PD Dr med Michael Osthoff is a senior consultant in the Division of Internal Medicine at University Hospital Basel, where he an internal medicine and infectious diseases specialist. His research interests include investigating the role of the complement system in infections and ischemia injury, therapeutic drug monitoring of β-lactam antibiotics and the implementation of antibiotic/diagnostic stewardship programmes in the hospital. Dr Osthoff is the leader of the “Translational Immunology and Diagnostic Stewardship” research group and Head of Clinical Research at the Division of Internal Medicine at University Hospital Basel.