Harald zur hausen biography of rory anderson

After three and a half years, he moved to Philadelphia and worked at the Virus Laboratories of the Children's Hospital together with the famous husband and wife virologists, Werner and Gertrude Henle, who had to escape from Nazi Germany. In a ground-breaking study, he contributed to finding for the first time that a cancer virus Epstein-Barr virus can transform healthy cells lymphocytes into cancer cells.

Harald zur hausen biography of rory anderson: A Nobel Prize in Physiology or

This directly showed that viruses can cause cancer cell formation. He became an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In , he moved to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In , he moved on to the University of Freiburg Breisgau , where he headed the department of virology and hygiene. Working with Lutz Gissmann, zur Hausen first isolated human papillomavirus 6 by simple centrifugation from genital warts.

Together with Ethel-Michelle de Villiers, who would marry zur Hausen after his divorce from his first wife, this group isolated HPV 6 DNA from genital warts, suggesting a possible new way of identifying viruses in human tumors. This sparked a major scientific controversy with other scientists favoring herpes simplex as a cause for cervical cancer.

He also is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cancer. He is author of the book Infections Causing Human Cancer from