Published 9 December 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a2930
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2930

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A Nobel cause

Annette Tuffs, freelance journalist

1 Heidelberg

atuffs@web.de

Annette Tuffs talks to Nobel prize winner, Harald zur Hausen, about his career

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Harald zur Hausen’s small office is on the bottom floor of a three storey building that might well be named after him in the future, but now is called Applied Tumour Virology and belongs to the German Cancer Research Centre next door.

At 72, zur Hausen, one of the three Nobel prize laureates in medicine 2008, comes here almost every day, whenever his commitments as a much sought after speaker at meetings allow. Although he retired as chairman of the cancer research centre in May 2003, he remains active in research, especially in the search for viruses. He tells me that viruses are responsible for about 20% of all malignant tumours and so need to be explored much further "The most likely candidates for viral aetiology are lymphoma and leukaemia," he says, pointing out that new viruses and subtypes are detected every year.

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