Professor Lutz studied veterinary medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and in 1971, graduated with a "Dr.med.vet." from the same school. The research for his thesis focussed on aspects of milk hygiene. Thereafter he joined the Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Zurich, to undertake a two year research project on mastitis.

After completing his PhD, he joined the Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Zurich, to undertake a two year research project on mastitis. This was followed by two years working in mixed animal practices in the cantons of Zurich, Schaffhausen, Solothurn and Berne. In 1975, he returned to academia and worked for three years in the fields of biochemistry and immunology at the Institute of Pharmacology and Bacteriology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zurich. The focus of his research was the typing of muscle fibres using enzymatic and immunologic methods. In 1978, he moved to the USA, where he spent three years working on feline virology and immunology with Dr. Niels Pedersen at the University of California, Davis.

In 1981, he returned to become Head of the Clinical Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zurich. His research interests cover the pathogenesis and immunoprevention of retro- and coronavirus infections, with particular reference to the cat, and the epidemiology and molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases in domestic and free ranging animals, once again, with special emphasis on felids.

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