Harald Hausen - Curriculum Vitae#
Education :
- 1942 - 1946 Elementary School, Gelsenkirchen for 2 1/2 years (interrupted due to World War II)
- 1946 - 1950 Gymnasium (High School), Gelsenkirchen-Buer
- 1950 - 1955 Gymnasium, Vechta
- 1955 - 1960 Medical student at the Universities of Bonn (1955 -1957), Hamburg (1957-1958), and Düsseldorf (1958- 1960)
- December 1960 Graduation in Medicine and M.D. University of Düsseldorf
Professional Training and Academic Positions :
- 1960 - 1962 Internships in Wimbern, Isny, Gelsenkirchen and Düsseldorf
- 1962 Approbation
- 1962 - 1965 Research Fellow, Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie,University of Düsseldorf (Head : Prof. W. Kikuth)
- 1966 - 1969 Research Fellow, Division of Virology, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Head : Prof. W. Henle)
- 1968 Appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- 1969 - 1972 Senior Scientist, Institut für Virologie, University of Würzburg, Germany
- 1969 Privat-Dozent für Virologie, University of Würzburg
- 1972 - 1977 Chairman and Professor, Institut für Klinische Virologie, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1977 - 1983 Chairman and Professor, Institut für Virologie, Zentrum für Hygiene, University of Freiburg
- 1983 – 2003 Chairman of the Management Board and Scientific Director of the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center), Heidelberg
- Since May 2003 Professor emeritus
Special Appointments
- 1975 - 1977 "Sprecher" (Chairman) of the Sonderforschungsbereich 31Methodenforschung zur Früherkennung des KrebsesSpecial Research Program of the German Science Foundation - DFG), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1979 - 1983 "Sprecher" (Chairman) of the Sonderforschungsbereich 118,Medizinische Virologie : Tumorentstehung und Entwicklung (Special Research Program of the German Science Foundation - DFG, University of Freiburg
- 1983 - 1988 Member of the Mott - Committee (twice) and of the Assembly of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, New York
- 1983 - 1991 Member of the Kuratorium (Advisory Board) of the JungStiftung, Hamburg
- 1985 - 1998 Chairman of the Advisory Council and Vice Chairman of the Board of the Robert-Koch-Stiftung, Bonn
- 1986 - 1994 Member of the Council of the International Union against Cancer (UICC)
- 1987 - 1989 Chairman of the Kuratorium (Advisory Board) of the Dahlem Konferenzen, Berlin
- 1988 Appointment as "Honorar-Professor" at the University of Heidelberg
- 1989 - 1991 Chairman of the Association of National Research Centers (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Großforschungseinrichtungen),Bonn
- 1990 - 1993 Vice Chairman and President-Elect of the Organization of European Cancer Institutes (OECI)
- 1990 - 1995 Member of the Executive Board of the Swiss Cancer Institute, Epalinges-Lausanne
- 1990 - 1992 Member, BMFT-Kommission "Grundlagenforschung"(Commission for Basic Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology)
- 1990-1996 Member, BMFT-Kommission "Gesundheitsforschungsrat"(Health Research Council) of the Ministry of Science and Technology
- 1991 - 1995 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Wissenschaftl.Beirat) of the Biomedical Research Center (Biomedizin. Forschungszentrum - BMFZ) of the Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
- 1991 - 1993 Vice-President of the Academia Europaea
- 1993 - 1996 President of the Organization of European Cancer Institutes (OECI)
- 1988-1990 Chairman of the von Leyden Prize-Committee, Heidelberg
- 1994-1996 Chairman of the Salzer-Prize-Committee, Heidelberg
- 1994 - 1996 Member of the European Board of Directors of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO)
- 1994 - 1998 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Imperial Cancer Research Center (ICRF) in London, U.K.
- 1996-2006 Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
- 1998-2000 Member of the German American Academic Council
- 1998-2002 Member of the “Hochschulrat“ (University Adcvisory Council) of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1999 - 2000 Vice-Chairman of the German American Academic Council
- 1999-2009 Member of the Governing Council of the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research, Brussels
- 2001 - 2003 Vice-President of the Helmholtz Society of German National Research Centers
- 2003-2009 Vice-President of the LEOPOLDINA, German Academy of Natural Sciences and Medicine
- 2003 - 2005 Member, "Gesundheitsforschungsrat" (Health Research Council) of the German Ministry of Science and Technology
- 2003 - 2006 Member of the “Stiftungsrat” (University Advisory Council University of Göttingen, Germany)
- 2005-2009 Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the French National Cancer Institute, Paris
- 2006-2009 Member of the Board of Directors, International Union against Cancer, Geneva, Switzerland
- Since 2007 Member of the International Advisory Committee of the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Bangkok, Thailand
- 2007-2009 Member Scientific Advisory Board Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds (WWTF), Vienna, Austria
- Since 2010 Vicepresident European Academy of Cancer
Awards :
- 1971 Walter Richtzenhein-Prize, University of Heidelberg
- 1974 Wilhelm-Warner Prize, University of Hamburg
- 1975 Robert-Koch Prize and Medal, Robert-Koch-Stiftung, Bonn
- 1982 Schaudinn-Hoffmann Plakette, German Dermatological Society, Vienna
- 1985 Lila Gruber Award for Cancer Research, American Academy of Dermatology, Las Vegas, USA
- 1986 Charles S. Mott Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA
- 1986 Deutscher Krebspreis (German Cancer Award), German Cancer Association, Munich
- 1992 Sebatia Ter Prize, Naples, Italy
- 1993 Federation of the European Cancer Societies, Clinical Research Award, Jerusalem, Israel
- 1993 Martinus-Willem Beijerinck Medal, Nederlands Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1994 Emil-von Behring Prize and Lecture, University of Marburg
- 1994 Paul-Ehrlich - Ludwig Darmstätter Prize, Frankfurt
- 1996 Ernst-Jung-Prize, Hamburg
- 1999 Charles Rodolphe Brupacher Prize for Cancer, Zürich, Switzerland
- 2000 Virchow-Medal of the Medical Faculty, University of Würzburg
- 2001 Arthur Burkhardt-Prize, Stuttgart
- 2001 Thomas Parram Price of the American Society of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- 2002 San Marino Prize for Medicine
- 2002 Honorary Senator, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2002 Gregor-Mendel Medal, University of Prague
- 2004 “Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz” (Order of Merit), Berlin
- 2005 Prize of the Panamerican Society for Clinical Virology,Clearwater, USA
- 2006 Prince Mahidol Award, Bangkok, Thailand
- 2006 Raymond Bourgine Award, Paris
- 2006 Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 2006 William B Coley Award for Distiguished Research in Basic Immunology, Cancer Research Institute, New York
- 2007 Johann-Georg Zimmermann Medal for Distinguished Research in Cancer Prevention, Hannover, Germany
- 2007 Loeffler-Frosch Medal, German Virological Society, Nürnberg
- 2007 Daniel Nathans Memorial Award, Rapid Falls, USA
- 2007 Deutscher Krebshilfe-Preis (German Cancer Aid Award), Bonn, Germany
- 2008 AACR Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Cancer Research, San Diego, USA
- 2008 UICC Outstanding Volunteer Award for Excellence in Cancer Control. Geneva, Switzerland.
- 2008 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, Harvard Medical SchoolBoston, USA.
- 2008 Stuart Mudd Award, International Union of Microbiological Societies, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2008 Gairdner Foundation International Award, Toronto, Canada.6
- 2008 Nobel-Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2008 Prix de la Princess Lalla Salma, Rabat, Maroc
- 2009 Primio ACCUDES AWARD, Junta Directiva de la Associación contra el Cancer de Útero de España, Madrid, Spain.
- 2009 Innovation award, “Berufsverband Deutscher Frauenärzte”, Düsseldorf.
- 2009 “Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern” (Special Order of Merit with Star), President of the German Republic,Berlin
- 2009 Honorary Professor in Cancer Virology, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2010 Grand Georgios Papanicolaou Award, Hellenic Society, New York
- September 2010 “Hall of Fame of German Research”, Manager Magazin, Berlin, Germany
- October 2010 The Economist’s Innovation Award, The Economist, London, UK.
- October 2010 “Bayerischer Maximiliansorden” (Bavarian Order of Merit for Sciences and the Arts) Munich
Honorary Degrees:
- 1984 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, University of Chicago, USA
- 1991 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Medicine, University of Umeå,Sweden
- 1994 Honrary Degree, Doctor of Medicine, Charles University,Prague, Czech Republic
- 1997 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Science, University of Salford, England
- 2000 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2005 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
- 2008 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Medicine, University of Würzburg, Germany
- 2008 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Ferrara, Italy
- 2009 Honorary degree, Doctor of Science, University of Buenos Aires, Argentine
- 2010 Honorary Degree Doctor of Science, La Trobe University,Victoria, Australia
- 2010 Honorary degree, Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Salerno, Italy
- 2011 Honorary Degree. Doctor of Medicine, University of Madrid, Spain
Honorary Memberships :
- 1982 South African Society for Dermatology
- 1989 Polish Society for Dermatology
- 1989 Japanese Cancer Society
- 1991 Scientific Medical Society of Virology, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 1993 Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology
- 1993 Hungarian Cancer Society
- 2001 Italian Society of Virology
- 2003 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Virologie
- 2005 Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft
- 2008 Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008 Honorary Member European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2009 Hungarian Society for Microbiology
- 2009 Honorary President of the Hellenic Society for Cytology, Athen.
- 2010 American Association for Cancer Research
- March 2010 Berlin Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Berlin, Germany
- July 2010 International Association for Dental Research, Barcelona, Spain
- July 2010 Honorary FASM, Australian Society for Microbiology, Sidney, Australia
- September 2010 Ecuadorial Society of Pathology of the Genital Tract and Colposcopy. Quevedo, Ecuador
- September 2010 Honorary Citizen, Quesedo, Ecuador
- January 2011 Ludwig-Heilmeyer-Gesellschaft (Ludwig-Heilmeyer Society for Progress in Internal Medicine), Cologne
Elected Memberships :
- 1976 European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1986 Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 1986 German Academy of Natural Sciences LEOPOLDINA, Halle
- 1989 Human Genome Organization (HUGO)
- 1991 Polish Academy of Sciences (Foreign Member)
- 1993 Venezuelan National Academy of Medicine
- 1998 American Philosophical Society
- 2002 Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 2003 Academy of Cancer Immunology, New York
- 2006 La Sociedad Peruana de Cancerologia, Lima, Peru Corresponding Member
- 2009 National Academy of Sciences, USA (Foreign Member)
- 2010 Foreign Member Societas Scientiarum Fennica (Finnish Society for Science), Helsinki.
Special Lectures and Visiting Professorships :
- 1974 Visiting Professor at the University of Belo Horizonte, Brazil9
- 1976 Visiting Professor at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
- 1976 Otto-Warburg-Memorial Lecture, German Cancer Congress, Nürnberg
- 1981 Visiting Professor of the Microbiological Society of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- 1984 Otto-Herz-Memorial Lecture, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
- 1985 General Motors Visiting Professor, McArdle University, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- 1986 Leah-Lederman-Lecture, Royal Society of Medicine, London, U.K.
- 1986 F. Stolman Memorial Lecture, Wilsede, Germany
- 1988 General Motors Visiting Professor, F. Hutchinson Cancer Center and University of Seattle, Seattle, USA
- 1992 First Allan Granoff Lectureship, St. Jude Children's ResearchHospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- 1994 Opening Plenary Lecture, International Cancer Congress,New Delhi, India
- 1994 Third Gertrude and Werner Henle Lectureship in Viral Oncology, Cold Spring Harbor, USA
- 1998 Theobald Smith Lecture, Albany, New York
- 1998 Link Visiting Professorship, Institute of Cancer Research,*London
- 1999 Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund Lecturerin Tokyo, Kumamoto and Nagoya, Japan
- 2000 Virchow-Lecture, University of Würzburg
- 2001 Alfred-Marchionini Memorial Lecture, University of Hamburg
- 2001 Dudley Wright Lecturer, Göttingen
- 2002 John H. Blaffer Visiting Professor, M.D. Anderson, Houston, Texas
- 2002 Isaac Berenblum Memorial Lecture, Rehovot, Israel
- Between 1980 and 2007 A larger number of keynote lectures at international meetings.
Editorial Board Member :
- International Journal of Cancer (Editor in Chief since January 2000)
- Cancer Prevention Research
- Cell Cycle
- Cancer Immunity
- Journal of Human Virology
- Journal of Environmental Science and Health
- Acta Oncologica
- Nowotwory, Journal of Oncology
- Archive of Oncology
- Journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology B.U.ON.
Memberships :
- American Association for Cancer Research
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- American Society for Microbiology
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Virologie
- Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Naturforscher und Ärzte
- European Cancer Society
- Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie
- Robert-Koch Gesellschaft
- Hochschulverband
- Organization or Co-Organization of International Meetings :11
- 1974 Erlangen-Nürnberg, Oncogenesis and Herpesviruses II, jointly organized with G. de Thé and M.A. Epstein
- 1979 Cold Spring Harbor, USA, Viruses in Naturally Occurring Human Cancers, jointly organized with M. Essex and G. G. Todaro
- 1985 Banbury Conference Viral Etiology of Cervical Cancer, Cold Spring Harbor, USA, jointly with R. Peto
- 1986 Park City,Utah, USA, Visuses and Human Cancers, UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, jointly with R. Gallo, W. Haseltine, and G. Klein
- 1986 Heidelberg, The Role of DNA Amplification in Carcinogenesis General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Conference, jointly with J. Schlehofer
- 1989 San Diego, USA, Viruses in Human Tumors, American Association for Cancer Research, jointly with G. Miller and W. Summers
- 1990 Heidelberg, International Workshop on Papillomaviruses, jointly with Lutz Gissmann
- 1992 Heidelberg, Viruses in Human Cancers, Inauguration of the new building for Applied Tumorvirology, jointly with Lutz Gissmann
- 1995 Heidelberg, Oncogenic Viruses and Cell Cycle Control, jointly with P. Jansen-Dürr
- 1996 Heidelberg, HUGO’s Human Genome Meeting 96,jointly with HUGO Europe
- 2000 Heidelberg, Viruses in the Etiology of Human Cancers,First Heinrich F.C. Behr Symposium, jointly with Peter Howley
- 2002 Heidelberg, Infections and Human Cancers – Parasites, Bacteria, and Novel Viral Agents, 2nd Heinrich F.C. Behr Symposium, Organisation Peter Howley, Ethel-Michele de Villiers, Harald zur Hausen
- 2004 Heidelberg, Microbes and Malignancy, 3rd Heinrich F.C. Behr Symposium and 1st Annual LEOPOLDINAConference, Organization Peter Howley, Volker ter Meulen, and Harald zur Hausen.