Rolf Sauer

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Rolf Sauer (born September 19, 1939 in Hamburg ) is a German oncologist and radiation therapist .

Life

Sauer completed his studies in medicine in Hamburg and Vienna in 1963. He also did his doctorate in Hamburg. He was a medical officer in the German Armed Forces for one year , then as a research assistant at the Institute for Physiology at the University of Basel . In Basel he completed his training as a specialist in radiology and completed his habilitation in 1976 with a thesis on dose rate effects on pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells in mice.

In 1977 Sauer held the first chair for radiation therapy in Bavaria at the University of Erlangen , and the fourth in Germany. In 1996 he took over the position of medical director of the Erlangen University Hospital . His successor in this position was Werner Bautz in 2006 . In 2008 Sauer retired .

Sauer is married and has three children.

Act

Sauer has made a name for himself in radiation oncology in Germany. He founded the Erlangen Tumor Center, of which he was chairman until 1992. From 1979 to 1989 he was a member of the Protocol Review Committee “Comparative Therapy Studies in the Area of ​​Malignant Neoplasms” of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology , from 1989 to 1993 a member and 1993 to 1998 chairman of the Protocol Review Committee of the German Cancer Society . In 1981 Sauer initiated a nationwide training program in radiation oncology for doctors in training in the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1987 he founded the working group for clinical cancer research of the Working Group on Radiological Oncology of the German Cancer Society (ARO) and in 1989 the Working Group on Radiation Oncology in the Bavarian Radiological Society. In 1993, Sauer became the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Radiotherapy and Oncology .

Sauer's scientific work brought significant advances in the field of breast-conserving therapy for breast cancer , organ-conserving radiation therapy for advanced bladder cancer and neoadjuvant therapy ( radiochemotherapy ) for anal canal cancer and rectal cancer .

Sauer is - together with Günter Kauffmann and Wolfgang Weber - editor of the fourth edition of the textbook Radiology .

Awards (selection)

Web links

  • CV (PDF, 151 kB) at the Leopoldina (leopoldina.org)
  • Curriculum vitae (PDF, 662 kB) at the Atzelsberger Kreis for clinical hyperthermia (atzelsbergerkreis.de)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academic farewell party for Professor Dr. Med. Martin Röllinghoff, auditorium in Erlanger Castle, September 29, 2006, and ceremonial handover of the hospital directorate from Professor Dr. Med. Rolf Sauer to Professor Dr. Med. Werner Bautz, Atzelsberg Castle, October 13, 2006. Erlangen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7896-0438-6
  2. ^ Member entry by Rolf Sauer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ various: German Cancer Prize for Prof. Dr. Rolf Sauer. In: presse.uni-erlangen.de. February 8, 2004, accessed February 12, 2016 .
  4. ^ The 2005/2006 award winners ( memento of March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at Deutsche Hypothekenbank (deutsche-hypo.de); Retrieved December 2, 2012
  5. ↑ Prize winner 2007 at the German Röntgen Museum (roentgenmuseum.de); Retrieved December 2, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Sour, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oncologist and radiation therapist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg