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Hans Vogel
Director 1963-1968

5.6.1945
Death of Bernhard Nocht in Wiesbaden near Frankfurt.

1950
Hans Vogel shows in a series of experiments over a period of 12 years, that macaques can be immunized against Schistosoma japonicum (causing the far eastern schistosomiasis).

1961
The helminthologist Hans Vogel publishes the life cycle of Echinococcus multilocularis.
Ernst Georg Nauck, Hans Vogel and Hans-Harald Schumacher undertake an expedition to Cameroon
and Sudan to look for a suitable location for a field station.
 



Hans-Harald Schumacher
Director 1968-1982

 

1963
Hans Vogel (1900-1980) is appointed successor of Ernst Georg Nauck as director of the institute.

1968
After several years of planning and construction, the new field station of the institute opens in Bong Town, Liberia. Hans-Harald Schumacher becomes director of the institute.

1982
After Hans-Harald Schumacher's term of office, a board of directors is installed to manage the institute.

1985
In a joint project with American colleagues, Paul Racz and Klara Tenner-Racz show that in HIV-infected patients, even in those who do not yet show any symptoms, massive viral replication takes place in the lymph nodes.

1986
The German Scientific Council publishes the evaluation of the scientific status of the institute. Main point of criticism is the neglect of modern methods.

 

 
 

 

 


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