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Der „Grandmaster of Testosterone“ Prof. Eberhard Nieschlag feierte seinen 80. Geburtstag - Biermann Medizin
Am 16. Juli hat Prof. Eberhard Nieschlag, Gründer und langjähriger Direktor des heutigen Centrums für Reproduktionsmedizin und Andrologie (CeRA) in Münster, seinen 80. Geburtstag gefeiert. Der Testosteron-Experte legte in seiner […]
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One of the brightest minds in the field of endocrinology/andrology!
One place has already been named after him - albeit unofficially: Eberhard Nieschlag in the inner courtyard of the CeRA, a resting place that the team likes to use during breaks. Photo: WWU / Peter Leßmann
When Carl Djerrassi, the "father of the antibiotic pill", came to Germany from California, he usually had two goals: a specialist congress in Berlin, Hamburg, or Munich and - the University of Münster (WWU). Because a man with whom the chemist had a long friendship still works there today. There are many anecdotes about Nieschlag, but hardly one says more about the reputation that this scientist enjoyed and enjoys the WWU worldwide.
Nieschlag has been in demand in various national and international bodies throughout his life. Until 2019 he worked for the German Medical Association, the umbrella organization of all German state medical associations, on the Scientific Advisory Board. His expertise was sought in overcoming ethical and social challenges resulting from new developments such as “artificial insemination”.
As one of his main focuses, the two-time doctorate researcher has been researching the pill for men for decades. The "Grandmaster of Testosterone" - to which the American Androgen Society has chosen him on the current occasion - supervised 182 scientific employees and 140 doctoral students during his career. His successors, Prof. Sabine Kliesch and Prof. Stefan Schlatt, have successfully continued the concept of the close interlinking of clinical-scientific research and practical application, according to the Münster University Hospital in a current press release.
After completing his medical studies in Bonn in 1967, the Bad Godesberg native received his clinical training as an internist and endocrinologist at the university clinics in Mainz and Düsseldorf. His scientific work took Nieschlag to London, Edinburgh, and Washington, among others. The reputation of the University of Münster reached him in 1976: A new interdisciplinary department for the treatment of unfulfilled desire to have children was to be set up there. Nieschlag headed this department, Experimental Endocrinology at the University Women's Clinic in Münster for ten years. The innovative thing about it: For the first time, infertile couples were treated together in one center and no longer separately by gynecologists and urologists.
Nieschlag was initially head of a previous CeRA institution, namely the reproductive medicine research group of the Max Planck Society in Münster, until he first established and shaped the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and finally the CeRA from 1986 onwards. He headed the center until 2007, making it an institution with a worldwide reputation. Nieschlag is the editor of nine books and has written more than 250 articles and 800 articles that have appeared in books and scientific journals. The physician who is one of the founding members of the Association of Alumni and Friends of Münster University Medicine medAlum eV is also an emerituscounts, stayed active: He continues to publish, takes part in research projects, is involved in continuing medical education, and is currently preparing the fourth edition of the andrology book at Springer-Verlag. As the managing director, the balance worker heads QuaDeGA GmbH, the quality control program of the German Society for Andrology with 700 affiliated laboratories. His everyday life will not change with the “8” as the first number of the age: “I still go to CeRA almost every day and on my birthday I will do that even more than usual because the cake was announced”, the jubilee smiled in advance his birthday party.
