Mai Mohammed Al-Ghanem
Ministry of Municipality and Environment, Qatar
Title: The marine environment, a novel source of antimicrobial metabolites
Biography
Biography: Mai Mohammed Al-Ghanem
Abstract
Modern medicine relies heavily on antibiotics to combat bacterial infections. Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to humanity and a challenge to modern medicine. The development of new antimicrobials is urgently needed before the current antibiotics used become compromised by antibiotic resistance. Microbial species of natural environments are a rich source of novel compounds and secondary metabolites with unique bioactive properties and an excellent ground for investigation for future drug discovery and the expansion of the pharmaceutical pipeline.