The internist Professor Klaus Wilms of the University of Würzburg celebrates on Thursday, 5 March, his 70th Birthday.From 1982 to 2004 he headed the Medical Polyclinic. Even in retirement to drive him to research and teaching.
In 2005, Klaus Wilms a visiting professor at the University of Tartu (Dorpat) in Estonia. In the two years after that he was repeatedly visiting professor in Würzburg's twin city Mwanza in Tanzania, at Bugando University College of Health Sciences of the University of St. Augustine. He taught the first issues of medical students in the field of Internal Medicine.Since 1 March 2008 is the medical director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Foundation Mainfranken at the University of Würzburg. This integrated cancer treatment and research center was at University Hospital and Medical Faculty established in Excellence Initiative of the German Cancer Society, in cooperation with the academic teaching hospitals.
Career of Klaus Wilms
Wilms Klaus, born in 1939 in Kiel, studied medicine in his native city and in Munich. After graduation, he worked in hospitals in Waiblingen, Heidenheim and Wiesbaden, and the Tübingen University Hospital.
A fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG), he worked from 1965 to 1967 at the Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, then to 1973 at the University Hospital in Tübingen.There he qualified and was appointed senior physician.
In the "Mecca" of bone marrow transplantation, the Division of Oncology at the University of Washington in Seattle, Klaus Wilms graduated in 1975 a research visit. Back in Tübingen, he was an adjunct professor in 1978, and from 1980 to 1982, he worked at the city's University Hospital as a senior consultant. Of Tübingen, he finally moved to Würzburg.
Research and Volunteering
As a researcher, Klaus Wilms considered, inter alia with the proliferation and specialization of cells in blood formation.Another focus of his work focused on leukemia and malignant lymphoma. He was also involved in clinical bone marrow transplantation and blood stem cell transfusions after high-dose chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
When the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden Klaus Wilms worked from 1991 to 1994 with the founding committee. For two years he was Dean of the Medical Faculty of Würzburg, for six years a member of the Science Council.
In 2005, Klaus Wilms a visiting professor at the University of Tartu (Dorpat) in Estonia. In the two years after that he was repeatedly visiting professor in Würzburg's twin city Mwanza in Tanzania, at Bugando University College of Health Sciences of the University of St. Augustine. He taught the first issues of medical students in the field of Internal Medicine.Since 1 March 2008 is the medical director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Foundation Mainfranken at the University of Würzburg. This integrated cancer treatment and research center was at University Hospital and Medical Faculty established in Excellence Initiative of the German Cancer Society, in cooperation with the academic teaching hospitals.
Career of Klaus Wilms
Wilms Klaus, born in 1939 in Kiel, studied medicine in his native city and in Munich. After graduation, he worked in hospitals in Waiblingen, Heidenheim and Wiesbaden, and the Tübingen University Hospital.
A fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG), he worked from 1965 to 1967 at the Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, then to 1973 at the University Hospital in Tübingen.There he qualified and was appointed senior physician.
In the "Mecca" of bone marrow transplantation, the Division of Oncology at the University of Washington in Seattle, Klaus Wilms graduated in 1975 a research visit. Back in Tübingen, he was an adjunct professor in 1978, and from 1980 to 1982, he worked at the city's University Hospital as a senior consultant. Of Tübingen, he finally moved to Würzburg.
Research and Volunteering
As a researcher, Klaus Wilms considered, inter alia with the proliferation and specialization of cells in blood formation.Another focus of his work focused on leukemia and malignant lymphoma. He was also involved in clinical bone marrow transplantation and blood stem cell transfusions after high-dose chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
When the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden Klaus Wilms worked from 1991 to 1994 with the founding committee. For two years he was Dean of the Medical Faculty of Würzburg, for six years a member of the Science Council.
