Johannes Löwer (born 20 November 1944 in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

) is an Austrian/German biochemist and physician, who served as President of the

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from 1999 to 2009 and as President of the

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from 2009 to 2010. He studied medicine in Würzburg and Tübingen, earned a doctorate in medicine in 1970 and then went on to study biochemistry; he earned a master's degree in biochemistry in 1975 and a

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in medical virology at the

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in 1990. He joined the Paul Ehrlich Institute as a scientist in 1981, and headed the department of virology from 1988 to 1991. In 1991 he became the Institute's vice president; he became acting president 1999 and was formally appointed as the Institute's permanent president in 2001.Prof. Johannes Löwer ist Präsident des Paul-Ehrlich-Instituts
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