Gesine Hansen

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Gesine Hansen (born October 8, 1965 in Witten ) is a German pediatrician and university professor at the Hannover Medical School .

Career

Hansen studied medicine at the Ruhr University Bochum and the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in London in the UK. From 1997 to 1999 she conducted research at the Institute for Immunology and Transplant Medicine at Stanford University in the USA. She was then appointed professor, senior physician and head of the Pediatric Pneumology and Allergology Section at the University Children's Clinic of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg and took over the leadership of a BMBF junior research group.

She has been a professor since 2005 and, since 2006, also medical director of the Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Hannover Medical School .

research

Hansen researches the mechanisms and therapies of allergies and immune tolerance . She deals with perinatal, immunological characteristics, i.e. the influence of various factors that take place around the time of birth on the child's allergy risk. Another focus of her is the development of a treatment for hereditary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) using genetically modified immune cells.

Hansen is also researching the genetic factors that are responsible for a severe course of an infection with the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children and is working on screening and therapeutic approaches based on them. In the observational study PedCAPNETZ study, in which nine study centers in Germany take part, she investigates the epidemiology , treatment and course of childhood pneumonia .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Happle, N. Lachmann, J. kuljec, M. Wetzke, M. Ackermann, S. Brennig, A. Mucci, AC Jirmo, S. Groos, A. Mirenska, C. Hennig, T. Rodt, JP Bankstahl , N. Schwerk, T. Moritz, G. Hansen: Pulmonary transplantation of macrophage progenitors as effective and long-lasting therapy for hereditary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. In: Science Translational Medicine. 6, 2014, p. 250ra113, doi : 10.1126 / scitranslmed.3009750 .
  2. ↑ Nico Lachmann, Christine Happle, Mania Ackermann, Doreen Lüttge, Martin Wetzke, Sylvia Merkert, Miriam Hetzel, George Kensah, Monica Jara-Avaca, Adele Mucci, Jelena Skuljec, Anna-Maria Dittrich, Nils Pfaff, Sebastian Brennig, Axel Schambach, Doris Steinemann, Gudrun Göhring, Tobias Cantz, Ulrich Martin, Nicolaus Schwerk, Gesine Hansen, Thomas Moritz: Gene Correction of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Repairs the Cellular Phenotype in Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis. In: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2013, p. 131126070906004, doi : 10.1164 / rccm.201306-1012OC .
  3. ↑ Martin Wetzke, Matthias Volkmar Kopp, Jürgen Seidenberg, Christian Vogelberg, Tobias Ankermann, Christine Happle, Gesche Voigt, Holger Köster, Thomas Illig, Christiane Lex, Antje Schuster, Marcus Panning, Grit Barten, Gernot Rohde, Tobias Welte, Gesine Hansen: PedCAPNETZ - prospective observational study on community acquired pneumonia in children and adolescents. In: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 19, 2019, doi : 10.1186 / s12890-019-1013-5 .
  4. ^ Members. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  5. ^ Prize winners of the Eva Luise Köhler Research Prize - Eva Luise and Horst Köhler Foundation. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .
  6. ↑ winners of DGAKI prices - DGAKI. Accessed June 1, 2020 (German).
  7. ^ Adalbert Czerny Prize. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Gesine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten