Ida Ørskov
Ida Ørskov (born January 8, 1922 in Copenhagen ; † April 10, 2007 ) was a Danish doctor and bacteriologist .
She was the daughter of the painter and engraver Johannes Georg Oppenheuser (1884–1961) and Helga Christensen.
She studied medicine in Copenhagen and graduated (candidate examination) in 1948. During her studies, she met her fellow student Frits Ørskov (1922-2015), whom she married in 1948 and with whom she had two children. Her husband was the son of the head of the state serum institute in Copenhagen, where she worked during her studies and in 1950 went to the institute's International Salmonella Center as an assistant. In 1956 she received her doctorate on Klebsiella . In her dissertation, she demonstrated gene exchange between bacteria in hospitals. In collaboration with her husband, she also dealt with other enterobacteria and ran a center for E. coli bacteria from 1964 to 1992 . In 1956/57 she was in Joshua Lederberg's laboratory in Madison (Wisconsin) and then worked with his laboratory on the classification of E. coli bacteria. There was also a long-term collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg im Breisgau , and from 1977 to 1982 the couple were visiting scientists at the National Institutes of Health at JB Robbins.
She published over 200 papers, mostly together with her husband. Both received the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1965 . In 1978 she received the Tagea Brandt travel grant.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ørskov, Ida |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish medic and bacteriologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 2007 |