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Prof. Dr. Erika Jensen-Jarolim
Curriculum vitae
Summary:
Prof. Erika Jensen-Jarolim is head of the
IPP - Dept. of
Pathophysiology of the Medical
University Vienna. She holds an MD and is specialized in
pathophysiology and immunology. In spite of her operative and political
duties within the university, she is leading a research team and thus
is also actively involved in teaching and directing of scientific
projects. Her research is dedicated to the evaluation of
pathophysiological mechanisms and the development of vaccines against
allergies and tumors, especially using the so-called mimotope
technology. In 2006 she defined the novel research direction
AllergoOncology which focuses on the role of IgE in tumor
defence. Erika Jensen-Jarolim is member in numerous scientific
societies, recipient of multiple scientific and society awards, and
reviewer of a great number of international journals and funds. Based
on her active interest in comparative oncology she since 2008 is
councilor of the
University
of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.
Detailled cv:
Erika Jensen-Jarolim was born in Vienna,
Austria, in 1960 and graduated to Doctor of Medicine at the University
of Vienna in 1985. In the same year she got affiliated to the Dept. of
General and Experimental Pathology at the University of Vienna, where
she started research work in the field of allergy in the group of Prof.
Dr. Dietrich Kraft.
In 1988 she joined the group of Prof. Dr.
Lars K. Poulsen to analyse the mechanisms of allergen immunotherapy in
the Dept. of Allergology at Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Between 1989 and 1991 she joined the
research team of Prof.
Dr. Beda M. Stadler
at the Institute of Immunology, University of Berne, Switzerland where
during two years her research interest was dedicated to the role of
anti-IgE autoantibodies in allergy.
After a baby break, Erika Jensen-Jarolim
returned to the Department of Pathophysiology in Vienna
(earlier General and Experimental Pathology) in 1995 and started up
teaching activities in Pathophysiology. Her major research interest
from this time on was on mechanisms of type I. allergy, especially food
allergy, and the elucidation of allergen B-cell epitopes.
In 1998 Erika Jensen-Jarolim was nominated
Assistant Professor followed by her habilitation in 1999. In the same
year she became Associate Professor of the Medical Faculty, University
of Vienna, and founded the working group for AllergoOncology. She is a
dedicated "Mentor
of young Scientists" at the Medical University of Vienna.
In 2000 she completed the subjects
Immunology and Pathophysiology after trainings at the University Clinic
of Dermatology (Prof. Dr. Hubert Pehamberger) and in Oncology (Prof.
Dr. Christoph C. Zielinski).
Recent career steps:
2004: Rank 2 for Allergology professorship
at Medical University Vienna (MUW)
2006: Head of IPP
(Dept. of Pathophysiology), Center
of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology of
the MUW.
2007: Professorship of Pathophysiology at the Medical University Vienna
and Member of the Club
of Female Professors
at the Medical University Vienna.
Journals and Reviewing
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Editorial Board of Wiener
Medizinische Wochenschrift since 04/2009; Editorial board of
Clinical & Experimental Allergy until 12/2008 and Allergo
Journal, Immunology Letters, Managing editor of International
Archives of Allergy and Immunology until 12/2006.
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Reviewer for: Journal of Allergy and
Clinical Immunology, Clinical & Experimental Allergy (CEA),
Clinical & Experimental Immunology, Allergy, International
Archives of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (IAAI), The FASEB Journal,
Gastroenterology, Immunology Letters, Proteomics, Italian Journal of
Food Science, Drug Discovery Today, Personalized Medicine, Food
& Chemical Toxicology, Journal of Controlled Release, Journal
of Immunology, Cancer Research, Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy,
Clinical Cancer Research, Vaccine, Blood, Gene Therapy, BioMed Central
(BMC), Clinical Chemistry, Nature Structural & Molecular
Biology, Breast Care, Oncogene, Molecular Nutrition and Food Research,
Respiratory Research, Expert Review of Vaccines, Future Medicine, Open
Allergy Journal
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Peer reviewer of national and
international funds, e.g. Anniversary Funds of the Austrian National
Bank, Funds of the Major of the City of Vienna, Funds of the City of
Vienna for Innovative Interdisciplinary Cancer
Research, Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, Israel Science
Foundation, Horizon Breakthrough Projects of the Netherlands Genomic
Initiative, National Health and Medical Council project grant funding
Australia (NHMRC), Broad Medical Research Program Inflammatory Bowel
Diseases Grants, Italian Association of Cancer Research, Swiss National
Science Foundation, Christian Doppler Prize Salzburg, Cancer Research
UK, Wellcome Trust
Functions
2010: Member of the Science Jury of Lower
Austria
2009: Consultant MediGene,
Martinsried, Germany.
2008:
Council of the Veterinarian University Vienna (Universitätsrätin).
2007: Member of the board of trustees of the WWTF (Viennese Funds for the
Promotion of Economy)
2006: Member of the
Austrian
CODEX comission for food safety
2006: Delegate of the Medical University
Vienna to Working commission for the
7th EU FRP
2005: Advisory Board Member of Leibniz
Gemeinschaft for Research Center Borstel, Germany
2007:
Member of Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Bionanonet Styria
Societies
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RotePfote,
Cancer Research for Pets. President.
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WAO: World
Allergy Organization-Delegate of the ÖGAI and Member-at-Large
to the WAO web editorial board.
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WAO:
Chairmenship of the AllergoOncology
Task Force
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CIA:
Membership-Commitee-Member of the Council of the Collegium
Internationale Allergologicum
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ÖGAI:
Board Member of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology
2004-2008.
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YSA: Young
Scientists Association: Member of the scientific committee.
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EAACI:
Member
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DGAI: Board
Member of the German Society for Allergology and Immunology in 2006
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ADF:
Member of the Expert Abstracts Commitee
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VFWF: Member
of the Association for the Promotion of Science and Research at the New
University Departments of the Vienna General Hospital
Congress
Organizations
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Clemens von Pirquet-Symposium of the Austrian Society of
Allergology and Immunology. Congress president.Dec 7 - 9, 2006.
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Ist International
AllergoOncology Symposium. Congress president. April 16,
2007.
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EAACI
2006: Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Allergology
and Clinical Immunology. Member of local organizing committee. Vienna,
10-14. June 2006.
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2nd
Menopause-Andropause-Anti Aging Congress, Member of
scientific committee. Vienna, December 2007.
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2nd International
AllergoOncology Symposium. Congress president. Vienna,
10-11.April, 2008 .
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Joint
Annual Meeting of Immunology of the Austrian and German Societies
(ÖGAI and DGfI), Member of local organizing
committee. Vienna, Sept. 3-6, 2008.
Honors
Lore Antoine Prize of the "Organisation der
Ärztinnen Österreichs" (Organization of
Female Physicians), Austria, May 2009
Charity Award of journal
WIENERIN
2008
Teacher
of the Month, Medical University Vienna, May 2006
Great Central-European Prize for Innovative Interdisciplinary
Cancer Research of the Funds of the City of Vienna, December
2005.
Researcher
of the Month, Medical University of Vienna, May
2005.
Award of the ECARF
(European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation), Clinical
Allergology. 2005.
Bronze Medal of the Slovac Academy of Sciences. 2004.
Research Prize of the Austrian Association for
Crohn´s disease and Colitis ulcerosa (ÖMCCV).
2002.
Nomination for Henning
Löwenstein Award (honorary mention, place 2). 2002.
Pirquet Prize of the
Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology. 2000.
Habilitation Prize of the VFWF
(Association for the Promotion of Science and Research at the New
University Departments of the Vienna General Hospital).1999.
Research Prize of the
ÖMCCV (Austrian Association for Crohn´s
disease and Colitis ulcerosa). 1998.
Research Prize of the Hoechst AG,
Frankfurt/Main, Germany (later continued by Aventis Foundation).
1990.
Research Prize of the Danish
Allergy Foundation (founded in 1981), University Hospital,
Copenhagen, Denmark. 1989.
Honors
of the AllergoOncology group,
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Awards
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Doctoral College CCHD of the
Austrian Science Funds, part II.
Project title: "Cellular interactions decisive for the
type of immune response to orally applied antigens".
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Nano-Health Austria (grant
819720/21). WP5 "Safety and Nanotoxicity", Project title:
"NanoVac". Isabella Pali-Schöll and E. Jensen-Jarolim."
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Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
(grant SFB F1808-B13), part III. Project title: "Allergen
mimotopes for epitope studies and vaccination".
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Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung
der Stadt Wien. Project title: "IgE-induced release of
mediators from mast cells and basophil granulocytes and its effect on
tumor cells."
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Doctoral College CCHD of the
Austrian Science Funds, part I. Project title: "Cellular
interactions decisive for the type of immune response to orally applied
antigens".
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Funds of the City of Vienna
for Innovative Interdisciplinary Cancer research. Project
title: "Immunogenicity and therapeutic potency of mimotopes for the
carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in transgenic mouse tumor models.
Co-Applicant with Dr. Kira Brämswig.
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Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
(grant PA-18238-B13). Project title: "Development of an oral
mimotope vaccine against tumors".
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Medical Scientific Fund of
the Major of the City of Vienna (grant 02484). Project title:
"Development of an active immunotherapy agains carcinoembryonic
antigen- (CEA-) overexpressing tumors".
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Anniversary Fund of the
Austrian National Bank (grant 11375). Projct title: "The
effect of total gastrectomy on the development of food allergy in
humans". Co-Applicant with Dr. Eva Untersmayr.
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Institute Danone. Project
title: "The sensitization potential of Bet v 1-homologues in elderly
patients and mice influenced by anti-acidic therapy"
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TransKoop project of the
Wiener Wirtschaftförderungsfonds. Project title:
"Biocompatible particles for oral vaccination in pollen allergies".
Coapplicant: Dr. Isabella Schöll.
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Austrian Science Fund (FWF),
Projekt SFB F1808-B04, part II. Project title: "Allergen
mimotopes for epitope studies and vaccination"
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Anniversary Fund of the
Austrian National Bank (grant 10965). Project title:
“Development of active immunotherapy of childhood
neuroblastoma with mimotope technology." Coapplication with Prof. Dr.
E. Förster-Waldl.
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German Neuroblastoma
foundation. Project title: “GD2 Mimotope
DNA-vaccine for active immunotherapy of neuroblastoma”.
Coapplication with Dr. Holger Lode, Charité Berlin.
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Anniversary Fund of the
Austrian National Bank (grant 10326). Project title:
“Generation of mimotopes of the major fish allergen
parvalbumin for the treatment of food allergy - Application of phage
display peptide libraries”. Coapplicant: Dr. Eva Untersmayr
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Center of Excellence in
Clinical and Experimental Oncology (CLEXO). Projekttitel:
“Biological effects of tumor antigen-mimotopes”
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Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
(Grant Nr. P14339-B08). Project title: "Mimotopes for
Immunotherapy of Allergic Disease II".
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Austrian Science Fund (FWF),
Projekt SFB F018-08, part I. Project title: "The role of
allergen-specific antibodies and anti-antibodies in molecular models of
type I allergy". Co-Applicant: Prof. Dr. G. Boltz.
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Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Grant Nr. P14339-PAT. Project title: Mimotopes for
Immunotherapy of Allergic Disease I.
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Anniversary Fund of the
Austrian National Bank (Grant Nr.8301). Project title:
Epitop-specific immunization strategies against malignant melanoma.
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Medical Scientific Fund of
the Major of the City of Vienna (Grant Nr. 1637). Project
title: Inhibition of allergen-specific IgE by mimotopes from phage
display libraries.
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Medical Scientific Fund of
the Major of the City of Vienna (Grant Nr. 1429). Project
title: Immune complexes of IgE and anti-IgE autoantibodies:
Pathophysiologic impact on Crohn´s disease.
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Anniversary Fund of the
Austrian National Bank (Grant Nr. 5756). Project title: IgE
Receptors od intestinal epithelial cells in patients with
Crohn´s disease.
Patents
Teaching and Training
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Old curriculum for Medical students
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New curriculum for Medical students
(mcw)
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Curriculum for Dentistry students
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Medical Doctor of Sciences
(Dr.med.sci)
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Diploma students and pHD students of
Natural Sciences
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Residents in Immunology
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Residents in Pathophysiology
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Postgraduate training in Immunology
and Allergology
