NIH awards SMU chemistry professor and his team $3.5M to refine and test new TB treatments

DALLAS (SMU), September 19, 2023 – Southern Methodist University (SMU) chemistry professor John Buynak and his team have received a $3.5 million, 5-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to design and synthesize new antibiotics to fight some of the deadliest and most clinically challenging infections of the 21st century – drug resistant strains of bacteria that cause tuberculosis and leprosy.