NYU Chemistry Professor Nate Traaseth and School of Medicine colleagues Da-Neng Wang and Shohei Koide received an R01 grant from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a study entitled, "Transport Mechanisms and Inhibition of Efflux Pumps in Pathogenic Organisms." This grant will support research over five years to pursue the long-term goal of developing novel therapeutics against the human pathogen methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A major strength of this research is the interdisciplinary team of scientists who possess expertise in membrane protein biophysics (Traaseth; Wang), NMR spectroscopy (Traaseth), cryo-electron microscopy (Wang), antibody engineering (Koide), S. aureus biology (Victor Torres), organic chemistry and peptide design (Paramjit Arora), and computational chemistry (Yingkai Zhang).