Hans Hellmuth Hirsch, MD, MSc, ProfessorFMH Infectious Diseases, FMH Internal Medicine, FAMH Medical Microbiology.
Research: Transplantation & Clinical Virology; Department Biomedicine, Medical Faculty, University of Basel
Diagnostics: Clinical Virology, Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Basel;
Clinics: Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
Hans H. Hirsch studied medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg (Germany) and biochemistry at Oregon State University (OR, USA). He then specialized in internal medicine, infectious diseases and medical microbiology at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel. In 2004, the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel appointed him as tenure track Professor for Medical Microbiology (Virology) with promotion to full professor in 2017. Currently, Dr. Hirsch holds a senior clinical appointment as consultant in infectious diseases at the University Hospital Basel and is in charge of the Clinical Virology
laboratory. Dr. Hirsch has (co-)authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, been invited to relevant international conferences and contributed to guidelines in infectious diseases, and transplantation.
Awards and honors:
- 1981 Exchange Fellowship State Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Oregon, USA
- 1986 Summa cum laude" Award for MD Thesis, Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg, Germany
- 1986 F. F. Nord Fellowship Biochemistry, University of Freiburg, Germany
- 1986 Graduate Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2000 Nils-Alvall Medal 2000 of the German Working Group for Clinical Nephrology
- 2000 Best Paper of the Year 2000, Alumni of the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel
- 2003 Swiss Research Award for Clinical Infectious Diseases (Pfizer Award)
- 2005 Mini-Sabbatical Adoptive T-cell transfer, in Houston, Texas, USA and in Pavia, Italy
- 2007 American Transplant Congress 2007, Scientific Board, San Francisco, USA
- 2008 Swiss Research Award for Clinical Nephrology (Pfizer Award) to Dr- Rainer Gosert, group member
- 2009 Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases Best Paper Award with Dr Nina Khanna, group member
- 2014-17 European Conference in Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Program Committee
- 2015 European Society of Organ Transplantation Travel Award to Dr Céline Leboeuf, group member
- 2015 Best Research Paper 2015, Award of the Swiss Transplantation Society
- 2016 Swiss HIV Award 2016, Best research project on virus transmission in HIV
Active Memberships:
- ASM American Society of Microbiology (www.asm.org)
- AST American Society of Transplantation (www.myast.org)
- EACS European AIDS Clinical Society (http://www.eacsociety.org/)
- EBMT European Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation (www.ebmt.org)
- ESCMID European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (www.escmid.org)
- ESPN European Society of Paediatric Nephrology (http://espn-online.org/)
- ESOT European Society of Organ Transplantation (www.esot.org)
- ICHS Immunocompromised Host Society (www.ichs.org)
- IPTA International Pediatric Transplantation Association (www.tts/ipta/home)
- SHCS Swiss HIV Cohort Study (www.shcs.ch)
- SSI Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases (www.sginf.ch)
- STCS Swiss Transplant Cohort Study (www.stcs.ch)
- TTS The Transplantation Society (www.tts.org)
- Working Groups and Councils:
- AST Infectious Disease Community of Practice (Councillor-at-large 2013 – 2015)
- ICHS International Councilor (2015 - 2017)
- EBMT Infectious Disease Working Party (ongoing)
- ECIL European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia (ongoing)
- ESGICH ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ongoing)
- SHCS Member Scientific Board, and Member of Clinical Laboratory Conference (ongoing)
- STCS Member of scientific board, and Infectious Disease group (ongoing)
- SCCS Member of the laboratory board (ongoing)
- TTS-TID Transplant Infectious Disease Councilor for Africa-Europe-Middle East (2015 - 2017)
