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Experts from Stevens, Merck, publish joint paper, 'Biosynthetic Studies of Platensimycin'

Stevens Institute of Technology's Professor Athule B. Attygalle and his doctoral student Kithsiri B. Herath have collaborated with Merck Pharmaceutical's Dr. Sheo B. Singh on a study whose findings have been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, in a paper titled "Biosynthetic Studies of Platensimycin."

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