At the Annual Congress of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Geneva, Switzerland, Barbara Gepp was awarded an EAACI Travel Grant, a Junior Members Poster Prize and a Best Oral Presentation Award for her presentation:
Epitope grafting between the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 and its homologue Api g 1 produces chimeric proteins with highly different lysosomal stability.
Oral presentation at the EAACI Congress, June 16-20, 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
At the World Allergy Congress 2011 in Cancun, Mexico, members of or division won several awards: Ursula Smole won a travel grant and a Junior Members Outstanding Oral Abstract Award from the World Allergy Organization (WAO) for her presentation:
Specific Recognition of the Major Birch Pollen Allergen Bet v 1 Programs Dendritic Cells to Induce Either Th2 or Tolerogenic Responses.
Oral presentation at the World Allergy Congress, December 4-8, 2011, Cancun, Mexico
Barbara Gepp won a Travel Grant from the WAO for her presentation:
Grafting of Bet v 1 Epitopes Onto Its Homologue Api g 1 Reveals Patient-Specific IgE Recognition Profiles.
Oral presentation at the World Allergy Congress, December 4-8, 2011, Cancun, Mexico
Eva Guhsl won a travel grant from the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology for her presentation:
IgE From Birch Pollen Allergic Patients Cross-Reacts with Two Distinct Bet v 1 Related Proteins in Mung Beans: Vig r 1 and Cytokinin-Specific Binding Protein.
Poster presentation at the World Allergy Congress, December 4-8, 2011, Cancun, Mexico
At the annual meeting of the Austrian Society of Allergy and Immunology in Graz, Barbara Gepp won a poster prize for her presentation:
Grafting ob Bet v 1 epitopes onto its homologue Api g 1 reveals patient-specific IgE recognition profiles.
Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Socienty of Allergy and Immunology, September 15-17, 2011, Graz, Austria
Ursula Smoe, Heimo Breiteneder, Daniela Ackerbauer, and Barbara Gepp at the 2011 EAACI Congress in Istanbul.
At the 30th Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Istanbul, Turkey, Ursula Smole, Daniela Ackerbauer and Barbara Gepp were awarded a travel grant, a poster prize and a JMA poster prize for their presentations:
Lipid raft mediated uptake of the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1.0101 activates Th2 polarising signaling pathways in dendritic cells of allergic donors.
Oral presentation at the 30th Congress of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, June 11-15, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
Allergy 2011, 66 Suppl. 94, 54.
Recombinant scFv antibodies against chimeric proteins of Bet v 1 and Api g 1 for IgE epitope mapping.
Poster presentation at the 30th Congress of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, June 11-15, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
Allergy 2011, 66 Suppl. 94, 723.
Epitope grafting reveals patient specific IgE binding profiles to the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1.
Oral presentation at the 30th Congress of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, June 11-15, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
Allergy 2011, 66 Suppl. 94, 99.
The Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology awarded Christian Radauer with the Clemens von Pirquet Award for Allergy Research for his publication:
Allergens are distributed into few protein families and possess a restricted number of biochemical functions.
J Allergy Clin Immunol 2008, 121, 847-52.
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Christian Radauer, Wolfang Schütz, head of the MUW, and Otto Scheiner, chairman of the research support division.
Christian Radauer was elected Researcher of the Month by the Medical University of Vienna in January 2008 for the development of the AllFam database of allergen families.
Stefan Wagner won the Advancement Award of the City of Vienna in the category Science.
At the XXVII EAACI Congress in Barcelona, Spain, June 7-11, 2008, Ulrike Griesmeier, Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber, and Ursula Smole won a Poster Award each for their poster presentations:
Effect of pH on thermal stability and IgE binding ability of whiff parvalbumin.
Allergy 2008, 63 Suppl. 88, 67-8
The EuroPrevAll allergen library: high quality purified natural and recombinant allergens from nuts and seeds including walnut, sesame, soybean, mustard and wheat for in vitro diagnosis.
Allergy 2008, 63 Suppl. 88, 572
Different polarization of Th responses by dendritic cells (DCs) of birch pollen allergic and non atopic donors pulsed with Bet v 1 and homologous food allergens.
Allergy 2008, 63 Suppl. 88, 255
Jörg Kleine-Tebbe, member of the organizing committee, and Christian Radauer
At the 2nd International Symposium on Molecular Allergology in Rome, Italy, April 22-24, 2007, Christian Radauer won the 1st Poster Award for his presentation:
Radauer C, Mari A, Breiteneder H: Classifying allergens into protein families - the AllFam database.
Karin Hoffmann-Sommergrubeer won the Emerald Literati Network Award in the category Outstanding Paper for the publication:
Attitudes towards low-allergen food in food allergic consumers.
Nutr Food Sci 2005, 35, 220-8.
Merima Bublin won a Poster award at the XXV EAACI Congress in Vienna, Austria for her presentation:
Purification and partial characterisation of a 40 kDa allergen from kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa).
At the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology in San Antonio, Texas, Heimo Breiteneder was awarded the Elliott Middleton Memorial Lectureship Award.
Merima Bublin won the 3rd thesis award of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology for her thesis Characterization of food and pollen allergens.
Stefan Wagner won the award of the sanofi-aventis Stiftung zur Förderung der medizinischen Forschung in Österreich for his achievements in developing mimotope-based melanoma vaccines.
Stefan Wagner was awarded the Advancement Award for Interdisciplinary, Innovative Cancer Research of the City of Vienna.