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Günther Körmöczi
Prof. Günther Körmöczi, M.D., MMEDeputy Head of the Dept. of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, Head of Red Cell Laboratory and Granulocyte Immunology

Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy
Position: Associate Professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-5490-9987
T +43 1 40400 53200
guenther.koermoeczi@meduniwien.ac.at

Keywords

Blood Group; Granulocyte Immunology; Hemolysis; Immunization; Immunohematology; Red Cell; Transplantation Immunology

Research interests

International research projects on immunohematology, hemolytic diseases, the genetic and phenotypic characterization of blood group variants, hemogenetics with emphasis on chimerism and mosaicism, transplantation immunology, granulocyte physiology and inflammation and studies on quality management.

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

Specialized on immunohematologic studies, a wide array of extended serologic and molecular genetic methods as well as flow cytometry are employed.

Selected publications

  1. Kohl, M.M. et al. (2024) ‘High Rate of Passenger Lymphocyte Syndrome after ABO Minor Incompatible Lung Transplantation’, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 209(8), pp. 995–1000. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202306-1107oc.
  2. Dauber, E. et al. (2024) ‘Body‐wide chimerism and mosaicism are predominant causes of naturally occurring <scp>ABO</scp> discrepancies’, British Journal of Haematology, 205(3), pp. 1188–1196. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.19618.
  3. Dauber, E.-M. et al. (2018) ‘Somatic mosaicisms of chromosome 1 at two different stages of ontogenetic development detected by Rh blood group discrepancies’, Haematologica, 104(3), pp. 632–638. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2018.201293.
  4. Papay, P. et al. (2012) ‘High Risk of Transfusion-induced Alloimmunization of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease’, The American Journal of Medicine, 125(7), pp. 717.e1-717.e8. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.11.028.
  5. Körmöczi, G.F. et al. (2007) ‘Mosaicism due to myeloid lineage–restricted loss of heterozygosity as cause of spontaneous Rh phenotype splitting’, Blood, 110(6), pp. 2148–2157. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2007-01-068106.