Hans's Christian Korting (* 21. March 1952 in is a German dermatologist and Allergologe.

Life

Korting studied medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg university Mainz from 1970 to 1976, where he was also attained a doctorate to 1977. From 1977 to 1979 it experienced a micro-biological partial further training in central medicalofficial mechanisms of the German Federal Armed Forces. The further training to the dermatologist took place at the hospital and health center for Dermatologie and Allergologie of the Ludwig Maximilians university in Munich, here took place also the Habilitation 1985. At this hospital it is until today actively, at present as an academic director.

Emphasis of its scientific activity is the characterisation of the emergence of located mushroom infections of the skin and the very close mucous membranes. In the center are located thereby sezernierte Aspartatproteinasen of Candida albicans as Virulenzfaktor and mad like receptors as relevant mediators of the inflammatory landlord answer. A substantial goal participates, to it orients arzneiliche active substances for the treatment and preventing from mushroom infections to to develop. The interest applies beyond that for the development of new biotechnological medicaments (among other things plasmin) as well as of small molecules, which are able to affect the signal transduction in the context of the inflammation, e.g. Sphingosin-1-Phosphat. He got, among other things a number of scientific prices lent Paul Gerson Unna price of the German Dermatologi society as well as the research promotion price of the German-language Mykologi society.

It is in several specialized companies in the executive committee actively, in particular at the German-language Mykologi society as well as the society for Dermopharmazie, along-created by it. He is publisher and/or co-editor of a number of medical technical periodicals, among other things "„mycoses ", "„internationally journal OF Antimicrobial Agents " and "„American journal OF Clinical Dermatology ".

Professor Dr. Hans Christian Korting published more than 300 scientific work and 16 books.

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