Bacterial Enzymes as Targets for Drug Discovery: Meeting the Challenges of Antibiotic Resistance

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Dr. Kaurs specialties include Bioinformatics Structural Biology X-ray Crystallography and Rational Structure-Based Drug Design. Her research focuses on clinically relevant bacterial pathogens where a multidisciplinary approach is adopted to understand the antibacterial resistance mechanisms and design of novel inhibitory molecules. She has published more than 240 original publications reviews and chapters in the field of bioinformatics biophysical enzymatic activity and structural biology. Dr. Priyanka Sharma is a postdoctoral student with the biomedical Informatics department at the ICMR. Her work focuses on the field of computational biology involving structural bioinformatics and genomics of bacterial pathogens. She has published widely in the field of clinical bacteriology and is the author of over 30 research papers reviews and chapters. She has work experience in field of antimicrobial resistance due to enzymatic mutations.