Congratulations to Dr. Marcel Behr who has been awarded a 3-year grant by Cystic Fibrosis Canada for his project entitled: “Non-tuberculous mycobacteria in CF - new chemistries for old targets”.

Also, congratulations to two students in Dr. Behr’s lab who earned CF Canada studentships in the same competition! Nowrin Hoque is a Masters student who previously worked in the laboratory of Dr. Dao Nguyen. Nowrin is looking at whether new drugs developed to fight tuberculosis can also benefit patients with disease due to related non-tuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM), more commonly seen in CF patients. Jaryd Sullivan is also a Masters student. His project project involves developing a new method to determine whether drugs bind to the bacterial target, in collaboration with the Structural Genomics Consortium. The goal of his project is to discover novel compounds that can be used to combat NTM infections in CF patients.