Resistance Pathogens Group

The Resistance Pathogens Group is center in the combat of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) from multidisciplinary point of view using as a study model the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, due it importance in the actual public health. 

The principal aim in our research group is the identification of new targets and the antibiotic design through of structural, biophysics and biochemistry studies of proteins that participate in key bacterial processes. Mainly, we focus in the study of proteins involved in the synthesis and degradation of the cell wall. This biomacromolecule has an important rol in the cell growth, cell-cell communication and the host inmune response, between others.  Due these characteristics this macromolecule is ideal to development of new antibiotics through identification of new targets and its action mechanisms.