The Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases

Early this September, Bar Ilan's Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced (BINA) hosted the conference titled Infectious Diseases Symposium: Innovative Approaches to Diagnosis and Research. Spanning three days, the conference’s international scientific committee comprised Prof. Amos Danielli of the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials bio-engineering track, Prof. Avi Peretz of the Baruch Padeh Medical Center and Bar Ilan’s Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Yonat Shemer of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Prof. Eli Schwartz of Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University.

Dozens of local and international lab heads, virologists, internal medicine physicians, infectious disease experts, clinical chemists, lab technicians and biomedical engineers participated in the conference, where studies and solutions were presented, designed to lead to faster, more efficient diagnosis of infectious diseases in general, and resistant bacterial pathogens in particular. With the national health system facing rising rates of resistant bacterial pathogens and dealing extensively with the eradication of hospital-acquired infections, the conference is highly important.

The conference featured studies on intrauterine infections’ early detection and treatment, Flavivirius diagnosis, and bacterial and parasite infectious diagnostic challenges, as well as the detection of the next X disease. During the conference, Prof. Danielli gave a talk about “Rapid and highly sensitive diagnosis of Zika, dengue, and West-Nile viruses infection using Magnetic Modulation Biosensing technology”. Another Faculty representative, Dr. Michael Margulis, a graduate of the Laboratory for Biomedical Imaging and Sensing, also gave a talk about “Saliva-based diagnosis of respiratory diseases”.