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Scientific Expertise

Curr. Vitae

1999 Certified for Human Genetics
1997 Visiting Professor an die Pathologie der University of Massachussetts in Worcester
1996 Member of the WHO Committee for the classification of lung tumors, and panel member for pathology, IASLC
1996 Visiting Professor Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Pathology, Houston, Texas
1993 Prof. of Pathology
1991 Papworth-Hospital, Cambridge, England, Transplant pathology
1990 Certified for Cytopathology
1989 Lovelace Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, Albuquerque, Methods of Inhalation Toxicology, DNA-Adducts, cell culture, and inhalation experiments in laboratory animals
1988 Lovelace Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Methods of Inhalation Toxicology
1988 Stanford University, Dept. of Pathology, Transplant, and Cardiac Pathology
1986 -2007 Setting up the Laboratory for Environmental Pathology, 1988 as Laboratory for Respiratory and Environmental Pathology, and since 1996 as Laboratory for Molecular Cytogenetics, Respiratory and Environmental Pathology and Head of the Laboratory
1986 Tenureship
1986 Pulmonary Pathology Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC, Department of Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology, and Department of Surgical Pathology Mayo-Clinic, Rochester, MN.
1985 Associate Professor for anatomical Pathology
1984 Transplantation pathology Institute of Pathology University of Munich
1981 -2007 Specialisation in Lung Pleura and Mediastinal Pathology
1975 -1984 Assistant Institute of Pathology University of Graz
1974 Institute of Pharmacology University of Freiburg
1973 -1975 Assistant Institute of Pharmacology University of Graz
1965 -1973 Medical School University of Graz

Awards

2015 European Society of Pathology Advanced Training Center for Giordano Fellowship Program
2006 Certificate of Appreciation for Medical Education, Adana
2003 Certificate of Appreciation for Medical Education, Cracow
2002 Medal of the Swedish Medical Association for Medical Education
2002 Certificate of Appreciation for Medical Education, Moscow

Appointments/Memberships in Professional Societies

2005 -2017 Amerikanische Krebsforschungsgesellschaft
Mitglied
1995 -2017 Lungenpathologiegesellschaft
Mitglied
1992 -2017 Europäische Gesellschaft für Lungenerkrankungen
Mitglied
1989 -2017 US-Kanadische Akademie für Pathologie
Mitglied
2011 -2016 Europäische Gesellschaft für Pathologie
Chairman of the ESP education committee
2012 -2015 Europäische Gesellschaft für Pathologie
Member of Executive Committee
2011 -2013 Österreichische Gesellschaft für Pathologie und IAP Division
Mitglied des Vorstands
2008 -2013 College der Amerikanischen Pathologen
International Fellow
2009 -2012 Fort- und Ausbildungskommittee, Europäische Gesellschaft für Pathologie
Member of Education Committee
2009 -2010 Österreichische Gesellschaft für Pathologie und Österreichische Division der IAP
President
2000 -2010 Working Group of Pulmonary Pathology der ESP
Past President until 2009
2007 -2008 Österreichische Gesellschaft für Pathologie
President elect
2004 -2007 Lateinamerikanisch-Europäische Arbeitsgruppe für Lungenpathologie
Chairman
2000 -2006 Österreichische Gesellschaft für Pathologie
Fachvertreter

Editorial board appointments for scientific journals

2021 -2025 CANCERS: Associate Editor
2024 -2024 TUMOR DISCOVERY: Editor-in-Chief
2018 -2023 FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY: Associate editor
2017 -2020 TRANSLATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH: Associate Editor
2013 -2020 JOURNAL OF THORACIC ONCOLOGY: Editorial Board Member

Reviewer for scientific journals

2001 -2019 VIRCHOWS ARCHIV-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
2007 -2019 CANCER LETTERS
2007 -2019 LUNG
2007 -2019 LUNG CANCER
2008 -2019 PAEDIATRIC RESPIRATORY REVIEWS
2009 -2019 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
2009 -2019 HUMAN PATHOLOGY
2009 -2019 PATHOBIOLOGY
2009 -2019 THE CLINICAL RESPIRATORY JOURNAL
2010 -2019 RESPIRATORY RESEARCH
2011 -2019 BIOMARKERS IN MEDICINE
2011 -2019 BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
2011 -2019 JOURNAL OF CLINICAL BIOINFORMATICS
2011 -2019 JOURNAL OF THORACIC ONCOLOGY
2011 -2019 PATHOLOGY ONCOLOGY RESEARCH
2011 -2019 PLOS ONE
2011 -2019 RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
2014 -2019 ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
2015 -2019 BIOMARKERS : BIOCHEMICAL INDICATORS OF EXPOSURE, RESPONSE, AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CHEMICALS
2015 -2019 ONCOLOGY
2015 -2019 ONCOTARGET
2015 -2019 PEDIATRICS
2017 -2019 BMC CANCER
2018 -2019 BMJ OPEN
2018 -2019 BMJ OPEN RESPIRATORY RESEARCH
2018 -2019 FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
2019 -2019 CASE REPORTS IN MEDICINE
2019 -2019 CELLS
2019 -2019 CLINICAL LUNG CANCER
2019 -2019 CLINICS
2019 -2019 COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
2019 -2019 CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
2019 -2019 CYTOMETRY
2019 -2019 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
2019 -2019 Future oncology
2019 -2019 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY
2019 -2019 JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
2019 -2019 THE CLINICAL RESPIRATORY JOURNAL
2009 -2016 CLINICS
2009 -2016 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY
2010 -2016 PATHOLOGE
2015 -2016 CANCER INVESTIGATION
2015 -2016 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NANOMEDICINE
2011 -2014 MEMO - MAGAZINE OF EUROPEAN MEDICAL ONCOLOGY
1998 -2012 EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Expert for appointment/habilitation procedures

2011 Habilitation: Gutachter: Universität Zürich

Reviewer/Expert funding organizations

2006 -2017 Wilhelm Sander Stiftung - Germany
2016 -2017 Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank (ÖNB) - Austria
2006 -2013 COFIN –Italian Ministery of Science and Research (MUIR Ministerio dell’ Istruzione, dell’ Universita e della Ricerca) - Italy
2006 -2007 Forschungsförderungskommission der Medizinischen Universität Graz - Austria

Organizer of scientific conferences, Chairs

2024 Postgraduate Course in Lung, Pleural & Mediastinal Disease
Organisator
2018 Postgraduate Course Lung & Pleural Diseases.
Organisator
2017 Postgraduate Course Lung & Pleural Diseases
Organisator
2017 Frühjahrstagung - Gemeinsame Fortbildungstagung für Biomedizinische Analytikerinnen und Ärztinnen
Mitglied Organisationskomitee
2017 Frühjahrstagung - Round table Diagnostik seltener Mutationen im NSCLC - Welche Marker sind relevant für die klinische Praxis
Chair
2016 Postgraduate Course Lung and Pleural Diseases
Organisator
2015 Workshop in neoplastic and non-neoplastic lung pathology
Organisator
2014 Postgraduate Course Lung & Pleural Diseases Autumn 2014
Organisator
2014 Postgraduiertenkurs Nicht-neoplastische Lungenpathologie
Organisator
2014 Postgraduate Course Lung & Pleural Diseases
Mitglied Organisationskomitee
2013 Postgraduate Course Lung & Pleural Diseases
Organisator
2012 Postgraduate Course Lung, Pleural & Mediastinal Diseases
Organisator
2011 Postgraduate Course in Lung, Pleural & Mediastinal diseases
Organisator
2010 Postgraduate Course in Lung, Pleural & Mediatsinal diseases
Organisator
2010 Pannonia Congress of Pathology, Spring meeting of the Austrian, Croatian, Hungarian and Slovenian Societies of Pathology and IAP Divisions
Organisator
2009 Austro-Hungarian Pathology congress
Organisator
2009 Frühjahrstagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Pathologie und IAP
Mitglied Organisationskomitee
2009 22nd European Congress of Pathology.
Chair
2008 Postgraduate Course Lung, Pleural & Mediastinal Diseases
Organisator
2008 Congress of the International Academy of Pathology, Pulmonary Sessions
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat/Beirätin
2007 Pre-Congress Meeting Pulmonary Pathology
Organisator
2007 Postgraduate Course in Lung, Pleural & Mediastinal Diseases
Organisator
2005 Seminar in Lung and Pleura Diseases
Organisator
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