Hermann Wagner (microbiologist)

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Hermann Wagner (born May 20, 1941 in Freudenstadt ) is a German physician , former professor of medical microbiology and immunology and former dean of the medical faculty of the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Wagner studied medicine at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1967. After a research stay in Melbourne , Australia , he completed a Ph. D. in 1973 . He continued his research with Paul Klein at the Institute for Microbiology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1973 to 1983.

In 1978 he received his habilitation in Mainz . In 1983 he accepted an appointment at the University of Ulm , as Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Director of the Institute for Microbiology. In 1989 he moved to the Technical University of Munich, where he researched and taught as head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene. Wagner retired at the end of 2008.

Act

His main area of ​​work is mechanisms of the protective immune response against pathogenic infections. First he analyzed the mechanisms of activation of T killer cells. He then studied the role of bacterial superantigens in this system. Since 1995 he has been working on the immunobiology of toll-like receptors (TLRs). He was one of the first to recognize that special CpG motif-containing bacterial / viral DNA activates the cells of the innate immune system via TLR9, while TLR7 or TLR8 recognizes uridine-rich RNA.

During his time in Ulm, he co-founded and supervised the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) "Lymphohaemopoiesis" as spokesman . In Munich he developed "Infection Immunology" as one of the scientific focal points of his faculty. He participated in the founding of the three SFBs of his faculty and has been spokesman for SFB 456 "Target structures for selective tumor interventions" since 1999. Wagner is one of the most cited immunologists in Europe. After his retirement he was a. a. Senior Fellow of the Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, and guest professor of the Medical Faculty of the University of Marburg.

In honorary positions he worked as President of the German Society for Immunology , as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Technical University of Munich and as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Würzburg Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF).

honors and awards

Wagner is the recipient of the Behring Kitasato Prize (1988). In 2001 he received an honorary doctorate from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 2003 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . The German Society for Immunology made him an honorary member in 2005. Wager was admitted to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as a full member in 2007. In the same year he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit by the Bavarian Prime Minister . Wagner has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2008 . In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Schütz: New members elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In: Science Information Service of March 6, 2007
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Hermann Wagner at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 28, 2016.
  3. ^ EB: Names and Messages . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 110 , no. 35-36 , September 2, 2013, pp. A-1635 / B-1443 / C-1425 .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician (immunologist) and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Freudenstadt