New-Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase

Katharina Fromm is Full Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. After her studies of Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, and a stay at Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Industries Chimiques de Strasbourg (now ECPM) in Strasbourg, France, she did her PhD at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, with Prof. Evamarie Hey-Hawkins (now University of Leipzig) on organometallic compounds with metal-phosphor double bonds. After postdocs with Prof. J. Strähle, Prof. J.M. Lehn, and Profs. D. Fenske and R. Ahlrichs, she got her habilitation with Prof. A. F. Williams at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Katharina then got a research professorship position with the SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation) at the University of Basel, Switzerland, before joining the University of Fribourg in 2006.

Justine Schwarte studied chemistry first at the European School of Chemistry, Polymers and Materials (ECPM, Strasbourg, France), and received then an engineer diploma in organic, bioorganic and therapeutic Chemistry from the High National School of Chemistry of Mulhouse (ENSCMu, France). She is pursuing her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, about the development of new chemical tools against antimicrobial resistance.