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Metabolic Engineering to Fight Malnutrition: Vitamin A Drug Delivery Project
Speaker: Doug Watson, Research Scientist, Combinatorial Sciences group, Center for Advanced Drug Research, Biosciences Division
Malnutrition in the developing world is responsible for a vicious and deadly
cycle of infections that deprive the body of nutrition needed to develop a
healthy immune system. Creative new approaches are needed to get life-saving
nutrients to places where they are needed most. To address this global
health problem, drug delivery scientists at SRI are working on an innovative
approach to deliver Vitamin A to children so that their bodies are able to
fight off diarrhea-causing infections. In this podcast, researcher Doug
Watson explains a project to engineer probiotic bacteria so that it produces
lifesaving Vitamin A. Since bacteria can be grown anywhere, the goal is to
develop a vitamin A therapy that can be produced and used locally wherever
it's needed.
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Date: 09/12/2011
Duration: 07:38
Size: 6.99MB
Related topics:
Center for Advanced Drug Research
Biosciences
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R&D Divisions