Curriculum Vitae#

Hans Lutz qualified from the veterinary faculty of Zurich (Switzerland) in 1971. After several years of bacteriology and mastitis research, clinical work (Clinic of Gynaecolog

of Zurich) and a postgraduate course in Experimental Biology and Medicine, (University of Zurich) Dr Lutz worked two years at the Institute of Pharmacology and Biochem

Zurich) before spending three years studying virology and immunology at the University of California Davis with Prof. Niels C.Pedersen.

Dr. Lutz has been full professor in clinical laboratory medicine and he was director of the clinical laboratory at the Veterinary Faculty in Zurich, from 1981 until his retirement.

He served as President of the Swiss National Centre for Retroviruses (AIDS reference laboratory of Switzerland) from 1995 til 2008. He holds a degree in laboratory and basic sciences

of the Swiss Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (FVH) and obtained the specialist diploma for laboratory medical analysis (Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences) FAMH.

His research interests include Feline viral and especially retroviral infections, Animal Models for AIDS, Feline immunology and vaccinology, tick-borne infections and clinical laboratory diagnostics in

veterinary medicine.

He authored and coauthored over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has published several book chapters and reviews and is frequently invited as guest lecturer or speaker.

He was Member of the cat specialist group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and a founding member of the EU concerted action on FIV Vaccination. Member of the

advisory board to the Veterinary University in Vienna. Hans Lutz is co-editor-in-chief of the textbook "Diseases of the cat" (Enke Verlag, 5 editions). He obtained several awards among them the science award

of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association in 2001. He is also member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.