Erwin Tschachler CV

CLINCIAL CURRICULUM

• 1978         M.D. degree from the University of Vienna, Austria
• 1983-1986    Dermatology Residency, Dept of Dermatology I, Univ. of Vienna Medical School
• 1989-1992    Staff member at the Dept of Dermatology I Univ. of Vienna Medical School
• 1990    Appointment as Associate Professor of Dermatology
• 1992-1996    Staff member at the Department of Dermatology Univ. of Vienna Medical School
• 1996 - present    Full Professor of Dermatology and Venereology at the Medical University of Vienna

RESEARCH CURRICULUM

• 1982-1986    Immundermatological research
• 1986-1989    Retrovirological Research at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA (M: Reitz Jr., R.C. Gallo)
• 1989-1996    Senior investigator at the Dept. of Dermatology, Univ. of Vienna Medical School.
• 1996-2004    Laboratory chief at Dept  of Dermatology at Univ. of Vienna Medical School
• 1996-2012    Scientific Director of the CE.R.I.E.S., Neuilly sur  Seine, France
• 2004-  present Head of Research Division for Skin Biology and Pathobiology at the  Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna
• Relevant scholarships/awards/patents
• 1986-1988     Max Kade Fellowship;
• 1986         Unilever Award of the Austrian Society of Dermatology
• 1987    AIDS Research Award of the Austrian Society for Immunology and Allergology;
• 1990,1994    Award of the Hoechst-AG;
• 1994         Ferdinand von Hebra Award of the Austrian Society of Dermatology
• 1999         AESCA Award of the Austrian Society of Dermatology
• 2011     Hellerström Lecturer, Department of Dermatology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm,
• 1013        Visiting Professorship University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
• 2014        Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2015        Honorary Fellow’ of the Australasian College of Dermatologists,

Honorary Member of the Romanian Society of Dermatology and Venereology (2012), the Finnish Society of Dermatology (2013), the Serbian Society of Dermatology and Venereology (2013), the Greek Society of Dermatology and Venereology (2015); the French Society of Dermatology (2015), The Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (2015)
        
Member of Editorial boards of international scientific journals

• Journal of Investigative Dermatology (JID)
• Experimental Dermatology  
• Journal of Dermatological Science (JDS)
• Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV)

Positions held in professional societies

• European Academy  of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) http://www.eadv.org/  (Board member    since 2001, Secretary General 2010-2012 EADV EADV President Elect 2012-2014, President 2014-2016, Past president 2016-2018)

• Austrian Society of Dermatology and Venerology (OEGDV) http://www.oegdv.at/cms/ (Board member since 1994, President 2012-2014)

• Austrian AIDS Society (founding member 1990, board member, president 2001-2004)

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dermatologische Forschung (ADF) (board member 1990-1994)

• European Society of Dermatological Research (ESDR) (board member 1999-2004)

Main Scientific Contributions:

• Discovery of a new cell type (gamma delta T cells) in mouse skin (first author); first description of dendritic cells in airway epithelium (co-author); first demonstration of HIV-infection in cells of the dendritic cell/macrophage lineage (first author) and HIV replication in Langerhans cells (corresponding author); demonstration of lymphotoxin regulation by HTLV-1 (first author); characterisation of the cellular lineage of Kaposi’s sarcoma tumor cells (corresponding author); identification of T cells as targets for HHV-6 infection (co-author); Demonstration of involvement of Caspase 14 in terminal keratinocyte differentiation (corresponding author); Demonstration of filaggrin knock down on skin barrier function (corresponding author); Demonstration of the impact of histamine on the skin barrier (corresponding author)

• More than 250 peer-reviewed scientific articles in international, peer reviewed journals

• >12.000 cumulative citations (Citation report – Web of Science)

• H-index 58 (Citation report – Web of Science)