Stephan Tanneberger

Stephan Grunwald (* December 27, 1935 in Chemnitz ) is a German physician and chemist (GDR) was active in the German Democratic Republic in senior positions in the research and treatment of cancer. So he worked from 1975 to 1990 as director of the Central Institute for Cancer Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. In 1991 he left Germany and has been dedicated to tasks of palliative care of cancer patients mainly in Italy and countries of the Third World. In 2005 he founded the Centre for Peace in Anklam work - Otto Lilienthal - Hanseatic City of Anklam.

Life

Stephan Grunwald was born in 1935 in Chemnitz and graduated from the University of Leipzig to study chemistry and medicine, which he graduated three years later in 1961 with a scientific as well as with a medical doctorate. After he was also his habilitation in 1970 in Leipzig, he worked from 1971 as a senior physician, from 1972 as a senior consultant and from 1973 as deputy medical director at the Central Institute for Cancer Research ( CIC ) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin-Buch. In 1974 he was appointed by the Academy as professor of clinical and experimental tumor biology and a year later the director of the Institute after its founding director Hans Gummel had died in 1973 and his deputy Arnold Graffi and Theodor Matthes had the Institute initially co-chaired an interim basis. He led the CEC and the National Cancer research and cancer control program of the German Democratic Republic until January 1990 and was the beginning of the year 1989, Chairman of the newly created Centre for Medical Science at the Academy, which coordinates the activities of all medical AdW facilities and the municipal hospital in Berlin Book coordinated.

After the political change in the GDR and the German reunification in 1990, Stephan Grunwald worked as an oncologist for the World Health Organization ( WHO) in several developing countries, including Bangladesh, India, North Korea and Albania. In 1993 he took a leading position in the Italian organization Associazione Nazionale Tumori ( ANT) whose activity embraces especially the palliative care of cancer patients in their home environment and cancer prevention. A year later he was appointed Secretary General of ANT International and 2000 for the scientific director of the Institute ANT. At the same time he is teaching at the University of Bologna since 1993 professor. In 2005 he took over the management of the Black Sea Programme of the European School of Oncology, which aims to improve the education and training as well as the information and experience exchange in the field of cancer control in the countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Georgia, Romania and Ukraine is. 2008 came to the area of ​​the Euro -Arab School of Oncology. About his experience of treating terminally ill cancer patients, he has written several books.

In addition to his medical work Stephan Tannenberger is active in the field of peace work. In 2005, he called the Foundation Centre for Peace Work - Otto Lilienthal - Hanseatic City of Anklam in life. He has since become chairman of the foundation board and has made major contributions to the partial restoration of the former Wehrmacht prison in Anklam, as well as the local project forest for peace and against climate change, contributing since 2010 to the Billion Tree Campaign of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP).

Stephan Grunwald was married from 1970 to 2000 and is the father of one son and two daughters.

Awards

Stephan Tannenberger were several national and international awards to participate. These included, among others, in the GDR in 1986 the awarding of the title " Honored Scientist of the people" and from 1981 and from 1989 the corresponding ordinary membership in the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. In March 2012, he was awarded the Silver Seal of the University of Bologna.

Writings (selection )

  • Experimental and clinical tumor chemotherapy. 2 vols. Stuttgart / New York 1980; 2nd edition Berlin 1986.
  • Cancer: contributions to the prevention, early detection and treatment of malignant neoplasms. Jena 1981.
  • The Control of Tumour Growth and its Biological Bases. Boston and The Hague in 1983.
  • Someone in my family has cancer. What can I do? Munich 1995.
  • There will be a beautiful Spring: experiences of a cancer doctor on three continents. Berlin 1998.
  • Neko u mojoj porodici ima rak: sta mogu da ucinim? Novi Sad 2001.
  • Terminal cancer. Munich 2001.
  • Sara una meravigliosa primavera. Bologna 2002.
  • Life leaves: experiences in the fight against cancer and war. Berlin 2003.
  • Cancer in Developing Countries: The Great Challenge For In The 21st Century Oncology. Munich in 2004.
  • ESMO Handbook of Advanced Cancer Care London / New York 2006.
  • Emergency landing. Kückenshagen 2010.
  • Ethics in medical research in the GDR. Greifswald 2010.
  • Getting old - (k ) a feat? Munich 2013.
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