Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Harald zur Hausen
Name: Harald zur Hausen Born: 11 March 1936 in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany Family Status: married
Academic and Professional Career since 2003 Professor emeritus
2002 John H. Blaffer Visiting Professor, M.D. Anderson, Houston, USA
1998 Link Visiting Professorship, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
1988 General Motors Visiting Professor, F. Hutchinson Cancer Center and University of Seattle, USA
1988 Appointment as honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany
1985 General Motors Visiting Professor, McArdle University, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
1981 Visiting Professor of the Microbiological Society of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
1977 - 1983 Chairman and Professor, Institut für Virologie, Zentrum für Hygiene, University of Freiburg,
Germany
1976 Queensland Professor at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
1974 Visiting Professor at the University of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1972 - 1977 Chairman and Professor, Institut für Klinische Virologie, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg,
Germany
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1969 Habilitation, University of Würzburg, Germany
1968 Appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA
1966 - 1969 Research Fellow, Division of Virology, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
1962 - 1965 Research Fellow, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
1962 Approbation
1960 - 1962 Internships in Wimbern, Isny, Gelsenkirchen and Düsseldorf, Germany
1960 Graduation in Medicine and M.D. University of Düsseldorf, Germany
1955 - 1960 Medical student at the Universities of Bonn (1955 - 1957), Hamburg (1957 - 1958), and
Düsseldorf (1958 - 1960), Germany
Functions in Scientific Societies and Committees since 2010 Vice President European Academy of Cancer 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 of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF),
Vienna, Austria
2006 - 2009 Member of the Board of Directors, International Union against Cancer, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 - 2009 Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the French National Cancer
Institute, Paris, France
2003 - 2009 Vice President of the German Academy of Science Leopoldina, which was appointed the
German National Academy of Sciences, Halle (Saale), in 2008
2003 - 2006 Member of the board of trustees of the University Advisory Council University of Göttingen,
Germany
2003 - 2005 Member of the Health Research Council of the German Ministry of Science and Technology
2001 - 2003 Vice President of the Helmholtz Society of German National Research Centers
1999 - 2009 Member of the Governing Council of the International Network for Cancer Treatment and
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1999 - 2000 Vice Chairman of the German American Academic Council (DAAK)
1998 - 2002 Member of the University Advisory Council of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
1998 - 2000 Member of the German American Academic Council (DAAK)
1996 - 2006 Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer
Research (LBI)
1994 - 1998 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Imperial Cancer Research Center (ICRF),
London, UK
Honours and Awarded Memberships
2011 Bavarian Order of Merit for Sciences and the Arts, Munich, Germany
2011 Tsungming- u Award
2011 Member of the Ludwig Heilmeyer Society for Progress in Internal Medicine, Cologne,
Germany
2010 Grand Georgios Papanicolaou Award, Hellenic Society, New York, USA
2010 “Hall of Fame of German Research”, Manager Magazin, Berlin, Germany
2010 The Economist’s Innovation Award, The Economist, London, UK
2010 Foreign Member Finnish Society for Science, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Member of the American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, USA
2010 Member of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Berlin, Germany
2010 Member of the International Association for Dental Research, Barcelona, Spain
2010 Honorary Member of the Australian Society for Microbiology, Sidney, Australia
2010 Member of the Ecuadorial Society of Pathology of the Genital Tract and Colposcopy,
Quevedo, Ecuador
2010 Honorary Citizen of Quesedo, Ecuador
2010 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities
2009 Special Order of Merit with Star of the Federal Republik of Germany (Großes
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2009 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Gairdner Foundation International Award, Toronto, Canada
2008 AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) Lifetime Achievement Award, American
Association of Cancer Research, San Diego, USA
2008 Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences
2008 Honorary Member European Academy of Sciences and Arts
2007 Johann-Georg Zimmermann Medal for Distinguished Research in Cancer Prevention,
Hannover, Germany
2006 William B Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology, Cancer Research
Institute, New York, USA
2006 Raymond Bourgine Award
2006 Member of La Sociedad Peruana de Cancerologia, Lima, Peru
2005 Prize of the Panamerican Society for Clinical Virology, Clearwater, USA
2005 Honorary Member of the German Dermatology Society
2004 Order of Merit, Berlin, Germany
2003 Member of the Academy of Cancer Immunology, New York, USA
2003 Honorary Member of the German Society of Virology
2002 Isaac Berenblum Memorial Lecture, Rehovot, Israel
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