Helga ruebsamen biography

Helga Ruebsamen (4 September 1934 – 8 November 2016) was a Dutch writer.
Helga Ruebsamen was a Dutch writer.
Helga Ruebsamen was born on September 4, 1934 in Batavia, Batavia, Dutch East Indies [now Jakarta, Indonesia].

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Helga Rübsamen-Schaeff

Professor Dr. Helga Rübsamen-Schaeff was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Anti-Infective Research at Bayer HealthCare (Germany) and is now Chief Executive Officer of the Bayer Corporation spin-off AiCuris GmbH (‘anti-infective cures’) which she has headed since its foundation. Her research interest as a biochemist was in cancer research where she pioneered the study of retroviruses. Later, she began research on Aids in which she developed tests and proved the existence of several different HIV viruses. Within Bayer AG and later AiCuris GmbH she has developed new drugs. One of the many awards that Professor Rübsamen-Schaeff has gained is the Mestermacher prize ‘Manager of the Year 2004’.

Chemistry of all subjects

When she started to study chemistry at the University of Münster the number of female students in this area was extremely low, 10 % female students compared with 90 % male students. In the late 1960s young women who enrolled in universities were suspected of searching for husbands rather than being really interested in their studies. Chemist

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Helga Ruebsamen

Winternachten 1998

East- and West-Indian Winternight

With: Aart van Zoest, Arahmaiani, Arthur Japin, Astrid H. Roemer, Basha Faber, Coen Pronk, Cynthia Mc Leod, Frank Martinus Arion, Gamelan Ensemble Widosari, Grupo Zamanakitoki, Helga Ruebsamen, Michaël Zeeman, Monique Hoogmoed, Paula Gomes, Paulette Smit, Radhar Panca Dahana, Rudy Kousbroek, Shrinivási, Toeti Heraty, Warih Wisatsana

The third edition of the Indische Winternacht, this time from the East and West-Indiest. Apart form artists from Indonesia and The Netherlands, now also writers, musicans and story-tellers from Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles were invited.
Michaël Zeeman and Aart van Zoest interviewed the participating writers after their performance. They were introduced by Nelleke Noordervliet.
In the theatre programme: gamelan-music by Ensemble Widosari, stories by Coen Pronk, Moniek Hoogmoed and Paulette Smit and music by Eric Calmes and his Antillian-Dutch band Grupo Zamanakitoki.
In the film programme unique movies from the Dutch archives were shown: the first documentaries on

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Helga Rübsamen-Schaeff

since 2022 Member, acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, Germany
2020 Loeffler Frosch Medal, German Society for Virology GfV, Germany
2019 Innovation Award, State of North-Rhine Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 German Future Prize, German Federal President’s Prize for Technology and Innovation
since 2018 Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany
since 2017 Honorary Member, GDCh, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2015 Distinguished Woman in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
2004 Female Manager of the Year (Mestemacher Prize), Mestemacher Management GmbH, Gütersloh, Germany
1995 Cross of Merit 1st Class, Federal Republic of Germany
1983 Karl-Winnacker Grant, Hoechst Foundation, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1979-1982 Habilitation Fellowship, German Research Society (DFG)
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA
Member, German Society for Virology GfV, Germany