Alexander Kekulé

Prof. Dr. Alexander Kekulé is a German physician and biochemist. He is Professor of Medical Microbiology and Virology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg since 1999 and Director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the University Hospital Halle (Saale). He studied philosophy, biochemistry and medicine at the Free University of Berlin and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He received his doctorate in 1990 in Biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin and in 1992 in medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1993 he qualified as a professor of Medical Microbiology / Virology at the Technical University of Munich. From 1994 to 1996 he worked at the Max von Pettenkofer Institute of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1997 - 1998 he was Deputy Head of the Institute of Virology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Kekulé is a specialist in microbiology, virology and infectious disease epidemiology and a medical specialist for laboratory medicine. In 1999 he accepted his appointment to become Chair of Medical Microbiology and Virology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.