Alexander Titz becomes Professor for Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Alexander Titz (Alumnus / Dept. Chemistry) has been appointed as Professor for Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Saarland University.
Alexander Titz studied chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Bordeaux. In April 2008, he received his doctorate from the University of Basel on the subject of the medicinal chemistry of carbohydrate-protein interactions. He was a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg from October 2010 until July 2013. Since 2013 he has been the head of the research group ‘Chemical Biology of Carbohydrates’ at the HIPS and since 2018 a junior professor at Saarland University.
Alexander Titz’s research focuses on the synthetic development of novel drug candidates and diagnostics for bacterial infections. Starting from the natural carbohydrate receptors of the bacterial proteins, glycomimetics are produced using organic-chemical methods, which can prevent the bacteria from attaching to the host and block the biofilms that are involved in chronic infections.
We congratulate Alexander Titz and wish him all the best!