Reaction: Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics, a Call for Chemists

Abstract

Michelle F. Richter received her BS in biochemistry from Union College in 2011. She is now a National Science Foundation graduate fellow and member of the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program in the Hergenrother laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she is working toward a PhD in chemistry. Paul J. Hergenrother received his BS in chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 1994 and his PhD in chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. After an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. Stuart Schreiber at Harvard University, in 2001 he joined the faculty at UIUC, where he is now the Kenneth L. Rinehart Jr. Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry.