Peter Propping (* 21 December 1942 in Berlin) is a German Humangenetiker. It concerns itself particularly with the study of genetic causes of the epilepsy. In addition it is since 2001 member in the national ethics advice.

Life

Peter Propping studied medicine at the free University of Berlin and worked afterwards as a scientific assistant on Institut for human genetics of the University of Heidelberg. Its Habilitation as Humangenetiker took place there 1976. In the consequence Peter Propping received a scholarship of the Heisenberg donation for genetics in the psychiatry. From 1980 to 1983 he worked at the same time on Zentralinstitut for mental health in Mannheim and on Institut for human genetics of the University of Heidelberg and became there a specialist for human genetics.

Since 1984 is Peter Propping professor for human genetics and director of the institute for human genetics of the University of Bonn. At the medical faculty it was Dekan from 1990 to 1992, from 1994 to 1996 pro rector of the University of Bonn. In addition he is speaker of the Graduiertenkollegs "“pathogenesis of diseases of the nervous system"”. The spheres of activity of Peter Propping cover the medical genetics, in particular the transmission of neuropsychiatric diseases and hereditary cancer arrangements, as well as the genetic variability of receptors in centers nervous system, the study of genetically complex diseases and the history of the human genetics and Eugenik.

Memberships

Peter Propping is since 1997 member in the medical adviser of the German cancer assistance and since 2003 as a chairman. Since 1999 it is member in the board of directors German reference center for ethics in life sciences and since 2001 member in the project committee of the national Genomforschungsnetz (NGFN). Its appointment to the national ethics advice took place 2001 via resolution of the Federal Cabinet.

Selected publications

Ethics

• Propping, P., bulkhead, H. (1992). Science on erring ways. Biologismus eugenics Eugenik. Bonn/Berlin
• Propping, P. (2001). Of the sense and a goal of the human genetics. In: Honnefelder, L., Streffer, C. (Hrsg). Yearbook for science and ethics, Bd 6:89 - 106
• Honnefelder, L., Propping, P. (Hrsg.). (2001). What do we know, if we know the human Cologne, 9-102
• Propping, P. (2002). The liberty of humans in the age of the genetics. In: Elsner, N., writer, H. - L. (Hrsg.). What are Goettingen, 127-142

Science

• Propping, P. (1989). Psychiatric genetics. Findings and concepts., Berlin/Heidelberg/New York.
• Stone flax, o.k., Mulley, J. C, Propping, P., Wallace, R.H., Phillips, H.A., Sutherland, G.R., Scheffer, Ith E., Berkovic, S.F. (1995). A missense mutation into the neurally nicotinic acetylcholine receptor a4 subunit is associated with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontally praises epilepsy. Nature Genetics 11:201 - 203 Abstract
• Biervert, CH., Schroeder, B.C, cubic, CH., Berkovic, S.F., Propping, P., Jentsch, T.J., stone flax, o.k. (1998). A potassium channel mutation in neonatal human epilepsy. Science 279:403 - 406 Abstract
• Jungck, M., Friedl, W., Propping, P. (1999). The genetic bases of hereditary tumor diseases of humans. Onkologe 5:855 - 866

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