Nir-Paz Ran
Visiting Professor, Microbiology/Infectious Diseases
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School of Medicine
Visiting Professor
Academic Qualifications
| Qualification | Year | Awarding Institution | Department |
| Post Doc | 2007 | UC Berkeley | Molecular and Cell Biology |
| Specialist in Infectious Diseases | 2003 | Hadassah Hebrew University Medical center | Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases |
| Specialist in Medicine | 2000 | Hadassah Hebrew University Medical center | Medicine |
| MD | 1995 | Hebrew University |
Employment History
| Period of employment | Employer | Location | Position | |
| From | To | |||
| 2021 | Now | Hebrew University | Jerusalem | Professor |
| 2014 | 2021 | Hebrew University | Jerusalem | Associate professor |
| 2010 | 2014 | Hebrew University | Jerusalem | Senior lecturer |
Publications
| Year | Title | Other authors | Journal and Publisher / Conference | Vol. | Pages |
| 2022 | Phage Therapy in Israel, Past, Present, and Future | Amit Rimon , Daniel Gelman, Ortal Yerushalmy, Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer, Eyal Katvan, Ran Nir-Paz, Ronen Hazan | Phage (new Rochelle) | 3 | 85-94 |
| 2021 | Clinical Phage Microbiology: a suggested framework and recommendations for the in-vitro matching steps of phage therapy | Daniel Gelman, Ortal Yerushalmy, Sivan Alkalay-Oren, Chani Rakov, Shira Ben-Porat, Leron Khalifa, Karen Adler, Mohanad Abdalrhman, Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer, Saima Aslam, Robert T Schooley, Ran Nir-Paz, Ronen Hazan | Lancet Microbe | 2 | E555-e563 |
| 2021 | BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Effectiveness among Health Care Workers | Shmuel Benenson, Yonatan Oster, Matan J Cohen, Ran Nir-Paz | N Engl J Med | 384 | 1775-1777 |
| 2020 | Decreased prevalence rate of respiratory pathogens in hospitalized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: possible role for public health containment measures? | Yonatan Oster, Ayelet Michael-Gayego, Mila Rivkin, Leonid Levinson , Dana G Wolf, Ran Nir-Paz | Clin Microbiol Infect | 27 | 811-812 |
| 2020 | The Israeli Phage Bank | Ortal Yerushalmy, Leron Khalifa, Naama Gold, Chani Rakov, Sivan Alkalay-Oren, Karen Adler, Shira Ben-Porat, Reut Kraitman, Niv Gronovich, Kerem Shulamit Ginat, Mohanad Abdalrhman, Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer, Ran Nir-Paz, Ronen Hazan | Antibiotics (basel) | 9 | 269 |
| 2019 | Successful Treatment of Antibiotic-resistant, Poly-microbial Bone Infection With Bacteriophages and Antibiotics Combination | Ran Nir-Paz, Daniel Gelman, Ayman Khouri , Brittany M Sisson, Joseph Fackler, Sivan Alkalay-Oren, Leron Khalifa, Amit Rimon, Ortal Yerushalmy, Reem Bader, Sharon Amit, Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer, Matthew Henry , Javier Quinones, Francisco Malagon, Biswajit Biswas, Allon E Moses, Greg Merril, Robert T Schooley, Michael J Brownstein, Yoram A Weil, Ronen Hazan | Clin Infect Dis | 69 | 2015-2018 |
| 2019 | The Clinical Presentation of Pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infections-A Single Center Cohort | Oren Gordon, Yonatan Oster, Ayelet Michael-Gayego, Rachel S Marans, Dina Averbuch, Dan Engelhard, Allon E Moses, Ran Nir-Paz | Pediatr Infect Dis J | 38 | 698-705 |
| 2015 | Pregnancy-associated listeriosis: many beliefs, few facts | Hila Elinav, Anat Hershko-Klement, Ido Solt, Daniel Glikman, Ran Nir-Paz | Lancet Infect Dis | 15 | 1128-1130 |
| 2014 | Pregnancy-associated listeriosis: clinical characteristics and geospatial analysis of a 10-year period in Israel | Hila Elinav, Anat Hershko-Klement, Lea Valinsky, Josef Jaffe, Anat Wiseman, Hila Shimon, Eyal Braun, Yossi Paitan, Colin Block, Rotem Sorek, Ran Nir-Paz; Israeli Listeria Study Group | Clin Infect Dis | 59 | 953-961 |
| 2014 | Exposure to ertapenem is possibly associated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa antibiotic resistance | M J Cohen, C S Block, A E Moses, R Nir-Paz | Clin Microbiol Infect | 20 | O188-O196 |
Exhibitions
Research Projects
| Date | Title | Funded by | Project Role* |
| 2020-2021 | Burkholderia cepacia complex Registry and Bacteriophage Library. | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Co-PI |
| 2020-2023 | Towards Precision and personalized infectious- diseases therapy: harnessing bacteriophages and mathematical models | ISF Israeli Science foundation grant for personalized medicine | Co-PI |
| 2019-2022 | Play chess with bacteria: Progressing Personal Phage Therapy in Humans. | Rosetrees Trust | Co-PI |
Academic Consulting Services/Councils/Boards/Editorial Committees
| Period | Organization | Title of Position or Service |
| 2021-Now | ESCMID -ESGNTA | Chair of Executive committee |
| 2017-2020 | ESGMI ESCMID | Chair of EC |
| 2020-Now | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2022-Now | Frontiers in Cellular and infection Microbiology | Specialty Section of clinical Microbiology chief editor |