Jürgen van de Loo

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Jürgen CW van de Loo (born April 22, 1932 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † August 13, 2016 in Münster) was a German physician .

Life

Van de Loo studied human medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck . As a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation , he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. In 1965 he was certified as a specialist in internal medicine at the University Hospital Cologne , and in 1967 he completed his habilitation there.

Jurgen van de Loo was 1971 adjunct professor at the University of Cologne and 1976 ibid for Professor appointed. Shortly afterwards he moved to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and held the chair for internal medicine with a focus on hematology , hemostaseology and oncology at the Münster University from 1976 to 1997 . He was also director of the Institute for Arteriosclerosis (LIfA) from 1978 to 1984 . From 1986 he was the founder of the Interdisciplinary Center for Blood Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Transplantation in Münster. He chaired the Münsterland Tumor Center (1993–1997) and chaired the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (1995–1997).

From 1991 to 1992 he was chairman of the German Society for Internal Medicine DGIM and in 1992 president of the 98th Congress of Internal Medicine in Wiesbaden. In 1997 he was made an honorary member of the German Society for Internal Medicine.

Since 1993 he has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Leopoldina .

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2002 for his commitment to the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald and especially its medical faculty after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since 1994 van de Loo has been chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for Community Medicine , which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Research. He anchored the research focus community medicine / community dentistry at the University of Greifswald. In 2011 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Jürgen van de Loo , FAZ , August 16, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c Edmund von Pechmann: Thanks to one of the rescuers: Prof. Jürgen van de Loo from Münster receives an honorary doctorate in medicine from Greifswald , Science Information Service , March 1, 2002
  3. ^ Obituary by Jürgen van de Loo , FAZ , August 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Jürgen van de Loo at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on August 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ Commitment to patients, research and development East: Federal Cross of Merit for Prof. Jürgen van de Loo , Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität , March 25, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Loo, Jürgen van de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loo, Jürgen CW van de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2016
Place of death Muenster