Without efficient antibiotics small infections can develop into life threatening conditions. The idea of Seijsing’s proposal is to find out if it is possible to use enzymes found in nature as a novel treatment against bacterial infections.

Johan Seijsing vann vetenskapspitchtävlingen "Skolar Awards" vid entreprenörskonferensen "Slush" i Helsingfors. Foto: Vilja Pursiainen, Kaskas Media
Johan Seijsing vann vetenskapspitchtävlingen "Skolar Awards" vid entreprenörskonferensen "Slush" i Helsingfors. Foto: Vilja Pursiainen, Kaskas Media

To turn this idea into action Seijsing and his colleagues will create a large library of different enzyme variants on tiny chips and test their ability to target for example several flesh eating bacteria.

Seijsing is at a loss for words. “I didn’t think I was going to win. The other pitches were so good.”

“With this money I can continue doing this research and start putting the machine for creating the enzyme library together and engineering these enzymes. The goal is to get some good research out”.

 

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