Hans-Peter Zenner

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Hans-Peter Zenner (born November 13, 1947 in Essen ) is a German medic .

Life

After studying medicine in Würzburg, Paris and Mainz, Hans-Peter Zenner received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation in Würzburg in 1974 and completed his habilitation there in 1981 on the "use of monoclonal antibodies against laryngeal cancer cells" .

In 1986 he was appointed professor at the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , and in 1988 he was appointed professor for ENT medicine at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

Act

In 1987, Zenner was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for describing the cochlear amplification mechanism . After moving to Tübingen, together with colleagues, he began developing a hearing implant to compensate for the pathological cochlear amplification mechanism and was able to carry out the first implantations in 1998. From 2009 to 2010 he was President of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . Zenner has been an elected member of the Presidium of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2011 .

honors and awards

literature

  • Hans Peter Zenner: Inner ear hearing loss: Electronic hearing implants for surgical treatment . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . No. 98: 4 , Jan 26, 2001, pp. 169-174 .
  • Rock'n Roll makes hair dance: Faculty of Medicine awards Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Zenner the Jacob Henle Medal . In: insight . Human Medicine Department Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, August 2002, p. 18-19 .

Individual evidence

  1. Duties and Offices . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , 2011, 108 (3)
  2. ^ Member entry by Hans-Peter Zenner (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 27, 2016.