The Nagasaki Dr.Nagai Peace Memorial Prize
The 8th Prize Winner
1 Name and age
Christoph Reiners (age 64, Federal Republic of Germany)
2 Curriculum Vitae
| 1971 | Graduated from the University of Würzburg Medical School |
| 1971 - 1987 | Specialization in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Würzburg |
| 1987 - 1989 | Associate professor at the University of Essen |
| 1989 - 1994 | Full professor and head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Essen |
| 1994 - present | Full professor and head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Würzburg |
| 2001 - present | Managing Medical Director, University Hospital Würzburg |
3 Major accomplishments
| 1989 | Honorary member of the Austrian Association for Radiological Protection in Medicine |
| 1990 - 1996 | Chairman, German Association of Medical Radiation Protection |
| 1996 | Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1996 - 1998 | Chairman, German Radiation Protection Committee |
| 2000 | Awarded the Francisca Scorina Order of Belarus |
| 2002 | Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
| 2003 | Appointed Dr.honoris causa of the Belarusian Medical State University, Minsk |
| 2005 –present | Director, German Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization's Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Assistance Network |
| 2010 | Awarded Light of Life honorary award, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, New York |
About what winning the 8th Nagasaki Dr.Nagai Peace Memorial Prize means to him.
It is a great honor or me to have been selected as the 8th awardee of the Dr. Nagai Peace Memorial Prize. I want to express my deepest gratitude for this award, which is dedicated to the improvement in the welfare of people affected by atomic bombs or radiation exposure.
I have specialized in radiation protection and medical management of radiation disease, the most impressive thing is that I have involved in the treatment of an obvious epidemic of childhood thyroid cancer after the Chernobyl accident. At that time, state of the art treatment of patients with advanced stages of the disease was not available in Belarus, so we decided to install a program which aimed at medical support for diseased children on the one hand and training and education of physicians from Belarus on the other hand. And we invited 247 children to Germany. Now I am really happy to say that all of the 247 children respond well to the treatment 17 years after the start of this project, and that they are now young adults, already having their own families.
Even though it is passed more than 20 years after the Chernobyl reactor accident, international cooperation have been continued and especially that with Japan has been developed much more than. And Wurzburg university has made academic arrangements with Nagasaki university. I would like to continue friendly and cooperative ties between the two universities and also contribute towards the goal of achieving world peace.
