Helge Karch
Helge Karch (born July 6, 1953 in Otterberg ) is a German microbiologist .
Life
Helge Karch studied biology at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1973 to 1979 and received a doctorate in natural sciences at the Darmstadt Institute for Microbiology in 1982 . From 1982 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Hamburg .
In 1990 a call to the professorship at the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology at the University of Würzburg . In 2001 he moved to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and became director of the Institute for Hygiene at the Münster University Hospital .
The main research areas of Karch are fine typing and infection chain clarification in food and hospital infections. He is also very involved in the field of basic BSE research. In 2011 he identified the type HUSEC 41 of the EHEC intestinal bacterium .
Honors
- 1989: Award of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM)
- 1994: BioMerieux Diagnostic Award of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM)
- 1998: Main prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM)
- 1999: Prize of the HPR Seeliger Foundation
- 2009: Honorary doctorate ( doctor medicinae veterinariae honoris causa ) from the veterinary medicine department of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen
- 2013: Research award from the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
- 2013: Prize for hospital hygiene and infection prevention from the Robert Koch Foundation
Web links
- Helge Karch on the website of the University of Münster
- Helge Karch: Honor for services to hospital hygiene. Deutsches Ärzteblatt from September 27, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: "New director of the Hygiene Institute of the UKM establishes a new focus" ), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , July 2, 2001
- ^ "Honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen for Prof. Karch" ( Memento from November 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , July 17, 2009
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Karch, Helge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German microbiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Otterberg |