German Transplant Society
| German Transplant Society (DTG) |
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| purpose | Medical Society for Transplant Medicine |
| Chair: | Bernhard Banas |
| Establishment date: | 1992 |
| Number of members: | 600 |
| Seat : | Munich |
| Website: | dtg-online.de |
The German Transplantation Society (DTG) is an association with the task of promoting transplant medicine in Germany in organizational, clinical and scientific terms.
tasks
The society, founded in 1992 by Rudolf Pichlmayr, Arno Lison, Walter Land and Jürgen Kaden, has around 600 members from the fields of surgery , internal medicine , urology , anesthesia , immunology , pathology and coordinators. The DTG coordinates the tasks of the working group of German transplant centers and has a liaison function between the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (DSO), which is responsible for organ donation , Eurotransplant (ET) as organ mediation and the German Medical Association , patient associations and other international specialist societies.
The society organizes annual congresses and takes over the patronage for further events in the field of transplant medicine.
The company's official journal is Transplant International .
Awards ceremonies
In addition, the DTG awards prizes donated by various pharmaceutical companies in the area of transplants and organ donations. In detail they are:
- Rudolf Pichlmayr Prize of the German Transplant Society (named after Rudolf Pichlmayr (1932–1997); prize money 10,000 €)
- Prize to promote organ donation (prize money € 5,000)
- Astellas Research Prize (prize money € 10,000)
- Genzyme Research Prize (prize money € 10,000)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prizes for clinical medicine - Rudolf Pichlmayr Prize ( Memento from July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )