Charlotte Niemeyer

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Charlotte Marie Elisabeth Niemeyer (born May 18, 1954 in Carlsdorf ) is a German pediatrician and cancer researcher .

Life

Niemeyer studied with a grant from the German National Academic Foundation at the Universities of Kiel , Nottingham and Freiburg i. Br. Medicine and was licensed as a doctor in 1980 . 1981 doctorate she H. Knauf in Freiburg with the work on the pharmacokinetics of hydrochlorothiazide in renal Dr. med. After positions as an assistant doctor or research assistant at the University Children's Hospital Kiel (today University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein ), the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ( Seattle ), the Children's Hospital Medical Center ( Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , Harvard Medical School , Boston ), the Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) and the Hannover medical School she received in 1989 the specialist for paediatrics . Since 1990, Niemeyer has been a senior physician at the Children's Clinic of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, where she qualified as a professor in 1993 with the thesis Treatment strategies for acute lymphocytic leukemia in childhood and in 2001 received a professorship for pediatric oncology and hematology . In 2010 she was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Act

Niemeyer's scientific merits lie in the field of those diseases of the bone marrow that are precursors of leukemia . She was able to make important contributions to the understanding of the development of the myelodysplastic syndrome in childhood and to analyze and describe genetic changes in rare blood cancers in childhood and adolescence - including juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML).

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Member entry of Charlotte Niemeyer (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.
  2. ^ T. Klingebiel: Outstanding Science Awards and Honors for Pediatric Oncologists. In: Clinical Pediatrics. 224, 2012, p. 121, doi : 10.1055 / s-0032-1309034 .
  3. Deutsche Hypothekenbank awards the Johann Georg Zimmermann Prize and Medal on February 5 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de); Retrieved February 4, 2013