DOCTORAL CANDIDATE
Paola Monguilod

SUPERVISORS
Prof. Davy-Louis Versace, Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est (ICMPE)
Prof. Cyrille Boyer, University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Chemistry, Polymer Science, Nanomedicine, Photochemistry, Microbiology

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to human health. Indeed, by 2050 an estimated 50 million people could be affected annually, which will have a significant economic impact. The main proposal of this project is to design and investigate bioactive polymers capable of selectively killing bacteria. By synthesizing well-defined polymers, where each monomer unit is precisely placed in the polymer chain, it will be possible to correlate anti-microbial activities for a range of bacteria with the polymer architectures and structures. To achieve this goal, the most recent polymerization techniques, including photoinduced electron/energy transfer – reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerization, will be used to prepare these antimicrobial polymers.