Professor Hannes Stockinger

Country: Austria

Institution: Medical University of Vienna

Research Areas: T cell biology, macrophage plasticity, tick-borne infectious diseases

Lab Website: www.meduniwien.ac.at/hp/en/hai

The Medical University of Vienna with its 650 years-history is one of the oldest and most important top-level medical research institutions in Europe. One of the biggest research institutions is the Centre for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology. Hannes Stockinger heads the Centre and directs also one of the subunits of the Centre, the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology. He performs state-of–the-art research in immune cell biology, especially of T cells and myeloid cells, focusing on modulation of immune responses. He has been identifying and characterizing structure and function of a number of surface receptors by monoclonal antibodies, the latter have been distributed to the community and used by health care centers, doctors and researchers for the diagnosis and therapy of immunological diseases and leukemias for decades up to now. Currently, he is focusing on the development of: 1) 3G nanodevices to specifically transport drugs and factors to pathologic cells in immunological diseases, 2) novel assays for the diagnosis of bacterial infections and 3) advanced imaging to analyze the dynamic of receptors and signaling molecules in the immunological synapse of living T cells and antigen presenting cells with the aim to obtain novel insight into the initiation and control of the adaptive immune response. During his scientific carrier he published nearly 200 scientific papers a variety in the very top journals such as Cell, Science, Nature Methods, Nature Immunology that count for an h-factor of more than 50.