Nikolaus Müller-Lantzsch

Nikolaus Müller-Lantzsch (born March 29, 1943 in Görlitz ; † August 2, 2017 in Homburg ) was a German virologist and university professor at the Homburg University Hospital in Saarland .

Life

Nikolaus Müller-Lantzsch studied biology at the Universities of Hamburg and Freiburg from 1964 to 1971 . After graduating as Dr. rer. nat. in 1974 he worked at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California . From 1976 he conducted research at the Institute for Virology at the University of Freiburg, where he also completed his habilitation in 1981. From 1980 until he headed the “Research and Development Virology” department at the Swiss Serum and Vaccination Institute in Bern. In 1982 he was appointed to a chair at the Institute for Virology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Six years later, he was offered a chair in virology at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at the Saarland University in Homburg and became department director.

Müller-Lantzsch from 1990 to 1994, from 1996 to 1998 Vice Dean of the Department of Clinical Medicine and from 1998 to 2002, from June 2003 to September 2004 dean of the medical faculty.

Müller-Lantzsch was a founding member of the Society for Virology , which he chaired from 2005 to 2011.

Honors

• 2002: Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Obituary for Nikolaus Müller-Lantzsch ( memento of the original from August 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM), accessed on September 13, 2017 
2. ^ Deans of the Faculty of Medicine , UKS, accessed August 7, 2017