Member info

• FACULTY:
  Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• DEPARTMENT:
  Department of Pharmaceutical analysis
• RESEARCH GROUP:
  Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology
• FUNCTION:
  ZAP
• WORK ADDRESS:
  Ottergemsesteenweg 460, 9000 Gent, Belgium
• PUBLICATIONS:
  ORCID
• SUMMARY:
  Tom Coenye leads the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology at Ghent University (Belgium, http://lpm.ugent.be). His research is centered around microbial biofilm formation (including biofilm formation on indwelling medical devices), the evaluation of novel strategies to prevent biofilm formation and/or eradicate existing biofilms, and the molecular basis of tolerance and resistance in biofilms. In addition, in his research group host-microbe interactions are studied and host- and microbiota directed approaches to treat bacterial infections and detrimental processes in the host due to the infection are explored. He was chair of the ESCMID Study Group on Biofilms from 2017 to 2021 and is one of the founding senior-editors of the journal ‘Biofilm’ (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biofilm/). For his work he received several awards and in 2019 and 2020 he was included on Clarivate’s list of Highly Cited Researchers.
• EMAIL:
  Tom.coenye@ugent.be
• WEBLINK:
  http://lpm.ugent.be