Prof. Jacob Moran-Gilad is a Medical Doctor specialised in Clinical Microbiology and Public Health. He is a Full Professor at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. His current research involves the development and validation of laboratory methods for diagnosis of infectious diseases with emphasis on molecular microbiology, microbial whole genome sequencing, microbiomics and metagenomics. He has a particular interest in
Biography
Prof. Jacob Moran-Gilad is a Medical Doctor specialised in Clinical Microbiology and Public Health. He is a Full Professor at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. His current research involves the development and validation of laboratory methods for diagnosis of infectious diseases with emphasis on molecular microbiology, microbial whole genome sequencing, microbiomics and metagenomics. He has a particular interest in One Health, antimicrobial resistance and disease surveillance. Prof. Moran-Gilad has published over 150 papers in high-quality journals and has been awarded numerous competitive grants. Prof. Moran-Gilad is also the Director of Clinical Microbiology at the Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem. His lab provides the entire range of microbiology services to the Hadassah hospital network, including traditional, molecular, and genomic microbiology. Prof. Moran-Gilad hold several advisory roles at the national and international levels. He has been the Programme Director of ECCMID, the world’s premier congress on microbiology and infectious diseases (>15K participants), since 2021.