A hopeful finding reported by the Rockefeller team is that a combination of two commonly used antibiotics, oxacillin and vancomycin, produced a synergistic effect and killed the vancomycin-resistant MRSA very efficiently in the test tube.
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem.
N.Y. The research described in the NEJM paper was supported in part by The Glickenhaus Foundation, The Bodman and Achelis Foundations, and the Cary L. Guy Foundation. Rockefeller began in 1901 as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first U.S. biomedical research center. Rockefeller faculty members have made significant achievements, including the discovery that DNA is the carrier of genetic information and the launching of the scientific field of modern cell biology. The university has ties to 19 Nobel laureates.