Schlomo Staszewski

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Schlomo Staszewski (* 1951 in Tel Aviv ) is a German doctor and AIDS researcher.

Life

Schlomo Staszewski first studied philosophy and was active in the student movement. In 1985 he received his doctorate from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main under Professor Wolfgang Stille, who first diagnosed AIDS in Germany in 1982.

When more and more patients were diagnosed with AIDS in the early 1980s and most of them died very quickly, Staszewski focused on infectious diseases and built an outpatient clinic in Frankfurt am Main in House 68 of the University Clinic, which is still exemplary worldwide today, in which, in addition to treatment research on HIV treatment was also advanced by patients.

In 2003 he was appointed professor to the first chair for HIV medicine in Germany at Frankfurt University . Already during and after his habilitation on therapy strategies for HIV infection: Studies to optimize antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients , he planned and supervised numerous therapy projects and international multicenter studies in the field of HIV infection. After a lecture at an AIDS congress in Glasgow in 1994 , he is considered to be one of the inventors of the combination therapy , with the help of which a large number of HIV patients are treated worldwide and whose life expectancy and quality could be significantly improved as a result. Several thousand outpatients are currently being cared for in the Frankfurt HIV outpatient clinic.

Today Staszewski, who has been retired since 2007, lives with his family in Tel Aviv after cardiac arrest and subsequent long and difficult therapy. On July 11, 2014, he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his life's work .

Honors

  • In 1996 he was awarded the AIDS Research Prize of the German Society for Infectious Diseases.
  • In 2014 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friederike Tinnappel: AIDS professor honored . In Frankfurter Rundschau vol. 70 No. 159 v. July 12, 2014, p. R 15.

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personal data
SURNAME Staszewski, Schlomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German infectiologist and HIV researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv