Karl Hecht (physiologist)

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Karl Hecht (born February 15, 1924 in Wohlmirstedt ) is a German physiologist and space medicine specialist . He is professor emeritus for experimental and clinical pathological physiology at the Humboldt University in Berlin ( Charité ).

biography

Karl Hecht studied human medicine at the Charité from 1950 to 1955 and received his doctorate in 1956. His habilitation on chronobiological subjects took place in 1970. In 1971, Hecht was appointed full professor of the Physiology Section at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW), which was established in 1972 after the academy reform was renamed the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW). In 1977 he was appointed professor of physiology at the Charité of the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1991 he retired .

His research areas are neurophysiology , chronobiology , chronomedicine, emotional stress and health, sleep disorders, space medicine and space biology. Together with the group of the Berlin pharmacologist Peter Oehme , the relationships between the neuropeptide substance P and stress and adaptation were investigated and a general model for the effect of regulatory peptides was developed.

He has published over 750 original scientific papers on his research results in national and international journals and anthologies, as well as 34 scientific specialist and non-fiction books and 27 patents.

From 1972 to 1990, Hecht was coordinator of "Chronobiology and Chronomedicine" of the space medicine and biological working group in the Interkosmos program of the socialist countries and in 1988 founder of the directorate of the Institute for Pathophysiology of the Charité at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Memberships (selection)

Karl Hecht is a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences , Moscow, the International Academy of Astronautics , Paris, and has played a leading role in numerous scientific and medical organizations, especially in the former GDR .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Oehme , Karl Hecht: Reflections on substance P research. Reflections on Substance P Research. Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Berlin 2017 (with 50 references; online ).
personal data
SURNAME Pike, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Wohlmirstedt