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Volkhard Kempf heads the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control at the University Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt. His research interests are focussed on bacterial pathogenicity (with a special emphasis on bacterial adhesion and bacterially-triggered hypoxic host-cell reactions). His work led to the identification of BadA as a member of the trimeric autotransporter adhesins and the general role of HIF-1 in human infections. He has a confirmed track report on the molecular analysis of multidrug-resistant pathogens in clinical patient cohorts.
Volkhard Kempf is the director of a large and fully certified infectious disease laboratory. All technologies (cultivation of pathogens, identification, mass spectrometry, antibiotic susceptibility testing, microscopy, electron microscopy, serology, molecular pathogen detection of bacteria and viruses, whole genome sequencing) is performed routinely. The diagnostic laboratories represent the German reference laboratory for Bartonella infections (appointed by the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin). Prof. Kempf is member of the German Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (appointed by the Federal Ministry of Health, Berlin).