JPIAMR 14th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Ulster University
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Improvement of drug/plant protection agent efficacy and/or specificity through chemical modifications (including hit to lead optimisation)
  2. Design and implementation of new strategies (including optimisation of drug doses) for improved application, efficacy and delivery of single or combinations of antimicrobials
  3. Design and implementation of innovative tools, including novel chemistry and/or new materials for improved application, efficacy and delivery of antimicrobials
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health Animal Health (including wild-life, livestock, fishes, and companion animals) Plants (including trees and crops)

• Type of studies/experimental approaches:

  in silico, in vitro, in vivo preclinical and clinical studies in human and in all veterinary settings studies in crop/plant settings, including field studies

• Keywords:

  Biosurfactants adjuvents excipients deuterated-antibiotics

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Professor of Microbial Biotechnology at the University of Ulster, UK. Has >35 years’ experience in academic and research institutions in Europe and internationally and had several active collaborative projects within the EU and other international academic and industrial establishments. Research interests include biosurfactant and bio-actives production and potential utilization in biomedical, pharmaceutical, health and cosmetics related applications. Has >320 publications (H-Index = 90) and >35,500 citation according to google scholar.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Projects looking to explore biosurfactants as antimicrobial compounds and as adjuvants or excipients to antibiotics or other antimicrobial drug disrupting molecules. I also am interested in producing deuterated antibiotics as method to overcome existing resistance and to rejuvenate the use existing antibiotics.

Ibrahim Banat

• Organisation: Ulster University
• Position: Professor of Microbial Biotechnology
• E-mail: im.banat@ulster.ac.uk
• Phone: 0044 2870123062
• Web: www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/im.banat.html