Otto Roth Award 2010

Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Rademacher is awarded for his dissertation on "Investigations into Viral Entry Mechanisms and Carbohydrate-Protein interactions using NMR Experiments". The award winner and his work are presented by Prof. Dr. Thomas Peters, Director of the university`s Institute of Chemistry and Metabolomics.

The Otto Roth Award is the Medical Faculty`s annual award for an outstanding doctoral thesis donated by the Society of the University`s Alumni with an amount of 2.500 Euros.
It is named after Professor Otto Roth (1863-1944), the University`s first specialized surgeon. He became head of the Clinic of Surgery in Luebeck`s General Hospital (1897-1933) and collaborated with Heinrich Dräger (1847-1917) for the development of the world world-famous Dräger-Roth anaesthetic apparatus, allowing the thrive of modern anaesthesiology.