Research

Arbeitsschwerpunkte:

Gerontologie, Entzündung und Herz‐ Kreislauferkrankungen, Nebenwirkungen von Implantaten

Career

• 2008 Professor Emeritus, Head: Laboratory of Autoimmunity, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University (MUI), Austria
• 1975-2007 Professor and Chairman, Division of Experimental Pathophysiology and Immunology (formerly Institute of Pathophysiology),Biocenter, MUI, Austria
• 2003-2005 President of the Austrian Science Fund (Wissenschaftsfonds-FWF)
• 1991-2003 Founder and Director, Institute for Biomedical Aging Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
• 1974 Full Professor of Immunopathology, Vienna, Austria
• 1971 Professor for General and Exp. Pathology (Immunopathology), Vienna, Austria
• 1967-1970 Center for Immunology, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
• 1967 Training in Internal Medicine, Floridsdorf Hospital, Vienna, Austria
• 1966 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Department of Virology, University of Vienna, Medical School, Austria
• 1965-1966 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of General and Experimental Pathology, University of Vienna, Medical School, Austria
• 1958-1964 Tutor, Medical School, University of Vienna, Institutes for Medical Physics, Anatomy and Pathological Anatomy, Austria
• 1958-1964 University of Vienna, Austria, MD

Projects

• 2011/2012 EU FP-7: TOLERAGE - Normalisation of immune reactivity in old age – from basic mechanisms to clinical application
• 2011/2012 Austrian Science Fund (FWF): Immunity to HSP60 in early atherosclerosis
• 2011/2012 EU FP-7: ECIBUG - European Initiative to Fight Chlamydial Infections by Unibased Genomics
• 2011/2012 Propter Homines Foundation, FL (Molecular Imaging of Atherosclerosis)
• 2011/2012 Lore and Udo Saldow Fund, Vienna (Fibrotic Side Effects of Silicone Implants)

Functions

• 2003-2005 President, Austrian Science Fund (Wissenschaftsfonds-FWF)

Honours and Memberships

• 2008 AESKU-Prize for Life Contribution to Autoimmunity, Porto
• 2008 Erwin-Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• since 2006 German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2006 Vienna Award for Humanistic Aging-Research, Austria
• 2006 Austrian Order of Merit for Science and Art
• 2004 Karl Landsteiner Medal of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI), Vienna, Austria
• 2002 Douglas C. Powers Award for Excellence in Aging and Vaccine Research, Washington DC, USA
• 1994 Austrian Scientist of the Year
• 1994 Award of the Austrian Foundation of the Prevention of Stroke
• since 1993 Academia Europaea
• 1993 Clemens von Pirquet Special Visiting Professor of the University of California at Davis, USA
• since 1990 Royal College of Pathologists - Fellow (FRCPath)
• 1988 The 18th Annual Ernest Witebsky Memorial Lecture at the Ernest Witebsky Center for Immunology and The Department of Microbiology, Buffalo, USA
• 1987 Award for Experimental Animal Research, Faculty Research Grant (FRG)
• since 1986 Gesellschaft der Ärzte, Vienna, Corresponding member
• 1986 Science Award of the State of Tyrol, Austria
• 1983 Corresponding Member Austrian Society for Respiratory Diseases and Tuberculosis
• 1981 Basedow Award of the German Society for Endocrinology
• 1975 Nestlé-Alete award of the Austrian Society for Pediatrics
• 1976 Austrotransplant Award