Ada Yonath
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Title: Towards control of resistance to antibiotics
Biography
Biography: Ada Yonath
Abstract
Resistance to antibiotics and the spread of antibiotics metabolites are severe problems in contemporary medicine and ecology.rnStructures of complexes of eubacterial-ribosomes with antibiotics paralyzing them illuminated common pathways in inhibitory-actions, synergism, differentiation and resistance. Recent structures of ribosomes from a multi-resistant pathogensrnidentified features that can account for species-specific diversity in infectious-diseases susceptibility. These may lead to designrnof environmental-friendly degradable antibiotics, which will also be species-specific antibiotics-drugs, thus the basis for srnrevolution in the antibiotics field, which its current preference for wide-spectrum drugs. Thus, reducing resistance while protecting the environment and preserving the microbiome.
