Most antibiotics on the market are becoming less effective. Arsenic may hold the answer to defeating resistant bacteria that have learned to fight back against the drugs designed to kill them.
Patience Ngozi Paul wants to understand how this therapeutic poison could be used to create the next generation of novel, more effective antibiotics against deadly Mycobacteria, which cause tuberculosis.
"Antibiotic resistance is a silent pandemic. And it's been with us for many years. If modern medicine is going to be effective, we have to address drug resistance." — Patience Ngozi Paul
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