Thomas M. Behr
Thomas M. Behr (born May 21, 1966 in Nuremberg ; † August 20, 2010 ) was a German nuclear medicine specialist and university professor.
Life
Behr attended a grammar school in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate . From 1985 to 1992 he studied medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and from 1988 to 1992 also biochemistry . In 1993 he received his doctorate in physiological chemistry with a thesis on surface molecules of pneumococci . From 1992 to 1994 Behr was an assistant at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Nuclear Medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen. 1994–1996 he did a research stay in the USA and then moved to the Clinic for Nuclear Medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1998 he completed his habilitation with the thesis “From nuclear medicine diagnostics to antigen- or receptor-specific therapy for CEA-expressing tumors”.
From December 1, 2000 until his death, Behr was head of the Clinic for Nuclear Medicine at the Clinic of the Philipps University in Marburg .
Honors
For his work in the field of nuclear medicine, Behr received the Mallinckrodt Award for Nuclear Medicine in 1995 , the Masahiro Iio Award from the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology in 1998 and the Hans Creutzig Award from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin. Finally, in 1999 he was awarded the Marie Curie Prize of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine and the Prize of the State of Lower Saxony's Innovation Offensive.
Web links
- Detailed curriculum vitae ( memento from September 28, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) at the University of Marburg
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| SURNAME | Behr, Thomas M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nuclear medicine specialist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 2010 |