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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008. Prof. Harald zur Hausen. © dkfz.de. Harald zur Hausen was born on March 11, 1936 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Germany. He studied Medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Hamburg and Düsseldorf and received his M.D. in 1960.
Mar 4, 2024 · Harald zur Hausen (1936 to 2023): Discoverer of human papillomavirus infection as the main cause of cervical cancer | PNAS.
May 28, 2023 · Professor zur Hausen was a global leader in cancer research throughout his career and also after his retirement. His major achievement was his work on human papillomavirus (HPV) causing cancer. His initial hypothesis, published in 1976, was later epidemiologically and experimentally confirmed, leading to what is now a global initiative to ...
May 29, 2023 · Nobel laureate Harald zur Hausen has passed away. No. 31 | 29/05/2023 | by Koh. The German Cancer Research Center mourns the death of Harald zur Hausen. The Nobel Laureate in Medicine and longtime Chairman of the DKFZ Board of Directors died last Monday, May 29, at the age of 87.
Nobel laureate who linked human papillomavirus to cervical cancer. virologist Harald zur Hausen proved that human papillomaviruses (HPVs) can cause cervical cancer. He laid the foundations for the ...
Mar 3, 2024 · By molecular cloning the genomes for HPV16 and HPV18 in the mid-1980s, he and his team showed that human papillomavirus (HPV) infection was responsible for the vast majority of cervical cancers, which is one of the most common cancers worldwide. zur Hausen and his team also used cervical cancer cell lines to demonstrate the viral E6 and E7 ...
May 31, 2023 · Harald zur Hausen, who has died aged 87, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008 for identifying the virus which can cause cervical cancer – the second most common cancer among women around the ...
