Matthias Frosch
Matthias Frosch (born February 24, 1960 in Mainz ) is a German doctor and microbiologist .
Life
Frosch studied human medicine from 1979 to 1986 at the University of Mainz , where he received his doctorate in 1986. He was then a post-doctoral student in Tübingen and Hanover. After obtaining his habilitation in medical microbiology (1992), he was professor at the Hannover Medical School from 1994 to 1996 and has held the chair for hygiene and microbiology at the University of Würzburg since 1996 .
Frosch has published more than 200 articles in international journals, mainly on molecular biology and epidemiology of the pathogenic bacterium Neisseria meningitidis . He has received several awards for his work. Among other things, he received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the DFG in 1986, the Tancré Prize of the University of Mainz in 1986, the Research Prize of the German Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 1993 , and the bioMerieux in 1995. Diagnostic Prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM) and in 1998 the main prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology . In 2008 he was awarded the Aronson Prize of the Berlin Senate .
From 2004 to 2006 he was President of the DGHM, since 2005 he has been President of the European Society for Meningococcal Diseases and since 2006 Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg.
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| SURNAME | Frog, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician, microbiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |