Hans Wilhelm Doerr

Hans Wilhelm Doerr (born January 15, 1945 in Arnstadt ) is a German virologist .

Career and work

Doerr attended the humanistic grammar school in Berlin-Steglitz , Kiel and Heidelberg (Abitur 1964). After one year of basic military service, he studied medicine in Heidelberg, Mannheim, Kiel and Munich between 1965 and 1970. In 1971 he received his doctorate summa cum laude.

He was initially a medical assistant at the university clinics in Munich and Freiburg. From 1972 to 1977 he was a research assistant at the Hygiene Institute at the University of Freiburg . In 1977 he went to the Institute for Medical Virology at the University of Heidelberg as a senior physician , where he completed his habilitation in 1978 in Medical Microbiology and General Hygiene. In 1981 he received a C2 professorship for medical virology at the University of Heidelberg.

From 1985 he was professor and director of the Institute for Medical Virology at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Doerr researched and taught on the basis of virological health care. He has written and edited several textbooks and book chapters, including a standard textbook on medical virology. As an author and co-author, he has published a large number of articles in international, scientific journals on the diagnosis, epidemiology and prevention of endemic and imported viral diseases (including the discovery of the SARS coronavirus through cultivation in cell culture and antibody detection), on therapy and therapy resistance ( HIV , herpes viruses , SARS ) and on the pathogenesis of cytomegaly . His students include u. a. Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit . In 2012 he retired.

Between 1996 and 2001 he was President of the German Association to Combat Virus Diseases.

Doerr has been a member of the Heidelberg Wingolf since 1965 .

Honors

• 2012: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online
• HWDoerr and WHGerlich (eds.): Medical Virology - Basics, Diagnostics, Prevention and Treatment of Viral Diseases. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2010 (2nd edition)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Institute for Medical Virology: List of publications. (No longer available online.) Hans Wilhelm Doerr, January 2, 2011, archived from the original on October 25, 2018 ; accessed on October 26, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ VAW (Ed.): Vademecum Wingolfiticum. 24th edition. Hanover 2005.