UT Arlington professor awarded $1.9 million to study hospital infection
A UT Arlington microbiologist developing a treatment for one of the most widespread hospital infections in the U.S. has been awarded $1.9 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Julian Hurdle, an assistant professor of biology, plans to study the effect of reutericyclin compounds on the bacteria Clostridium difficile or C. difficile. His co-investigator on the project is Richard Lee, a medicinal chemist and faculty member at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. C. difficile is the leading