Christoph Dehio

Full Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Director of National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) “AntiResist”

Christoph Dehio earned his diploma in Biology (1989) and PhD in Genetics (1992) from the University of Cologne, Germany. He was postdoctoral fellow (1993-1995) at Institut Pasteur in Paris, France and research group leader (1995-2000) at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, Germany. Since 2000 he is Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland. From 2016-2019 he was president of the National Research Project “Antimicrobial Resistance” (NRP72). Since 2020 he is director of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) “Antiresist: New approaches to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria” (2020-2032). His current research interests center around a better understanding of pathogen physiology in patients and developing axenic and tissue-based model systems mimicking patient environments for studying molecular mechanisms underlying antibiotic resilience.