Opening ceremony: Center for Translational Medicine and Eric Kandel Institute – Center for Precision Medicine
Opening remarks
Markus Müller
Rector of the Medical University of Vienna & Chairman of the Supervisory Board of University Hospital Vienna
Herwig Wetzlinger
Director of the University Hospital Vienna
Eva-Maria Holzleitner
Federal Minister for Women, Science and Research of the Republic of Austria
Michael Ludwig
Mayor of the City of Vienna
Keynote
Robert A. Harrington
Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA
Herwig Czech
Institute for Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna
Nazism, persecution and the historical legacy of the Vienna Medical School
Christoph Binder
Department of Laboratory Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna
Creating a new space for the medicine of the future
Closing remarks
Eva Dichand
Chair of the University Council of the Medical University of Vienna
Maria Sibilia
Chair of the Senate of the Medical University of Vienna
Members of the families of Eric Kandel and Eugene Braunwald will be present as honorary guests at this special event.
The opening proceedings will be held in English.
Robert A. Harrington
Keynote SpeakerRobert A. Harrington is an internationally renowned physician specialising in cardiology. Since 2023, he has been Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, one of the leading academic health centers in the USA.
Prior to this, he headed the Department of Internal Medicine at Stanford University for over a decade and served as Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. His research focuses on cardiovascular medicine, interventional cardiology and digital innovations in healthcare. Harrington was President of the American Heart Association and is regarded as one of the world’s leading figures in academic medicine.
Registration
This event is open to the public. We look forward to your participation!