Damage-associated Molecular Patterns in Human Diseases: Danger Signals As Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Therapeutic Targets (2) - Couverture souple

Land, Walter Gottlieb

 
9783030538705: Damage-associated Molecular Patterns in Human Diseases: Danger Signals As Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Therapeutic Targets (2)

Synopsis

Describes current knowledge of the role of DAMPs in inducing immune responses

Explores the significance of DAMPs in a wide range of human diseases

Explains how innovative data from immunity and inflammation research are impacting on clinical practice

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À propos de l?auteur

Walter G. Land is Professor Emeritus of the LMU University in Munich, Germany. After earning his MD, he spent 4 years specializing in Experimental Surgery, Immunology, and Organ Transplantation at the Institute for Surgical Research, LMU University, Munich. In 1979 he performed the first pancreas transplant in Germany at Klinikum Großhadern, where he subsequently spent almost 30 years as Head of the Transplantation Center. He also held a position as C3 Professor for Surgery and Transplantation Surgery in Munich for almost 20 years, until 2004. He is Emeritus Professor at LMU University Munich (Germany), while also holding a position as Professeur Conventionné at the University of Strasbourg (France). Professor Land has been a co-founder of many European and German Societies, including the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT), European College of Organ Transplantation, the German Transplantation Society (DTG), the German Academy of Transplantation Medicine (DAT), and theInternational DAMPs Association (IDA). He is also an honorary member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the European Academy of Tumor Immunology; elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; a member of the Transplantation Society and the German Society for Immunology.

Professor Land has chaired the European Society for Organ Transplantation, the Society of Transplantation and Innate Immunity, and the Society of Innate Immunity. He is the author or editor of many articles and books, was awarded the Erich Lexer Prize by the German Surgical Society in 1991, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1996, the Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit in 1997, the Millennium Medal of the Transplantation Society in 2000, and the Maharshi Sushruta Prize for Transplantation Biology in India in 2005.


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9783030538675: Damage-associated Molecular Patterns in Human Diseases: Danger Signals As Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Therapeutic Targets

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ISBN 10 :  3030538672 ISBN 13 :  9783030538675
Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020
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