Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt
University of Tübingen
Biography
Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt holds a degree in Microbiology from the University of Bonn.
After her PhD in 1997 she joined the Anti-Infectives Research Department of Bayer HealthCare, leading hit and lead discovery teams for 8 years. In 2004, she co-founded the anti-infective biotech company AiCuris, Wuppertal, Germany. In 2010 she returned to academia as a professor for Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Düsseldorf, and in 2014 she became Chair of the Department of Microbial Bioactive Compounds at the University of Tübingen.
She is speaker of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TRR261 ‘Cellular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Action and Production’ and co-speaker of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Controlling Microbes to Fight Infection’. Heike is particularly interested in the molecular mechanisms of new antibacterial natural products and the operation modes of novel antibiotic targets.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Natural Product Reports (NPR)