豪森，德国人，出生于1936年，36岁担任德国埃朗根-纽伦堡大学病毒学教授，并开始研究人乳头状瘤病毒（HPV）等病毒与宫颈癌之间的关系。他用了十多年时间终于发现某些类型的HPV就是宫颈癌的病原体，这一发现为开发出宫颈癌疫苗打下了基础。豪森现任职于德国癌症研究中心。
Harald zur Hausen (born March 11, 1936 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany) is a German medical scientist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cancer of the cervix, where he discovered the role of papilloma viruses, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008.
Zur Hausen studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Hamburg and Düsseldorf and received a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1960 from the University of Düsseldorf, after which he became a medical assistant.
Two years later, he joined the Institute for Microbiology at the University of Düsseldorf as a laboratory assistant. After three and a half years, he moved to Philadelphia and worked at the Virus Laboratories of the Children's Hospital. He became an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1969, he became a regular teaching and researching professor at the University of Würzburg, where he worked at the Institute for Virology. In 1972, he moved to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1977, he moved on to the University of Freiburg (Breisgau).
From 1983 until 2003 zur Hausen served as a chairman and member of the scientific advisory board of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ in German) in Heidelberg. He also is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cancer.
Zur Hausen's specific field of research is the study of oncoviruses. In 1976, he published the hypothesis that human papilloma virus plays an important role in the cause of cervical cancer. His research contributed to the development of a vaccine which was introduced in 2006. See also HPV vaccine.
He received the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2008 for his contributions to medical science. He also shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Luc Montagnier and Fran?oise Barré-Sinoussi, who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus.
