Werner Solbach
Werner Solbach (born February 2, 1952 in Herdorf ) is a German doctor, emeritus professor for medical microbiology and hygiene and former dean of the medical faculty of the University of Lübeck .
Life
Solbach studied medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and received his doctorate in 1979 at the Institute for Medical Microbiology there (Director Paul Klein) in the group of Martin Röllinghoff and Hermann Wagner. After basic training in paediatrics, he continued his research work as a research assistant at the Mainz Institute until 1983 and followed his academic teacher Röllinghoff to the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1987 he received his habilitation in Erlangen and in 1989 he was appointed to a professorship (C3) for medical microbiology and immunology. In 1997 he accepted an appointment at the University of Lübeck as a university professor (C4) and director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene with the Lübeck Medical Examination Office.
Act
His main area of work is the elucidation of mechanisms of the immune response against infections. First, he analyzed the mechanisms by which lymphocytes are activated during inflammation. Since 1983 he has been studying experimentally the reasons for the individually different susceptibility to infections with intracellular microorganisms. Recently, the SFB 654 Plasticity and Sleep has focused on the question of how sleep and cellular clocks influence immunological memory formation.
In Erlangen, Solbach co-founded the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 263 of the German Research Foundation (DFG) "Immunological Mechanisms in Infection, Inflammation and Autoimmunity" and the DFG Graduate School 157 of the same name. In Lübeck he was the deputy spokesman for the SFB 367 “Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammatory and Degenerative Processes” and is co-founder of the DFG Excellence Cluster Inflammation at Interfaces (2007) and the German Center for Infection Research (2011). He developed the focus on "infection and inflammation" as one of the main scientific focuses of the University of Lübeck. He is co-founder and spokesman (until 2016) of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Inflammation Research Lübeck (ZIEL). From 2002 to 2012 he was general secretary of the German Society for Immunology and is the executive director of the Foundation of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology and on the board of the Renate Maass Foundation and the Foundation Diagnostik hilft . He was an active member of numerous committees and advisory boards for academic self-government and scientific policy advice. In 2017 he retired.
Awards
In 2008, Solbach was accepted as a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg . There he is spokesman for the working group "Infections and Society". The German Society for Immunology awarded him the Medal of Honor in 2012. In the same year he was appointed "Visiting Professor" of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Nicolae Testemitanu of the Republic of Moldova. Since October 2016 he has been President of the Paul Ehrlich Society for Chemotherapy e. V.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Microbiology and Hygiene: Farewell Lecture by Prof. Werner Solbach , University of Lübeck, September 22, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2019
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Solbach, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician, full professor for medical microbiology and hygiene, former dean of the medical faculty of the University of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herdorf |