Wilhelm Bloch (sports medicine specialist)

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Wilhelm Bloch (* 1959 in Ingelheim ) is a German sports doctor and university professor .

Life

Bloch went to school in Mainz and then studied medicine and philosophy at the local Johannes Gutenberg University until 1986 . In 1987 and 1988 he did his military service and then completed a second degree in physics from 1988 to 1991 .

From 1991 to 2004 Bloch worked as a scientific assistant or senior assistant at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Cologne . There he completed his doctoral thesis in 1994 and his habilitation in 2004. In 2004 Bloch took up a professorship for molecular and cellular sports medicine at the Institute for Circulatory Research and Sports Medicine at the German Sports University Cologne (DSHS).

Until June 2016, Bloch was Chairman of the Science Council of the German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention .

Bloch's research focuses on the medical and cell biological adaptation of tissues and organs to physical stress. Among other things, he deals with the effects of physical activity on cancer patients, the topic of epigenetics , interval training as a means of slowing down the course of the disease multiple sclerosis , the effects of anabolic steroids on the heart and mitochondrial adaptation processes through endurance training.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b WHO IS WHO. In: German Sport University Cologne. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention - DGSP. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Bloch - DSHS. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wilhelm Bloch: Epigenetics - an explanation for long-term effects of physical activity . In: Sports medicine in North Rhine: the journal for members . tape 2015 , no. 2 , 2015, p. 18-19 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on March 27, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Wilhelm Bloch, Philipp Zimmer: With interval training against inflammation foci in the brain . In: Impulse . tape 22 , no. 1 , 2017, ISSN  2192-3531 , p. 48 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on March 27, 2019]).
  6. ^ Wilhelm Bloch: Anabolic stereoids alter cardiac adaptation to exercice . 2001, ISBN 978-3-89001-363-3 , pp. 91-106 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on March 27, 2019]).
  7. ^ Wilhelm Bloch: Analysis of mitochondrial adaptation processes through endurance training. 2006, accessed March 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports physician, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingelheim