Ludmil Benov

Kuwait University, Kuwait

Title: Light and tetrapyrroles against antibiotic-resistant microbes

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Biography

Ludmil Benov is a full Professor in Biochemistry and editor of "Medical Principles and Practice". He is graduate of Sofia University (Biochemistry) and obtained a specialty of Biophysics and a Ph. D. degree from Medical Academy, Bulgaria. In 1988 was appointed as a chairman of the Department of Biophysics at Faculty of Medicine, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. After receiving a  Fogarty International Fellowship award was invited by Irwin Fridovich at Duke University Medical Center, USA, where he did research on oxidative cell damage and mechanisms of antioxidant  defense and worked on development and characterization of porphyrin-based superoxide-dismutase mimetics and photosensitizers. From 1998 is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University.  

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