The Wisconsin Infectious Disease Drug Discovery Project is focused upon the development of new anti-infective drug therapies. The goal is to identify novel compounds with antimicrobial activity against the emerging clinical fungal and bacterial pathogens. A three year pilot version of this program began in 2007, funded by the University of Wisconsin Medical Education and Research Committee (MERC) (MERC) as part of the Collaborative Health Sciences Program. The Wisconsin Infectious Disease Drug Discovery Project combines ten major laboratories:
- Professor David Andes, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health
- Professor Helen Blackwell, Department of Chemistry
- Professor Richard Hsung, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy
- Professor Nancy Keller, Department of Plant Pathology
- Professor Shannon Kenney, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health
- Professor Bruce Klein, Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Public Health
- Professor Janet Mertz, Oncology, School of Medicine and Public Health
- Professor Ben Shen, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy
- Professor Jon Thorson, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy
- Professor Rodney Welch, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine and Public Health
and two service cores: