Hans Hellmuth Hirsch
Hans Hellmuth Hirsch, MD, MSc, Professor, FMH Infectious Diseases, FMH Internal Medicine, FAMH
Medical Microbiology, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Hans H. Hirsch studied medicine 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. Currently, Dr. Hirsch is director of the
Division of Infection Diagnostics and leads the research group Transplantation & Clinical Virology. He
holds a senior clinical appointment as consultant in infectious diseases at the University Hospital in
Basel with special focus on transplant and HIV-infected patients. Dr. Hirsch contributed to relevant
international guidelines in transplantation such as AST IDCOP, KDIGO, CIBMT, and ECIL-4.
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 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, Cleona Rooney, Houston, Texas, USA
2005 Mini-Sabbatical Adoptive T-cell transfer Patrizia Comoli, Pavia, Italy
