Gerhard Hunsmann
Gerhard Hunsmann (born April 7, 1943 in Marl ) is a German physician and virologist , former scientific director of the German Primate Center (DPZ) in Göttingen. He is known as an AIDS researcher .
Hunsmann studied medicine at the University of Würzburg , where he received his doctorate in 1972. He was at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen and from 1969 at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg im Breisgau as head of the working group for tumor virology. He completed his habilitation in Freiburg and then went to the Institute for Immunobiology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . During this time he worked on retroviruses in mammals, leukemia viruses and immunodeficiency viruses in humans. In 1983 he became head of the virology and immunology department at the DPZ in Göttingen and in 1988 professor at the MHH in Hanover. From 1996 to 2001 he was Scientific Director of the DPZ. From 2002 he was also head of the Institute for Virology of the Medical Faculty of the University of Göttingen.
He dealt in particular with immunodeficiency viruses ( HIV and SIV ) (from pathogenesis to diagnosis to therapy and prevention), herpes viruses and prions ( BSE , CWD ), and before that with retroviruses and hepatitis viruses. As early as the 1980s, Hunsmann was considered one of the leading AIDS researchers in Germany.
Frank Kirchhoff is one of his more than 50 doctoral students .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Halter: We have to go the stony road . Article about AIDS research in Germany. On Spiegel Online from April 28, 1986.
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| SURNAME | Hunsmann, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German virologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marl |