Biography
Hentze obtained his Abitur from the Ratsgymnasium in Rheda-Wiedenbrück in 1978. He studied medicine at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany, and at the Medical Schools of Southampton, Oxford, Glasgow, and Cambridge, UK. In 1984 he obtained the German medical board certification and received his M.D. from the University of Münster for his work on lysosomal enzyme biogenesis and transport in the laboratory of Kurt von Figura. In 1990, he obtained his Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Hentze is married and has three daughters. He regularly participates in city marathons of the World Marathon Majors series (New York, Boston, Chicago, London, Berlin) and is a qualified member of the Berlin Marathon Jubilee Club.
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