New tools for the rapid diagnosis of human fungal infections are highly needed to provide the best therapeutic options and prevent the rise of antimicrobial resistance.
As the result of a fruitful collaboration between iBB and INESC-MN, under the auspices of the Associate Lab I4HB, a new step towards the development of a point-of-care fungal infection diagnostics tool was just published in Wiley’s VIEW.
Under the supervision of Miguel Cacho Teixeira, iBB / IST, and Diogo Caetano, INESC-MN and Flash Diagnostics, and with important contributions from the teams led by Cátia Caneira and Cristina Bárbara, ISAMB / FMUL, this is the first outcome of Maria Zolotareva’s PhD work, that bridges the gap between microbiology, genomics, nanotechnology and microelectronics!
Link to paper:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/VIW.20250015