Prof. Patrice Nordmann, 

Biography

  S-Paris Uni, France & University of Freibourg, Switzerland,  Member of the Scientific Advisory Board Professor Nordmann is the Chief of the Dept of Bacteriology-Virology at the Hospital Bicetre and Professor in Clinical Microbiology at the South-Paris Medical School (South-Paris University). He received MD and PhD degrees from Paris University in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He has also been trained as a postdoc in molecular genetics and biochemistry in the US (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and in Switzerland (Biozentrum,University of Basel). He founded a research unit „ Emerging Antibiotic Resistances“ at the Bicetre hospital- South-Paris Medical School in 1997 (becoming INSERM Unit 914 in 2008). Professor Normann is member of the editorial board of several journals including Emerging Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Future in Microbiology, and PlosOne. He is co-author of more than 535 peer-reviewed publications (ISI Web of Knowledge Microbiology, 2012: 18th /2,849 worldwide) mostly on biochemistry, genetics and epidemiology of emerging antibiotic resistance in Gram negatives. He is the recipient of several awards, the latest being the Medaille Louis Pasteur from the French National Academy of Sciences, Paris 2012 and the Excellence Microbiology and Infectious Diseases award from the European Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Berlin, 2013.

Research Interest

Bioinformatics & Systems Biology