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Biography
1981 High school degree with distinction
1981-1987 Study of Medicine, parts I to III with distinction
1987 M.D. degree at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1988 Training in molecular biological techniques in Salzburg at the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Dr. M. Susani) and at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics (Prof. M. Breitenbach)
1988-1993 Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology, Division of Immunopathology (Prof. D. Kraft), University of Vienna
1993 General and special training on care and handling of radioactive substances, Seibersdorf, Austria
1993 Habilitation in General and Experimental Pathology, University of Vienna Medical School, Associate Professor (a. o. Univ. Prof. 1996)
1993-now Head of the group “Molecular Immunopathology” in the Division of Immunopathology (Prof. D. Kraft), Dept. of General and Experimental Pathology, Vienna General Hospital, University of Vienna, now Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, MedUniVienna, Austria
1994-1995 Training in hematology, internal medicine and design of clinical studies at the University clinics, Vienna, General Hospital (Dept. of Hematology, Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology), Austria
1996 Board certified specialist in Pathophysiology
1998 Board certified specialist in Immunology
1998 a.o.Prof. for Pathophysiology
2000-2015 Chairman of the standardization committee of the International Union of Immunological Societies IUIS, www.iuisonline.org/pages/standard.htm
2001-now Head of the Division of Immunpathology, Dept. of Pathophysiology, Vienna General Hospital, University of Vienna, Austria, now within the Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna
2002-2012 Speaker and co-ordinator of the FWF-funded special research program F18 “Molecular and immunological strategies for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Type I allergies” at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria
2004 Professor for Allergology, Medical University of Vienna
2005-2007 Vice president of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology
2006 Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2006-2012 Head of the “Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Research” at the Dept. of Pathophysiology, Medical University of Vienna
2006-2008 President elect of the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology
2008-2010 President of the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology
http://www.oegai.org/html/
2012-2020 Speaker and co-ordinator of the FWF-funded special research program F46 “Towards prevention and therapy of allergy” at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. http://www.allergy-research-program.at/cms/
2013-2021 Deputy Speaker of the FWF-funded PhD program “Molecular, cellular and clinical allergology” at the Medical University of Vienna. http://www.phd-mcca.at/
2020-2023 Speaker and co-ordinator of the Danube Allergy Research Cluster “Towards cure of allergy” funded by the Country of Lower Austria.
https://www.kl.ac.at/en/research/working-groups/danube-arc
2021-2023 Speaker of the Immunology Research Cluster of the Medical University of Vienna