Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology

Banin Ehud

Biography

Dr. Ehud Banin, a returning scientist from the University of Washington, Seattle, is a Member of the Nano Cleantech Center at the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), and lecturer at the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Banin has shown how bacteria under attack by the immune system create biofilms, surface-associated bacterial communities encased in an extracellular polymeric matrix. Characterized by an innate resistance to immune system- and antibiotic-killing, microbial biofilms are a common and difficult-to-treat cause of medical infections.

Research Interest

 One of Banin's major objectives is to characterize how biofilms develop, with a focus on the role of iron as a signal in biofilm development. In addition, he would like to understand the mechanisms by which biofilms obtain increased resistance to antimicrobial therapy, and the role of inter- and intra-species cell-cell communication in mixed species biofilm interactions. The overriding goal of Banin's team is to discover novel compounds that effectively eradicate biofilms. Nanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Nanoparticles, Nanomaterial and Nanomedicine