Ghassan Matar
Professor and Vice Chairperson, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Biography
Dr. Ghassan M. Matar is a Professor and Vice Chairperson in the Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology & Microbiology, American University of Beirut. To present he published 101 articles in refereed international journals and received funding from various extramural sources. His research interests deal mainly with molecular mechanisms of resistance to antimicrobial agents in pathogenic bacteria, namely carbapenem resistance in ESBL and non-ESBL producing Enterobacteriaceae and assessment of combination using antimicrobial therapy with and without inhibitors or natural products, in infections caused by carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae harboring various carbapenemase encoding genes.