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Grant to work on bird-flu drugs
News.com.au (Australia)
July 24, 2006

AUSTRALIAN researchers have won funding from the British Medical Research Council (BMRC) to develop new drugs to better safeguard against resistant flu viruses, including bird flu.

Jennifer McKimm-Breschkin, of CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, and British researcher Andrew Watts, of the University of Bath, will share equally in a $1 million BMRC grant over three years to tackle pandemic flu.

Dr McKimm-Breschkin is an expert in testing inhibitors of flu and evaluating drug resistance.

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