Peter Vaupel

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Peter W. Vaupel (born August 21, 1943 in Lemberg , Pfalz) is a German doctor and physiologist / pathophysiologist . He is the former head of the Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology in the Faculty of Medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . From 2008–2019 he was a (visiting) professor for tumor pathophysiology, strategy consultant at the Clinic for Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy, and an expert lecturer in the master's degree in Radiation Biology at the Klinikum rechts der Isar at the Technical University of Munich . Since October 2019 Peter Vaupel has been a visiting scientist at the Clinic for Radiation Medicine at the University Medical Center Freiburg / Br.

Life

After attending the primary school in his place of birth and the then state mathematical and natural science high school in Pirmasens , Peter Vaupel studied medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1963 to 1968 . From 1965 to 1968 he was a doctoral student and research assistant at the Physiological Institute of the University of Mainz. With a dissertation on the thermal diffusion of ions through cell membranes, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. After working as a medical assistant in the municipal hospital in Pirmasens, he received his license to practice medicine in 1970. In the same year he began his medical-scientific work at the then Institute for Physiology at the university. This research and teaching activity was interrupted in 1972/1977 by military service as a medical officer.

In the spring of 1974 he completed his habilitation with a paper on the oxygen supply of malignant tumors and was at the same time appointed professor at the University of Mainz. In 1979 he accepted an invitation as a visiting professor at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit (USA). He was appointed head of the Department of Applied Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Mainz in 1983. Due to his scientific work in the field of blood circulation and oxygen distribution and the microenvironment in cancer tissue, he was appointed full professor at Harvard University in Boston (USA ). During a very productive research period in his role as Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Biology, Tumor Biology and Physiology at this elite American university, he received offers from the University of Münster (rejected) and Mainz. After accepting the call to Mainz, he took over the chair for pathophysiology in the medical department of Johannes Gutenberg University in 1989, which he held until his retirement in 2008. Since October 2008 he has been working in the Tumor Pathophysiology Section at the Clinic for Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy at the Mainz University Medical Center. In 2011 Peter Vaupel was Visiting Professor at the Department of Physiology, Batterjee Medical College in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia).

Peter Vaupel has been a speaker at international congresses and a scientific expert for many years. For many years he was a member of the Medical Expert Committee of the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions (IMPP) and a reviewer for the Projects Committee of Cancer Research of Great Britain. For 10 years he was chairman of the preclinical department committee of the medical department in Mainz and vice dean (1997 to 1999). Peter Vaupel has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz since 1998 . From 1999 to 2003 he was chairman of their commission for medical research.

Peter Vaupel u. a. as co-editor of the two textbooks Anatomie, Physiologie, Pathophysiologie des Menschen (1980, with Gerhard Thews and Ernst Mutschler ; 7th edition with Hans-Georg Schaible and Ernst Mutschler 2015) and Vegetative Physiology (1981, with Gerhard Thews; 5th edition 2005) . Both books are considered standard works. In addition, he is the author / co-author of more than 600 scientific publications and (co-) editor of 16 specialist books on the pathophysiology of malignant tumors. The publications recorded by Web of Science were cited over 26,000 times. Vaupel is one of the most cited pathophysiologists in the world. The current Hirsch index (h-factor) is 65. In 1993, together with Michael Höckel (University Women's Clinic Leipzig), Peter Vaupel described the pioneering mechanism of increasing aggression (malignant progression) in oxygen-depleted (hypoxic) tumors [Cancer Res. 56: p .4509, 1993].

Peter Vaupel's activities in scientific societies and foundations include: a. to call:

  • 1983–1984, 1991 chairman of the German Society for Microcirculation
  • 1991–1992 President of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT)
  • 1989–2008 Chairman of the Committee of the Boehringer Ingelheim Research Prize (Mainz)
  • since 1993 board member of the “Dr. med. hc Erwin Braun Foundation "(Basel)
  • since 1996 chairman of the "Wulf Vater Foundation" (Wulf Vater Dihydropyridine Research Prize, Mainz)
  • 2010 founding member of the "International Society of Primo Vascular System "

Honors

The scientific work of Peter Vaupel has been awarded numerous scientific prizes:

  • Boehringer Ingelheim Research Award 1974,
  • Honorary Master's Degree (MA) from Harvard University, 1988
  • Lund Science Award 1989,
  • Award of the European Society of Hyperthermic Oncology (ESHO) 2004,
  • 1st Robert F. Kallman Memorial Lecture at Stanford University Medical School 2004,
  • Award of the Indian Association Hyperthermia Oncology and Medicine 2008,
  • 1st Lifetime Achievement Award from IAHOM, India 2012,
  • A. Kovach Memorial Lecture of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) 2012,
  • The Outstanding Research Award, International Conference on Tumor Microenvironment, Miami 2013,
  • Honorary member of the Scientific Association of Swiss Radiation Oncology (SASRO) 2004,
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Radiation Oncology (DEGRO) 2006,
  • Honorary Member of the Society for Radiation Research (SRR) 2015
  • DGHT Award for the recognition of special achievements for hyperthermia 2016
  • Establishment "Peter Vaupel Lecture", International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) 2017
  • Hon. Visiting Professor, Odessa National Medical University. Election and Appointment by Academic Council, June 24, 2019
  • 2nd Lifetime Achievement Award from IAHOM, India 2020

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Peter Vaupel at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on November 6, 2017
  2. ↑ Internet page of the International Society of Primo Vascular System, History subpage, here online ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); last viewed on April 2, 2020
  3. ^ Deutscher Ärzteverlag GmbH, editorial office of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Award. In: www.aerzteblatt.de. Retrieved December 28, 2016 .
  4. ↑ High distinction for the life's work of Professor Dr. Peter Vaupel. Press release from the Department of Radiation Medicine at the University Medical Center Freiburg i. B., undated (accessed April 3, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Vaupel, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vaupel, Peter W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemberg (Palatinate)