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Karin Mölling

b. 1943

German virologist

VirologistUniversity teacher
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Born 1943. Karin Mölling is a German virologist and university teacher.

Karin Mölling (often cited in English as Moelling; born 7 April 1943 in Meldorf, Dithmarschen, Germany) is a German virologist whose research focused on retroviruses, particularly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). She was a full professor and director of the Institute of Medical Virology at the University of Zurich from 1993 to 2008. She is retired but retains affiliations with the University of Zurich and with the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.

Education and career Mölling was born in Meldorf, Dithmarschen, Germany in 1943. She received a Diploma in nuclear physics in 1968 from the University of Kiel. After a fellowship for training in molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, she returned to Germany for her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research (now the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology), awarded in 1972. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Robert Koch Institute and later at the University of Giessen, where she took her Habilitation in biophysics in 1977. and supervised around 100 master's and PhD students. Her work in this area led to the development of a DNA-based candidate HIV vaccine for which she led clinical trials. on virus diagnostics;

Awards and honors Mölling has received a number of academic recognitions during her career:

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Virologist, university teacher
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Education
Kiel University, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen
Employers
University of Zurich
Awards
Aronson Prize; Meyenburg Prize; Order of Merit of Berlin; Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; EMBO Membership

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German virologist

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Karin Mölling was born on 7 April 1943 in Meldorf.

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Karin Mölling is a virologist and university teacher.

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Karin Mölling is German.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Karin Mölling

· Wikidata: Q15451496

· DBpedia: Karin Mölling

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