Hansjörg Riehm

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Hansjörg Riehm (born March 2, 1933 in Herrenberg ) is a German pediatrician and former university professor who has made a name for himself in the research and treatment of hematological and oncological diseases in children.

Life

Riehm was born in Herrenberg in 1933. From 1952 to 1957 he studied human medicine in Tübingen , Kiel , Innsbruck and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1959. After his medical assistantship , he began his training in 1960, initially as a scientific assistant at the Pathological Institute of the Free University of Berlin . From 1967 he worked as an assistant doctor in the children's clinic of the Free University of Berlin and in 1967 passed the examination to become a specialist in pediatrics.

This was followed by a research stay at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York until 1969 , where he researched the biological characterization of the resistance of tumor cells to cytostatics. He completed his habilitation in 1970 on the topic of mechanisms of cellular resistance to antineoplastic antibiotics in in vitro studies and worked initially as a senior physician and from 1972 as professor and head of the department for pediatric oncology and hematology at the children's clinic at the Free University of Berlin. In 1984 he moved to the Hannover Medical School , where he took over the management of the pediatric-oncology department in the Pediatric and Human Genetics Center at the MHH.

After his retirement in 1997 he worked as a visiting professor at the Children Cancer Center of Dr. Boldrini in Campinas , Brazil.

honors and awards

  • 1973 Kind Philipp Prize for leukemia research
  • 1979 Johann Georg Zimmermann Prize for Cancer Research
  • 1985 Honorary membership of the Chilean Society for Hematology
  • 1986 German Cancer Prize , clinical part
  • 1989 honorary member of the Bohemian Society for Oncology
  • 1992 honorary membership of the Hungarian Society of Pediatrics
  • 1992 Honorary Doctorate from the Warsaw Medical University
  • 1994 honorary membership of the South African Society for Pediatrics
  • 1994 Honorary Doctorate from the Catholic University of Santiago de Chile
  • 1995 honorary membership of the Catalan Society of Pediatrics
  • 1996 German Cancer Aid Prize - for improving treatment options for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
  • 1997 honorary membership of the Society for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology
  • 1998 honorary membership of the Chilean Society for Pediatrics
  • 1998 Honorary membership of the Austrian Society for Hematology and Oncology
  • 2000 honorary membership of the Polish Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
  • 2001 honorary membership of the German Society for Pediatrics
  • 2002 Gold Medal for Cancer Research from the Second Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague
  • 2003 European Award from the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP)
  • 2003 United States Senate Congressional Record of Honor
  • 2007 Honorary Doctorate from the Medical University of Wrocław
  • 2007 Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
  • 2009 honorary membership of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  • 2009 Scientific Award from the University of Milan-Bicocca
  • 2011 Otto Heubner Prize of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine
  • 2012 Honorary Professor of the Medical Faculty of the Universidad de Chile
  • 2013 honorary member of the German Society for Hematology and Medical Oncology

The Hannover Medical School awards since 2000 every two years the "Hansjörg Riehm Award for excellence in pediatric oncology" help the children suffering from leukemia for research.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Heubner Prize to Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Riehm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Announcement of the DGKJ of September 28, 2011 (accessed on August 2, 2013)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dgkj.de  
  2. ^ Art instead of coal Tübingen scientist received the Hansjörg Riehm Prize for services in children's cancer research in mhh Info October / November 2004 (accessed on August 2, 2013) (PDF 132KB)
personal data
SURNAME Riehm, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician and former university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrenberg