Paul Kleihues

Paul Kleihues (born May 21, 1936 in Rheine ) is a German physician and professor emeritus for neuropathology at the University of Zurich .

Life

After studying medicine at the universities of Münster , Hamburg , Munich and Pavia, Kleihues worked for twelve years at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (now the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research ) in Cologne and investigated the causes of brain tumors caused by chemical carcinogens .

Kleihues took over the first professorship in 1976 at the Institute for Pathology (Ludwig-Aschoff-Haus) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1983 he followed a call to Zurich, where he became director of the Institute for Neuropathology at the University Hospital Zurich . From 1990 to 1992 he was Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich .

In 1994 he became director of the International Cancer Research Center of the World Health Organization - International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon , where he continued exploring the molecular pathological diagnosis, prognosis and causes of human tumors of the nervous system. After his retirement in 2005, Kleihues became the founding director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University Hospital of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.

He was the first President of the Research Council of the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia (IFP) in Zurich, founded in 1991 .

In 2005/2006 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and then a visiting scientist at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda (Maryland) .

2008-2014 he was a delegate of the Board of the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Foundation .

Kleihues is the founding editor of Brain Pathology and was the editor of the third edition of WHO Classification of Tumors . He published more than 300 scientific papers including in Nature .

Honors and memberships (selection)

1991: Zülch Prize from the Max Planck Society
1998: Member of the Leopoldina
2001: Médaille d'or, Ligue contre le cancer
2001: Honorary membership of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
2003: Honorary membership of the German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy
2005: Honorary doctorate from the University of Łódź
2005: Honorary membership of the European Society for Pathology
2007: Honorary doctorate from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
2008: Johann Georg Zimmermann Medal for life's work in the fight against cancer
2008: Alfons Maria Jakob Medal
2012: Visiting Professor, Lowy Cancer Center, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2013: Rudolf Virchow Medal
2013: Honorary doctorate from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main