Prof. Fritz Mühlschlegel joined the school in 2001. He is a member of the Biomedicine research group and the Kent Fungal Group. Fritz was born in Cologne, Germany and studied Medicine in Italy and at the University of Berlin in Germany where he was awarded an MD in Tropical Medicine. After a two and a half-year postgraduate training in Medical Microbiology at the Medizinische Hochschule (Medical Centre) in Hannover, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. W. A. Fonzi at Georgetown University, USA. In 1997 he became Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Mycology at the University of Würzburg, Germany where he also completed his specialist training in Medical Microbiology and was appointed Consultant. In 2001 he moved to the University of Kent to a position of Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Medical Microbiology followed by promotion to Reader in 2003. In 2007, he was appointed full Professor of Medical Microbiology. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that regulate microbial virulence and environmental sensing in fungal pathogens and parasites. He practices medicine in the East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust. Fritz has received several awards for his work, including the Career Development Award by the German Society for Medical Mycology (2000) and the venia legendi by the University of Würzburg (2001). In 2006 he was elected 'role model in academic medicine' by the British Medical Association.

Contact

Room: Ingr 426 Extension: 3988

email: F.A.Muhlschlegel@kent.ac.uk