Christoph Lange (doctor)

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Christoph Lange (* 1962 ) is a German infection medicine specialist.

Lange studied biology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and medicine at the University of Witten-Herdecke , where he received his doctorate in 1995. He then completed specialist training in internal medicine in Cape Town and Schleswig-Holstein and was a fellow in clinical infectionology at Case Western Reserve University from 1999 to 2001 . From 2001 he was at the Research Center Borstel (Leibniz Lung Center), where he became a senior physician for infectious diseases in 2002. In 2004 he completed his habilitation and became a senior physician, in 2009 senior physician and in 2014 medical director of clinical infectious diseases. Since 2005 he has headed the research group for clinical infectious diseases and the center for infectious diseases in Borstel / Lübeck. He also heads the tuberculosis department at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) founded in 2013. He has been a professor at the University of Lübeck since 2014. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and Associate Professor at the University of Namibia and the University of Chisinau in Moldova, where he received an honorary doctorate in 2013.

He is an advisor to WHO and Doctors Without Borders . In 2006 he and colleagues founded the Tuberculosis Network European Trialsgroup (TBNET), a European research network on tuberculosis.

He deals with the fight against excessively resistant and multi-resistant tuberculosis (M / XDR-TB), which spread particularly strongly in Eastern Europe, Asia and southern Africa in the 2000s. In 2014 he published a study with co-authors in the European Respiratory Journal.

In 2014 he received the science award : Society needs science .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Lange, I. Abubakar et al. a .: Management of patients with multidrug-resistant / extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: a TBNET consensus statement. In: European Respiratory Journal. 44, 2014, p. 23, doi : 10.1183 / 09031936.00188313 .
  2. ↑ Michael Schwibbe: DPZ researcher Eberhard Fuchs receives the science award from the Stifterverband. German Primate Center, press release from October 24, 2002 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on July 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German infection medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962