Kurt Zatloukal#
| Membership Number: | 3671 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://forschung.meduni-graz.at |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 - present Professor of Pathology
- 1991 - 1993 Postdoc at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (I.M.P), Vienna, Austria, in the group of Prof. Max L. Birnstiel (development of gene therapies for cancer)
- 1985 - 1991 Residence for pathologist at the Institute of Pathology, University of Graz, Austria (Head: Prof. Helmut Denk), with specialization in Molecular Pathology
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular pathology
- Metabolic liver diseases
- Cancer
- Biobanking
- Research infrastructures
Honours and Awards
- 2000 –2003 Member of the board of the Austrian Science Fund
- 2001 - 2009 Member of the Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery
- 2001 Founder of Oridis-Biomed (CEO 2001-2005)
- 2002 - 2005 President of the Austrian Society of Genetics and Gene Technology
- 2002 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2002 - 2007 Member of the OECD task force on biological resource centres
- 2004 - 2011 Member of the Roadmap (thematic) Working Group of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure (ESFRI)
- 2009 Member of the Austrian “Arzneimittelbeirat”
- 2009 Santa Chiara Chair at the University of Siena
- 2009 -2012 Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee
- 2010 Director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory “ Biospecimen Research and Biobanking Technologies”
