A research team led by chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother reports a new molecule's ability to fight drug-resistant bacteria in lab experiments and in mice with pneumonia and urinary tract infections. The researchers say fabimycin may one day be used to treat antibiotic-resistant infections in humans.
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by Dr. R S. Juvet, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, ASU Professor Emeritus Therald Moeller, past Chairman of the Department of Chemistry at ASU, died November 24 in Broken Arrow, OK, at the age of 84. During the 45 years Professor Moeller was active in teaching and research, he guided the laboratory research of 43 PhD students, 20 Postdoctoral Research Students, 11 MS, and 25 BS students for a total of 99 research students in inorganic chemistry. Of these students, 39 are now professors themselves at universities throughout the U.S. and in Taiwan, Spain, India, Japan, Brazil,...
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