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At the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Stewart Cole, director of the Global Health Institute at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, describes a new drug that offers a promising alternative in the fight against tuberculosis.

Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard News Office

Search for new tuberculosis drugs outlined

A new drug candidate that attacks the cell walls of tuberculosis bacteria offers a promising alternative in the fight against a disease that has been resurgent in the global age of AIDS, according to findings highlighted by a key researcher Friday (June 12) at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

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