Peter Bannasch

Peter Bannasch (2010)

Peter Bannasch (born April 14, 1934 in Biebergemünd ) is a German pathologist and oncologist .

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After graduating from high school in Hanau in 1954 , Peter Bannasch studied medicine until 1960 at the universities of Frankfurt , where he became a member of the Christian student association Frankfurter Wingolf , and Freiburg im Breisgau . In Freiburg from 1957 to 1960 he was also a doctoral student and research assistant in Hermann Druckrey's research group on preventive medicine . 1960 Bannasch was in Freiburg to defend his dissertation research on cancer cell resolution fabrics in homogenates and extracts of normal rat lungs to Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as a medical assistant at various hospitals until 1962. In 1963 Peter Bannasch went to the Institute for Pathology at the University of Würzburg as a research assistant . In 1968 he completed his habilitation in Würzburg with the habilitation thesis The Cytoplasm of the Liver Cell During Carcinogenesis. Compare light and electron microscope. Investigation on d. Nitrosomorpholine-poisoned rat liver for general and special pathology. A year later Bannasch became a university professor for pathology in Würzburg and in the same year a specialist in pathology . In 1973 he went to Heidelberg , where he became professor of pathology at the university and head of the cytopathology department at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). He held the latter function until he retired in 1999.

At the DKFZ, Bannasch was chairman of the scientific council from 1981 to 1984 and from 1987 to 1988. He was managing director of the Institute for Experimental Pathology at the DKFZ from 1985 to 1988 and from 2004 to 2010 chairman of the Alumni Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg eV (Association for the Promotion of Research and Teaching at the German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg). He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the DKFZ from 1996 to 1999.

From 1984 to 1991 Peter Bannasch was chairman of the cancer research coordination committee of the Working Group of Large Research Institutions (AGF). He was President of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) from 1987 to 1993. Bannasch was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Cancer Research from 1982 to 1986. Chairman of the Committee for Cellular and Molecular Pathology of the EULEP ( European Late Effects Project ) from 1984 to 1996. From 1993 to 1995 he was a member of the Council of Federation of European Cancer Societies .

Two visiting professorships brought him to China . In 2000 to the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an and in 2005 to Wuhan to the Tongji Medical Faculty of the University of Science and Technology in Central China .

Work area

Peter Bannasch's main area of ​​work is research into carcinogenesis , for example through the induction of carcinogens .

Publications (selection)

Peter Bannasch is author or co-author of over 200 scientific publications and author or editor of several monographs .

• with D. Nehrbass and A. Kopp-Schneider: Significance of hepatic preneoplasia for cancer chemoprevention. In: IARC Sci Publ 154, 2001, pp. 223-240. PMID 11220662 (Review)
• Hormonal and hormone-like effects eliciting hepatocarcinogenesis. In: Folia Histochem Cytobiol 39, 2001, pp. 28-29. PMID 11820616 (Review)
• with Q. Su: Relevance of hepatic preneoplasia for human hepatocarcinogenesis. In: Toxicol Pathol 31, 2003, pp. 126-133. PMID 12597457 (review)

Monographs

• with H. Remmer, HM Bolt and H. Popper (as editors): Primary Liver Tumors. MTP Press, Lancaster, 1978
• (as ed.): Cancer Risks. Strategies for Elimination. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1987
• (as ed.): Cancer Therapy. New trends. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1989
• with D. Keppler and G. Weber (as editors): Liver Cell Carcinoma. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, 1989
• (as ed.): Cancer Diagnosis. Early detection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1992
• with W. Gössner (as ed.): Pathology of Neoplasia and Preneoplasia in Rodents. Volumes 1 and 2, EULEP Color Atlas, Schattauer, Stuttgart, 1994, ISBN 3-764-35727-4, limited preview in the Google book search
• with D. Kanduc, S. Papa and JM Tager (as eds.): Cell Growth and Oncogenesis. Birkhäuser, Basel, 1998, ISBN 3-764-35727-4 limited preview in the Google book search

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Bannasch: Peter Bannasch . In: Barbara Bingel: We were students at the High State School. What they are, what they remember . Hanau 1989. ISBN 3-7684-0915-5 , pp. 39-47.
2. ^ Verband Alter Wingolfiten eV (Ed.): Vademecum Wingolfiticum , 25th edition, Hannover 2012, p. 53.
3. ^ J. Rautenstrauch: Peter Bannasch 65 years old. (PDF; 35 kB) Press release of the DKFZ from April 13, 1999
4. ↑ Alumni German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg eV Accessed on June 19, 2010
5. ↑ EACR yearbook 2006 (PDF; 2.7 MB) ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 30. 
6. ↑ birthdays. In: Dtsch Arztebl 96, 1999, pp. A-1224 / B-1044 / C-976