Beatrice Hahn

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Full Name	Beatrice Hahn
Occupation	Virologist
Date Of Birth	Feb 13, 1955(1955-02-13)
Age	69
Birthplace	Munich
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Aquarius

Beatrice Hahn Biography

Beatrice Hahn is one of the most popular and richest Virologist who was born on February 13, 1955 in Munich, Germany. Beatrice Hahn was born in Munich, Germany on February 13th the 13th of February, 1955. Her passion for medicine started from a young age because she was heavily inspired by her father, who was a highly respected primary medical doctor. Her father was a physician in the outskirts of Bavaria where he was among the first doctors in the region to employ an X-ray machine to serve purposes of diagnosis. Her father permitted her to make use of the medical equipment he had as a child and she was enthralled when she studied urine samples under a microscope and discovering how about drawing blood. His dedication and passion to his work was a huge inspiration to Beatrice and she decided to began her journey to becoming an ophthalmologist when she started her studies.

When the year ended in 1983, George Shaw joined Gallo’s laboratory , and Shaw and Hahn began to work together in their research. Following a colleague researcher, Mikulas Popovic, successfully isolated and cultured the virus Hahn together with Shaw created a clone of the genome and became one of the very first researchers to have done so.

After graduating, Hahn began her career with a fellowship from the German Science Foundation in Robert Gallo’s National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. She decided to leave Germany because she believed she would have better opportunities for research and for funding in the United States. In 1985, she joined the faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and established her own laboratory. She was a co-director of the Center for AIDS Research at UAB from 2003 to 2011. In 2011, Hahn joined the faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania along with her husband and research partner George Shaw. Hahn and Shaw also work with CHAVI, a multi-institutional consortium. Hahn is the lead researcher of CHAVI’s Viral Biology Team.
In addition to her work in universities and as a researcher, Hahn is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. She is also a member of the advisory board of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Program and has served on numerous NIH Counsel groups.

After working at UAB, Hahn and Shaw moved to the Center for AIDS Research at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. There she has used non-invasive fecal sampling to investigate SIV and HIV in primate populations. Her research has also included the origins of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum; determining that P. falciparum was transmitted to humans from gorillas in a single event in West Africa.

Hahn quit the home she had been living in Germany and began study in the National Cancer Institute on May 1st 1982. She began her investigation into the causes of HIV/AIDS. AIDS was just beginning to become a common disease across the United States a year before she came to the country. The patients suffering from the illness were gay males, and had symptoms of skin cancer, as well as a distinct kind of pneumonia. Gallo’s laboratory was investigating this outbreak of the disease, and Hahn joined in the research.

Beatrice Hahn Net Worth

Beatrice Hahn is one of the richest Virologist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Beatrice Hahn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Beatrice H. Hahn (born 13 February 1955 in Munich, Germany) is a German-born American biomedical scientist and virologist. Hahn is an associate professor in the department of Medicine and Microbiology at the Perelman College of Medicine located at the University of Pennsylvania. The month of November, 2002 saw Discover magazine listed Hahn as one of the top 50 female scientists of the time.

Hahn quit her home to attend Medical school in Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany, where she obtained her M.D. degree in the year 1981. She was Intern at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich between 1981 and 1982. She earned the degree of Doctorate in Medicine at Technical University Munich in 1982.

Hahn and Shaw had many papers published (including a cover article for Nature) and in 1985 they were both recruited by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Comprehensive Cancer Center to lead and conduct human retrovirus research. Both excelled in their work and Hahn went on to become a distinguished professor in the Departments of Microbiology and medicine as well as work as co-director at the Center for AIDS research at UAB. Hahn and her long-time research partner George Shaw married in 1988.

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Beatrice Ranked on the list of most popular Virologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Beatrice Hahn celebrates birthday on February 13 of every year.

Top Facts about Beatrice Hahn

1. Beatrice Hahn is an American virologist and biologist.
2. She discovered the origins of HIV in chimpanzees.
3. Hahn received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
4. She is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
5. Hahn has published over 200 scientific papers.
6. Her research focuses on infectious diseases and their transmission.
7. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award.
8. Hahn is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
9. She was born in Germany but grew up in Switzerland.
10. Hahn’s work has helped to inform HIV prevention strategies worldwide.