Klaus-Dieter Zang

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Klaus-Dieter Zang (born July 23, 1935 in Ludwigshafen ) is a German professor of human genetics who was appointed to the Saarland University in 1973 and retired there in 2003 .

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Klaus-Dieter Zang was born on July 23, 1935 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein as the son of a food chemist . After graduating from high school in ancient languages ​​in February 1954, he began studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1955 . After the physics , he worked as a research assistant and doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry . In 1961, Zang passed the state examination in medicine and received his doctorate with a doctoral thesis supervised by Nobel Prize winner Adolf Butenandt . After completing his time as a medical assistant, he received his license to practice medicine and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Experimental Medicine at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, headed by Gerhard Ruhenstroth-Bauer . At the same time he worked as a freelancer in the development department of Beckman Instruments , where he was involved in the development of a two-beam microscope photometer . This work resulted in a patent for a novel watch .

From 1963 to 1967 Zang was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in the Department of Neuropathology , which was headed by Gerd Peters . There he mainly dealt with tumor cytogenetics and Down syndrome . From 1967 to 1973 Zang headed a junior research group for medical genetics and cytogenetics at the same institute . During this time he and his colleagues succeeded in proving a tumor-typical chromosome abnormality in human meningioma .

In 1971, Zang qualified as a professor in the subject "Medical Genetics". He held lectures in this subject at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received a teaching position for human biology and human genetics from the University of Regensburg .

In 1973, Zang was appointed to the newly founded chair for human genetics at the Medical Faculty of Saarland University in Homburg . Although he later received a call from the University of Bonn , he stayed in Saarland and determinedly expanded the Institute for Human Genetics. His research projects have been funded over the years by foundations , the EU and the German Research Foundation with many millions of euros. Zang supervised over 100 doctoral and diploma students in biology and medicine and led twelve of his employees to habilitation . As part of academic self-government , he worked for years in the Senate and the research commission of the university and from 1979 to 1981 he was Vice President for Research . For many years he was also a liaison professor for the German National Academic Foundation and expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Research , the EU and several foundations. In 1996 Zang initiated the Collaborative Research Center “Molecular Pathology of Proliferation” and was its spokesman until 2001.

Even after his retirement , Zang still prepared judicial parentage reports and reports in accordance with the Transsexual Act .

Of the German Medical Association Zang in 2000 for his many contributions to the medical has been training the Ernst von Bergmann plaque awarded.

Fonts (selection)

  • KD Zang, H. Singer: Chromosomal constitution of meningiomas . Nature, 216 (5110), 1967, pp. 84-85.
  • E. Back, KD Zang: Quantitiative studies on the arrangement of human metaphase chromosomes . Cytogenetics 8 (4), 1969, pp. 304-314.
  • H. Zankl, KD Zang: Chromosome size and hypodiploidy . Nature 228 (5273), 1970, pp. 778-779.
  • H. Zankl, KD Zang: Cytological and cytogenetical studies in human brain tumors. 4. Identification of the missing G-chromosomes in human meningiomas as no. 22 by fluorescence technique . Human Genetics 14 (2), 1972, pp. 167-169.
  • KD Zang: Cytological and cytogenetical studies on human meningioma . Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics 6 (3), 1982, pp. 249-274.
  • KD Zang (Ed.): Clinical Genetics of Alcoholism. Kohlhammer-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 978-3-17-008103-1 .
  • WI Steudel, R. Feld, W. Henn, KD Zang: Correlation between cytogenetic and clinical findings in 215 human meningiomas . Acta Neurochirurgica Suppl. 65, 1996, pp. 73-76.
  • W. Henn, KD Zang: Mosaicism in Turner syndrome . Nature, 390 (6660), 1997, p. 569.
  • B. Wullich, KD Zang (Ed.): Genetics of diseases of the urogenital system . Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2000, ISBN 978-3-642-64039-1 .
  • KD Zang: Meningioma: a cytogenetic model of a complex benign tumor . Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 93 (3-4), 2001, pp. 207-220.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sven Kinas: Adolf Butenandt (1903-1995) and his school . Archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, 2004, ISBN 978-3-927579-19-4 , p. 195-196 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Müller: Univ.-Professor Dr. Klaus Dieter Zang 80 years . In: Saarländisches Ärzteblatt . No. 7/2015 , p. 38 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Zang, Wolfram Henn (Ed.): 25 years of human genetics in Saarland . Röhrig University Press, St. Ingbert 1999.
  4. ↑ contact person. Ancestry Genetics IGD Saar, accessed on June 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Honored - Prof. Dr. med. Klaus-Dieter Zang . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . 97, issue 11, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Zang, Klaus-Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zang, Klaus D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen