CeMM PI Andreas Bergthaler nominated "Austrian of the Year 2019, Category Research"
We congratulate CeMM PI Andreas Bergthaler, who has been nominated “Austrian of the Year 2019” in the "Research" category. Join us in supporting Andreas’ work and nomination!
Vote for Andreas Bergthaler <link https://diepresse.com/unternehmen/austria19/5082997/index?cat=2 _blank external-link-new-window "Opens internal link in current window">via the online system.</link>
The #Austria19 award is organized by the newspaper Die Presse in collaboration with the ORF, the Austrian Broadcasting Cooperation, and is given to individuals who made outstanding contributions in the fields of science, economics and humanity.
The research of Andreas and his team focuses on how inflammatory processes are regulated and how the immune system responds to viral infections. At CeMM, he has already gained important new insights into the molecular understanding of hepatitis, pneumonia and metabolic diseases in infections.
Andreas Bergthaler studied veterinary medicine in Vienna. He undertook graduate and postgraduate research with Hans Hengartner and Nobel Laureate Rolf Zinkernagel at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich followed by postdoctoral positions at the University of Geneva and the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. He is recipient of an ERC Starting Grant and several awards including the Löffler-Frosch-Prize of the Society of Virology (2016), the Georges-Köhler Prize of the German Society for Immunology (2016), the Seymour and Vivian Milstein Young Investigator Award of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society (2016) and the Austrian Infection Research Prize of the Austrian Society for Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (2017). Andreas Bergthaler co-founded the clinical-stage immunotherapy company Hookipa Pharma. He joined CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as Principal Investigator in 2011.
This is the second time a CeMM researcher has been nominated for this public voting. In 2011, CeMM’s Scientific Director, Giulio Superti-Furga, received the award in the same category for bringing scientific excellence and innovation to Austria.
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