Obituary: Axel Rethwilm (1959–2014)

Ben Berkhout,Robin A Weiss,Myra O Mcclure,Dirk Lindemann,Ottmar Herchenröder,Carsten Scheller,Andrew Ml Lever,Maxine L Linial,Arifa S Khan,Otto Erlwein,Jochen Bodem,Martin Löchelt

doi:10.1186/s12977-014-0085-9

Abstract

Obituary: Axel Rethwilm (1959–2014)

Highlights

It is with deep sadness that the retrovirus community learned of the passing of Axel Rethwilm, Professor of Virology in Würzburg, Germany, just a few days before his 55th birthday
At 38, Axel was appointed as a full Professor of Virology in Dresden and in 2003 he succeeded Volker ter Meulen to the Chair of Virology at Würzburg
In the first decade of Axel’s career, much of foamy viruses (FV) research was dominated by the question of which disease(s) may be caused by the so-called human foamy virus (HFV) [2]

Summary

Introduction

It is with deep sadness that the retrovirus community learned of the passing of Axel Rethwilm, Professor of Virology in Würzburg, Germany, just a few days before his 55th birthday. Axel (Figure 1) studied Medicine in Freiburg where he obtained his doctorate before joining the retrovirus laboratory in the Institute for Virus Research at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

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