Carole Ayoub Moubareck BSc, PhD

Carole Ayoub Moubareck earned her Pharmacy Degree from the Lebanese American University in year 2000. She got a PhD from the Paris Descartes University in microbiology in 2005 and pursued a post-doctoral work at the Institut Pasteur of France. She was the associate director of the National Reference Center of Antibiotic Resistance in France from 2007 to 2009 and discovered a van-A type Staphylococcus aureus strain dependent on vancomycin for growth as well as a novel integron-associated GES variant in Acinetobacter baumannii. She taught microbiology at Saint Joseph University in Lebanon to pharmacy and laboratory students and since 2014 she is in Zayed University / Dubai campus. Her research interests are in controlling infectious diseases by monitoring the emergence and spread of resistant bacteria to antibiotics and characterizing the related resistance mechanisms.