This news item from the Cornell Chronicle is about: Cornell researchers are investigating compounds they identified that offer hope for effective new drugs against tuberculosis. “Tuberculosis now kills more people than HIV every year. It’s the leading infectious disease on the planet in terms of human death,” said Brian VanderVen, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and principal investigator of a new five-year, $2.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to study new compounds that he and colleagues identified and described. “We need new anti-tuberculosis antibiotics that work better and faster.”