Günter Weiss#
| Membership Number: | 6069 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://inneremed2.tirol-kliniken.at/page.cfm?vpath=index |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0709-2158 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Full Professor (§98) of Internal Medicine and Director of Department of of Internal Medicine II (Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Rheumatology, Pneumology), Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI)
- 2009 Chair of Comprehensive Center for Infection, Immunology and Transplantation at MUI
- Director of Christian Doppler Laboratory for Iron Metabolism and Anemia research (since 2017)
- 2009 Appointment as Professor for “Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases”, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
- 2003 - 2012 Vice -Director at the Department of Internal Medicine I
- 1999 - 2012 Head of the unit for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, MUI; Head of the research laboratory for “Molecular Immunology and Infectious Diseases”
- 1993 & 1995 Research fellowships at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Gene expression programme, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1990 - 1993 Research assistant at the Inst. of Med. Chem.& Biochem.,University of Innsbruck
Fields of Scholarship
- Regulatory interactions between iron/zinc homeostasis
- Immune-metabolism of host pathogen interaction and anti-cancer immune regulation
- Regulatory pathways of lipid homeostasis and its alterations during infection and inflammation
- Host-pathogen interaction and macrophage biology
- Anemia of chronic disease
- Clinical infectious diseases
- Genetic and environmental imbalances of iron homeostasis in systemic disorders
Honours and Awards
- 2915 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Science
- 2020 Honorary Ambassador of Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- 36 national and international personal scientific awards (including Novartis award for medicine 1998 or Kraupp award for the best habilitation in Austria in 1999)
