New Assistant Professor Jason Peters Wins NIH Career Transition Award

Assistant Professor Jason Peters, in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, is focused on finding new genetic targets to kill bacteria.

There’s more than one way to kill bacteria—and in a world of increasing antibiotic resistance, researchers need to uncover as many ways as possible. The National Institutes of Health is helping Assistant Professor Jason Peters hit the ground running in pursuit of that goal with his new research program in the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy’s Pharmaceutical Sciences Division.