Translational antimicrobial strategies at the end of the antibiotic era

Il 30/04/2013 ore 14.30 - 15.30

Aula Seminari IBP, Istituto di Biochimica delle Poteine, CNR Via P. Castellion, 111 80131 Napoli

George P. Tegos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pathology School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico affiliated with the Center of Molecular Discovery and a Visiting Faculty at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He was trained as a molecular microbiologist and received his PhD from University of Ioannina Greece. He completed postdoctoral fellowships in Molecular Microbiology (Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, 2001-2003) and Translational therapeutics in Dermatology (Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital, 2003-2006). His research interests lie in the areas of drug discovery and development of antimicrobial strategies with emphasis in photodynamic therapy (PDT) for infections, multidrug efflux systems as well as virulence and microbial pathogenesis. His research program is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense (DOD-DTRA). He has been an EU Marie Curie fellow in Biotechnology and a recipient of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC) award in Antimicrobials. He has published over 65 peer-reviewed articles, over 80 conference proceedings, book chapters and International abstracts, holds 3 patents served as ad hoc reviewer in a variety of journals and funding organizations in US, Europe and Asia and has delivered more than 40 invited presentations. He serves in the editorial boards of Virulence, Photochemistry & Photobiology and as a guest editor for Current Opinion in Pharmacology and Frontiers in Pharmacology.

Organizzato da:
Istituto di Biochimica delle Proteine

Referente organizzativo:
Donatella de Pascale
CNR - Istituto di biochimica delle proteine
Via P. Castellino, 1121 Napoli
d.depascale@ibp.cnr.it
081/6132314

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