Antibiotic Resistance

Dr. Kateryna Kon, MD, PhD, currently works at the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology at Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine as an Associate Professor. Dr. Kon received the Best Young Scientist of Kharkiv Award in 2007. She has ten years of teaching and fifteen years of research experience. She is an editorial board member of six international peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Kon's scientific contributions include more than 100 publications, 6 books and 18 scientific articles. The main focus of Dr. Kon’s research is antibiotic resistance in bacteria, coping with microbial resistance by plant essential oils and nanoparticles, microbiology of surgical and gynaecological infections, application of different statistical methods to analysis of biomedical data. Mahendra Rai is an internationally recognized scholar with extensive contributions to microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology research, particularly in the green synthesis of metal nanoparticles using fungi and their application as nano‑antimicrobials. His work is highly interdisciplinary, bridging microbiology, biotechnology, and nanoscience, and he is an active member of several scientific societies. He has received multiple national and international distinctions, including the Father T.A. Mathias Award from the All-India Association for Christian Higher Education and the Medini Award from the Government of India. Professor Rai has also held numerous visiting scientist and visiting professor positions across Europe, South America, and Asia, contributing to long‑standing research collaborations in countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and the United States. His sustained academic impact is reflected in his inclusion among the global top 2% of scientists in nanoscience and nanotechnology, and recognition as one of India’s leading researchers in biology and biochemistry, including a Biology and Biochemistry India Leader Award from Research.com.

• 1 Antibiotic Stewardship: Hospital Strategies to Curb Antibiotic Resistance2 Mechanisms of antibacterial resistance: shedding some light over these obscure processes?3 Signaling pathways sustaining antibiotic resistance4 Emerging drug resistance in bacterial enteric pathogens5 Carbapenem resistant gram-negative bacilli6 Antibiotic resistance: Can nanoparticles tackle the problem?7 Nanoarchitectonics used in anti-infective therapy8 Nanobiocomposites of metals as antimicrobial agents9 Nano/nitric oxide and antibiotic resistance10 Controlling bacterial antibiotic resistance using plant-derived compounds11 Essential oils: A natural alternative to antibiotics resistance12 Essential oil sensitivity of ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria13 Antimicrobial and antibiotic potentiating activity of essential oils from tropical medicinal herbs and spices14 Antimicrobial natural products against bacterial biofilms15 The potential use of bacteriophage therapy as a treatment option in a post antibiotic era16 Bacteriocins and its use for multidrug resistance bacterial control17 Marine natural products in fighting microbial infections18 Algae as a novel source of antimicrobial compounds: current and future perspectives