Rainer Greger

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Rainer Friedemann Greger (born January 3, 1946 in Regensburg ; † December 16, 2007 in Heitersheim ) was a German kidney and transport physiologist.

He explained the transport processes required for urine concentration and fluid secretion. His research is important for understanding the effects of diuretics and the pathophysiology of cystic fibrosis , among other things . Greger was the author and editor of standard scientific works in medicine.

Life

After graduating from high school in Konstanz, Greger began studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1966 , which he completed in 1971. In 1970/71 he completed a study visit to Glasgow (Scotland).

In 1972 he became an assistant at the Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria) and then moved to the Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota (USA) in 1975. In 1976 he completed his habilitation at the Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria), where he worked as an assistant until 1979. From 1979 he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1986 Greger received a professorship and was temporarily director of the physiological institute of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau . In June 1999 he was elected one of the University's Vice Rectors . After an accident in the same year, Greger had to give up his research and teaching in the field of physiology . Rainer Greger died on December 16, 2007 as a result of the accident.

Honors

In recognition of his work, the Society for Nephrology has been awarding the Rainer Greger doctoral prize for the best nephrological doctoral thesis in the field of kidney and hypertension diseases since 1996. Rainer Greger is the recipient of the Anton von Eiselsberg Prize, the Adolf Fick Prize , the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , the Jacob Henle Medal (1998) and both the Franz Volhard Prize and the Franz Volhard Medal. In 1992 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and in 1995 he was elected a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . Since 1999 he was a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg
  2. ^ Rainer Greger PhD award on the website of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt
  3. ↑ Rainer Greger Promotion Prize 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2012 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. on the website of the German Research Foundation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgfn.eu
  4. ↑ List ( Memento of the original from January 14, 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. the winner of the Rainer Greger doctoral award since 1996 on the website of the German Research Foundation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgfn.eu
  5. ^ Announcement on the award of the Jacob Henle Medal on the website of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt (1998; 95 (50): A-3233 / B-2597 / C-2349)
  6. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Rainer Greger. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 20, 2015 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Greger, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greger, Rainer Friedemann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German kidney and transport physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2007
Place of death Heitersheim