Wolfgang Wilmanns (doctor)

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Wolfgang Wilmanns (born May 20, 1929 in Gadderbaum - Bethel , today Bielefeld , † December 24, 2003 in Munich ) was a German physician and university professor.

biography

The son of the Hanseatic merchant and scholarly family Wilmanns , whose father Richard Wilmanns was Medical Director at the Von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel , studied medicine at the Universities of Mainz , Innsbruck and Marburg . From 1955 to 1956 he worked in Passaic / New Jersey (USA). After a year of practical experience, he received a grant from the German Research Foundation from 1958 to 1960 at the Feodor Lynen Institute at the University of Munich , where he mainly carried out biochemical research. His research on purine and pyrimidine synthesis led to treatment methods for leukemia , which Wilmann's main focus of his research life was.

Further stations in his scientific career were the University of Marburg (assistant doctor to Hans Erhard Bock ), which he followed in 1962 to the University of Tübingen . There he was appointed adjunct professor in 1971.

From 1977 to 1998 he was director of the Medical Clinic III at the University of Munich Clinic in Großhadern, where he was also director of the Institute for Clinical Hematology in the Research Center for Environment and Health (GSF).

In 1998 he founded the Wolfgang Wilmanns Foundation to promote leukemia and tumor research at the Munich universities and the Munich Tumor Center. The foundation awards prizes to young scientists or research groups.

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SURNAME Wilmanns, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Gadderbaum
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2003
Place of death Munich