Rolf-Hermann Ringert

Rolf-Hermann Ringert (born September 22, 1945 in Sankt Michaelisdonn ) was the head of the urology department at the University Hospital Göttingen .

Life

Ringert received his doctorate in 1972 at the Mannheim Clinic for a thesis on the mechanism of action of endotoxins . He initially worked in pediatric surgery, but switched to urology in 1976, where he completed his specialist training in 1980 .

In 1983 he completed his habilitation at the University of Essen with the subject of non-seminomatous testicular tumors - basics and results of new therapy concepts and experimental studies on the kinetics of anti-tumor substances in the interstitial fluid . In 1985 he was appointed to a professorship at the Essen Clinic. Since 1988 he has been director of the Urological University Clinic in Göttingen. In 2012 he retired.

In 2001, the German Society for Urology eV awarded him the Felix Martin Oberländer Prize, endowed with DM 10,000, donated by APOGEPHA Arzneimittel GmbH Dresden, for outstanding achievements in the field of advanced training and further education in urology .

The main committee of the German Research Foundation (DFG) reprimanded him on July 5, 2005 for violations of the rules of good scientific practice that he considered to be “false statements” in a case study published by him as the main author in the journal Nature .

Web links

• DFG press release ( memo from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )