Rudolf Pichlmayr
Rudolf Pichlmayer (16 May 1932 in Munich, Germany – 29 August 1997 in Acapulco, Mexico) was a German surgeon and head of the Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery Department of the Hannover Medical School. He was one of the leading transplant physicians in Germany. He is considered a pioneer in liver transplantation. The introduction of the term "transplantation medicine" goes back to Pichlmayr. Life Rudolf Pichlmayr grew up in Munich and studied medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University from 1951 to 1956. He then worked as an assistant doctor in pathology and pediatric surgery before joining Rudolf Zenker at the surgical clinic of the University of Munich in 1960. Pichlmayr's main focus in training at Zenker was the treatment of immunological problems that occur in the form of rejection reactions after transplantation of foreign tissue. His habilitation thesis was groundbreaking for the development of early immunosuppressive methods. For example, the first heart transpl ...
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Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by population, third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 11th-largest city in the European Union. The Munich Metropolitan Region, city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar (a tributary of the Danube) north of the Northern Limestone Alps, Bavarian Alps, Munich is the seat of the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the population density, most densely populated municipality in Germany (4,500 people per km2). Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialects, Bavarian dialect area, ...
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