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Year of election: | 2001 |
Section: | Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine |
City: | Bonn |
Country: | Germany |
Peter Propping was director of the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Bonn from 1984 to 2008. He systematically developed the field for disease-oriented etiological research and disease prevention. After the Nazi-period he was one of the first to successfully re-introduce psychiatric genetic research in Germany.
In cooperation with genetic epidemiology Propping’s group mapped disease genes for bipolar affective disorder. These endeavours made the University of Bonn an internationally visible place for the study of genetically complex diseases. In addition Propping and colleagues have shown that persons at risk for one of the various forms of inherited colon cancer can be saved from early death.