Congratulations to Professor Nikki Weckman on the publication of her work on a quantitative CRISPR diagnostic for the deadly fungal pathogen, Candida auris, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering this week!
“This was a great team effort at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, especially with Justin Rolando and Anton Thieme,” says Professor Weckman.
“Candida species are increasingly resistant to antifungals and we need better diagnostics to quickly determine what drugs to use to treat these infections. I am excited to be carrying on research in this space at University of Toronto Engineering with my fantastic students, Amy Heathcote and Maya B., and great new collaborator Rob Kozak, funded by Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium.”
Read the full paper here.