Tribute to Harald zur Hausen
HARALD ZUR HAUSEN
1936-2023
1936-2023
| Prof Harald zur Hausen, a German biologist, died Sunday, May 28, 2023. He is remembered for having received the Nobel Prize in 2008 for medicine/physiology for the discovery of the role of HPV in cervical cancer. Many will remember the 9th IPVC in 1990 at which he presided and which was held in Heidelberg, Germany. Harald studied medicine in Bonn, Hamburg and Dusseldorf universities. As a young medical virologist, he studied in Philadelphia with Gertrude and Werner Henle.read entire text Written by Suzanne M Garland Professor of Reproductive & Neonatal Infectious Diseases, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Australia. Director, Centre of Women’s Infectious Diseases Research, Royal Women’s Hospital (RWH), Melbourne, Australia. Honorary Research Fellow, Infection & Immunity, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Speech delivered at HPV Prevention & Control Board meeting, Antwerp, on June 1, 2023. |
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