Dieter Bitter-Suermann

Dieter Bitter-Suermann (* 12. December 1937 in Berlin ) is a German microbiologist and emeritus professors .

Life

As the brother of Hinrich Bitter-Suermann , he also studied medicine in Würzburg , Vienna and Göttingen . During his studies he joined the Corps Nassovia Würzburg . In Göttingen he passed the state examination in 1965 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He began his scientific training at the Institute for Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz . There he completed his habilitation in 1972. Since 1976 he has been a senior physician, he has dealt with complement systems and inflammation mediators , especially with anaphylatoxic complement peptides and genetic complement defects. In 1987 he accepted the call to the C4 professorship for medical microbiology at the Hannover Medical School (MHH). From 1993 to 1997 he was the medical director of the university and spokesman for several special research areas . In 1998 he became chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. Since 2003, professor emeritus , he was replaced since 2004 President of the MHH and was on April 1, 2013. Christopher tree. From 2009 to 2012 he was President of the Medical Faculty Conference . He is a member of the Senate of the Trauma Foundation founded by Christian Krettek .

Honors (selection)

• Dr. Friedrich Sasse Prize of Berlin (1984)
• Heinz Karger Prize (Switzerland) (1987)
• Aronson Prize of the Berlin Senate (1990)
• Wilhelm-Hirte-Gedächtnispreis (1999)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2006)
• Ferdinand Cohn Medal of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (2006)
• Adolf Schmidt Medal of the Medical Faculty Conference (2013)

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Bitter-Suermann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 142/834
2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Alternative way of complement activation and the key function of the third complement component
3. ^ MHH news
4. ↑ MHH presidium page
5. ↑ Press release of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture from February 5, 2013
6. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt
7. ↑ Dieter Bitter-Suermann: The face of university medicine. Deutsches Ärzteblatt from April 12, 2013
8. ↑ Senate of the Trauma Foundation , accessed on September 5, 2014.
9. ↑ Ferdinand Cohn Medal - German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology eV ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.