Georg Wick#
| Membership Number: | 1437 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Professor Emeritus, Head: Laboratory of Autoimmunity, Biocenter, MUI
- 1975 - 2007 Professor and Chairman, Division of Experimental Pathophysiology and Immunology (formerly Institute of Pathophysiology),Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University (MUI)
- 1974 Full Professor of Immunopathology, Vienna
- 1971 Universitäts-Dozent for General and Exp. Pathology (Immunopathology), Vienna
- 1970 - 1974 Head Immunopathology Section, Institute for General and Experimental Pathology, University of Vienna Medical School, Austria
- 1967 - 1970 Center for Immunology, State University of New York at Buffalo, N.W. (Head: E. Witebsky)
- 1967 Training in Internal Medicine, Floridsdorf Hospital, Vienna, Austria
- 1966 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Department of Virology, University of Vienna, Medical School, Austria
- 1965 - 1966 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of General and Experimental Pathology, University of Vienna, Medical School, Austria
- 1958 - 1964 Tutor, Medical School, University of Vienna, Institutes for Medical Physics, Anatomy and Pathological Anatomy
Fields of Scholarship
- Immunology of atherosclerosis with special emphasis on the autoantigenic role of heat shock proteins
- Clinical immunology with special focus on autoimmune disease
- Immunology of fibrosis
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists - Fellow (1990)
- Member of the Academia Europaea (1993)
- Austrotransplant-Biotest-Award (2000)
- Member of the Leopoldina (2006)
- Erwin-Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2008)
