Medic Axel Hamprecht appointed

Prof. Dr. Axel Hamprecht has been appointed Professor of Medical Microbiology at the Department of Human Medicine. He is also Director of the University Institute of Medical Microbiology and Virology at the Klinikum Oldenburg.

Hamprecht was previously a professor at the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene at the University of Cologne. He studied human medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Bordeaux (France) and earned his doctorate in Berlin in 2005. After a junior doctor post at the Department for Dermatology at the University of Bonn he moved to the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene at the University Hospital Cologne in 2008. Hamprecht became a consultant in 2014. Following his Habilitation he was appointed to a professorship on Antibiotic Resistance of Gram-Negative Pathogens at the University of Cologne in 2018. His research focuses on the genetic background of multidrug resistance and the transmission of genes encoding beta-lactamases. Additionally, he works on the development of new methods for the rapid detection of multidrug-resistant organisms.