DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña (PCOO/Manila Bulletin File photo)
DOST Secretary Fortunato T. de la Peña announced Friday, May 28, that the agency “has approved for implementation” the new R&D projects of the DOST-Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) as part of the VIP program.
These are the following:
-Combination Therapy: Lytic Bacteriophages and Plant Extracts against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria;
-Detection of Food and Water-borne Bacterial Pathogens using Phage-based Diagnostics;
-De novo synthesis of a non-Infective Zika Pseudovirus as reference for diagnostics and vaccines development;
-Development of Antibody Test Kits for COVID-19 using Enzyme Immunoassay; and