Herald zur Hausen

Herald zur Hausen was born March 11, 1936 in Gelsenkirchen, Province of Westphalia,went to the Gymnasium in Vechta, and studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Hamburg and Düsseldorf and received a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1960 from the University of Düsseldorf, after which he became a medical assistant.

Is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cancer of the cervix, where he discovered the role of papilloma viruses, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008. Apart of this nobel prize he has archived more prizes, he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2008 for his contributions to medical science. and he also shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus.



Zur Hausen's specific field of research is the study of oncoviruses ( a virus that can cause cancer ). In 1976, he published the hypothesis that human papillomavirus plays an important role in the cause of cervical cancer. He is also credited with discovery of the virus causing genital warts (is a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease caused by some sub-types of human papillomavirus). as well as techniques to immortalize cells with Epstein-Barr virus and to induce replication of the virus using phorbol esters. His work on papillomaviruses and cervical cancer received a great deal of scientific criticism on initial unveiling but subsequently was confirmed and extended to other high-risk papillomaviruses.


Despite the effectiveness of cytology-based cervical cancer prevention programs, cervical cancer remains the third most common cancer in women globally after breast and colorectal cancer. However, 86% of all deaths caused by cervical cancer occur in developing countries. This graphic   shows the annual number of deaths from cervical cancer in developed and developing regions by age group, and it is evident that the number of deaths in developing countries is nearly 10 times greater than in developed regions.

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