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Poster Prize for René Platzer at the 12th YSA PhD-Symposium

At the 12th YSA PhD-Symposium of the Medical University of Vienna, held from 9 – 10 June 2016, René PLATZER was awarded a Poster Prize.more

 

Poster Awards for Azra Mustedanagic and Michiel Wijnveld at the 35th Annual Meeting of the ÖGHMP in Zell am See

At the Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (ÖGHMP), held from May 30 to June 2, 2016 in Zell am See, Salzburg, Azra Mustedanagic, MSc. and Ing. Michiel Wijnveld won a Poster...more

 

EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 supports project “FOLSMART” of Hannes Stockinger and Anna Repic

In January 2016, a new Horizon 2020 project entitled “Folate-Target Nanodevices To Activated Macrophages For Rheumatoid Arthritis – FOLSMART” starts at the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Center for...more

 

Poster Prize at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Tropical Medicine, Parasitology and Migration Medicine for Anna-Margarita SCHÖTTA

At the 49th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Tropical Medicine, Parasitology and Migration Medicine (ÖGTPM), held from 12 – 14 November 2015 in Vienna, Anna-Margarita Schötta was awarded the Poster Prize 2015.more

 

Great success for the 7th EFIS-EJI South Eastern European Immunology School (SEEIS2015)

At this year's summer school, held from 16 – 19 October 2015 in Becici, Montenegro, participants from all over the world could benefit from lectures and workshops in basic and clinical immunology.more

 

Opening of the 14th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and other Tick-Borne Diseases

Congress president Gerold Stanek opened the Congress on September 27, 2015 in the presence of more than 400 participants from all continents, together with Allen C. Steere, who discovered in 1975 the Lyme disease.more

 

140 Years Hygiene Institute celebrated at the 6th Center's Retreat

At the beginning of the 6th Retreat of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, held on September 22, 2015, Rector Schütz was honored and the 140th anniversary of the Insitute for Hygiene and Applied...more

 

Poster prizes at the 6th Center's Retreat

At the 6th Retreat of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, held on September 22, 2015, 94 projects were presented as short presentations and posters. The best presentations were awarded, 5 awardees out of...more

 

Österreichischer Hygiene-Preis für Sílvia Cervero-Aragó

Im Rahmen des 23. Dosch-Symposiums für Krankenhaushygiene, das vom 15. bis 17. Juni 2015 in Velden am Wörthersee stattfand, wurde der österreichische Hygiene-Preis an unsere Mitarbeiterin Sílvia Cervero-Aragó verliehen.more

 

Award for Alexander ZWIRZITZ at the 11th YSA PhD-Symposium

At the 11th YSA PhD-Symposium of the Medical University of Vienna, held from 10 – 11 June 2015, Alexander ZWIRZITZ from the Molecular Immunology Unit received a Best Oral Presentation Award.more

 

Appointment of Johannes HUPPA as Associate Professor

Johannes Huppa, PhD, was appointed Associate Professor by the Rector in June 2015 because of his outstanding achievements in the Immune Cognition Group of the Molecular Immunology Unit.more

 

TU Wien und MedUni Wien forschen gemeinsam im Interuniversitären Kooperationszentrum „Water and Health“

Im Interuniversitären Kooperationszentrum (ICC) „Water and Health“ forschen TU Wien und MedUni Wien gemeinsam daran, die hohe Qualität des Wiener Trinkwassers für die Zukunft zu sichern.more

 

Karin Pfisterer is "Researcher of the Month" March 2015

Mag. Dr. Karin Pfisterer of the Molecular Immunology Unit of the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology has been awarded the title "Researcher of the Month" March 2015 by the Medical University of Vienna.more

 

WWTF promotes a project of Johannes Huppa with 582.000 EUR

Johannes Huppa from the Institute of Hygiene and Applied Immunology receives a grant of 582.000 EUR from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) for his project "High-Resolution Imaging to Unravel the Molecular Etiology of...more

 

Florian Forster was awarded the Thesis Prize of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology

At the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI), held from November 6 – 8, 2014 in Salzburg, Florian Forster received this prestigious award.more

 

Habilitation colloquium of Miranda SUCHOMEL – congratulations !

On 15th October 2014 Miranda Suchomel from the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology habilitated in the special field "Hygiene".more

 

Great success for the 6th EFIS-EJI South Eastern European Immunology School (SEEIS2014)

At this year's summer school, held from 26 – 29 September 2014 in Timisoara, participants from all over the world could benefit from lectures and workshops in basic and clinical immunology.more

 

Poster prizes at the 5th Center's retreat

At the 5th Retreat of the Center held on September 16, 2014, 78 projects were presented as short presentations and posters. The best presentations were awarded, 5 awardees out of 13 are from our Institute!more

 

Poster prize at the 11th EFIS-EJI Tatra Immunology Conference from 6 – 10 September 2014 for KARIN PFISTERER

At the 11th EFIS-EJI Tatra Immunology Conference from 6 – 10 September 2014 in Strbske Pleso, Slovakia, a jury of six top international researchers selected three posters out of 56 for the poster prize.more

 

Poster Prize for the Institute on the Conference of the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (ÖGHMP)

Anna-Margarita Schötta, Michael Reiter, Andreas Müller, Hannes Stockinger and Gerold Stanek.more

 
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Hannes Stockinger awarded Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st Class

Great honour for Head of MedUni Vienna's Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology

Hannes Stockinger, Head of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology and also Head of one of the Center’s subunits (Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology) at the Medical University of Vienna, has been awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st Class.

The Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art is awarded by the Austrian President on the recommendation of the Federal Government or a government-authorised Federal Minister.
Hannes Stockinger is Professor of Molecular Immunology and Head of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology and Head of the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology, one of the Center’s subunits at the Medical University of Vienna. With 300 employees, the Center is one of the largest translational preclinical research institutes of the Medical University of Vienna. Stockinger was also co-founder and CEO of the biotech SME BMT [Centre of Excellence for Biomolecular Therapeutics].

Discoverer of the "lipid raft"

Hannes Stockinger and his research team were the first to discover and characterise a series of critical receptors/ligands on the cell membrane of immune cells and to discover how immune cells use these to communicate with each other to protect our bodies. Together with Vaclav Horejsi (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), he also discovered how a group of receptors, the so-called GPI proteins, which are anchored in the outer plasma membrane layer by glycolytic glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI), transmit signals via the plasma membrane: namely via cell membrane structures that are now referred to as lipid rafts and are regarded as the central switching points for the transmission of information from the cell environment into the cell interior via the cell membrane.

Pioneer of monoclonal antibodies

The tools used for structural and functional characterisation of these receptors were and still are monoclonal antibodies (mAb). Stockinger learned how to produce them in a pioneering project when he was a doctoral student in Walter Knapp’s laboratory in the 1980s. These mAb are still used for research into the immune system and for diagnosing autoimmune diseases and leukaemia. His team at the time was the first to use mAb therapeutically, thereby laying the foundation for the immunotherapies that are now used so successfully in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune reactions as well as in organ transplantation. On the strength of these achievements, Hannes Stockinger has been a member of the international Human Cell Differentiation Molecules Council for 15 years. This is the body that allocates the CD nomenclature for diagnostic and therapeutic antibodies.

Working closely with biophysicist Gerhard Schütz (Technical University of Vienna), Stockinger also built high-resolution microscopes. For the first time, these nanoscopes enabled them to resolve individual molecules (especially membrane receptors) in living (immune) cells and study them. These studies provide a completely new insight into the organisation and workings of the molecules in cells, thereby providing a basis for developing new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. These research papers have been published in more than 20 publications, including some of the top-ranking journals from Nature Publishing Group.
Alongside the analysis of biochemical processes on a nanoscopic level, Stockinger is also interested in researching the targeted and safe delivery of drugs by new types of liposomes. Based on impressive in-vitro and mouse studies, these liposomes are already being manufactured for a Phase-1 clinical trial for treating rheumatoid arthritis (funded by an EU project). A third current research interest is the development of improved diagnostic techniques for bacterial diseases, especially Lyme's disease (also funded by the EU).

Hannes Stockinger's research work is documented in 200 scientific papers (some of which have appeared in top-ranking journals such as Cell, Science, Nature Methods, Nature Immunology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and Science Signaling).

Involvement in professional societies and education

Hannes Stockinger has carried out numerous functions in national and international research associations and organisations. For example, he was President of the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Science Fund, treasurer of the European Federation of Immunological Societies, and much more. He is currently President of the Federation of Austrian Scientific Societies, which has 160 member societies and approximately 30,000 individual members. 
One of his major interests is the promotion and education of young scientists. 

As the first Curriculum Director (2003-2010) and Chairman of the Curriculum Committee for Doctoral Studies (2010 to the present day), he has built up the Medical University of Vienna’s PhD capability by creating one of the most successful PhD schools, which currently supervises 1,400 PhD students. He founded the Young Scientist Association (YSA) and the PhD Symposium at our university and has personally guided 36 students through their PhDs. He has also supervised countless undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Many of his PhD students came from Eastern European countries. This taught him a lot about the problems of scientists in these countries, inspiring him to help them in their efforts to achieve Western standards. Examples of this are: since 2000 he has worked with Vaclav Horejsi to organise the renowned biennial Tatra Immunology Conference in Slovakia. In 2009, he founded the South Eastern European Immunology School, which has now been held 10 times (in all the Balkan states, in Romania and Ukraine right through to Armenia). He has received multiple distinctions for his work in South Eastern Europe: these include Guest Professor of the University of Kragujevac, Serbia, Honorary Member of the Georgian Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Honorary Award from Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Ukraine, Honorary Medal from Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Ukraine and Adjunct Professor of Immunology at Jerewan State Medical University, Armenia.

Link: This article on the website of the MedUni Vienna.

07.11.2018

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