Hans Lutz#
| Membership Number: | 5962 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- July 31st, 2011 Professor emeritus
- July 1st., 1981 - July 30th 2011 Full professor, clinical laboratory diagnostics; Director, Clinical Laboratory, Vetsuisse-Faculty Faculty, University of Zurich
- Oct. 1, 1995 - October 31 2008 President, Swiss National Center for Retroviruses, University of Zurich (AIDS reference laboratory of Switzerland)
- 1990 - 2011 Director, Center for Clinical Studies, Faculty of Vet. Medicine, Univ. of Zurich
- 1994 - 2003 Representative of the Zurich Faculty in the Ph.D. commission of the Faculty of Vet. Medicine, Univ. of Berne
- Founding member Ph.D. commission, Faculty of Vet. Medicine, Univ. of Zurich (as of 2003). External reviewer for habilitations to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich
- March 2006 - June 2010 Associate Dean, Vetsuisse Faculty
Fields of Scholarship
- Clinical laboratory diagnostics in veterinary medicine
- Ehrlichial and anaplasmal infections in animals and man
- Feline viral infections, emphasis on retroviruses and coronaviruses
- Feline immunology and vaccinology
- Animal Models for AIDS
Honours and Awards
- 1984 GST award, Swiss Veterinary Association
- 1990 Schunk award, University of Giessen
- 2001 Science award of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association
- 2002 Schalm lectureship, University of California Davis
- 2002 Member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Honorary member, Swiss Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians
