Philip Cunningham, associate professor of biological sciences at Wayne State University, has developed new technologies to flag mutations in antibiotic drug targets having the potential to produce a strain resistant to antibiotics. Called combinatorial genetic technology, the process identifies molecules in bacteria that are essential for its multiplication, predicts how they might mutate and identifies antibiotics less susceptible to resistance. His WSU work is supported by a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. A photo of Cunningham is included.