{"id":16717,"date":"2018-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/concordia-professor-awarded-6m-for-uncovering-antibiotic-alternatives\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T05:00:00","slug":"concordia-professor-awarded-6m-for-uncovering-antibiotic-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/concordia-professor-awarded-6m-for-uncovering-antibiotic-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Concordia Professor Awarded $6M for Uncovering Antibiotic Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This funding, given over three years, will allow Adrian Tsang to create a library of lysozymes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"intro\">\n<p>Pr. Tsang&#8217;s team is developing a novel approach to combat the overuse of antibiotics on farms around the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The funding obtained by the director of Concordia\u2019s Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics will allow him to characterize and produce naturally occurring enzymes that kill bacteria, called lysozymes.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-million dollar funding comes from G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec, Genome Canada, as well as Elanco, one of the top animal feed producers in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelinknewspaper.ca\/article\/concordia-professor-awarded-6m-for-uncovering-antibiotic-alternatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read the complete article in Concordia&#8217;s The Link, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/204-en\/project\/lysozyme-feed-additives-to-improve-gut-health-and-productivity-of-food-animals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To learn more about Pr. Tsang&#8217;s project, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This funding, given over three years, will allow Adrian Tsang to create a library of lysozymes.\u00a0 Pr. Tsang&#8217;s team is developing a novel approach to combat the overuse of antibiotics&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}