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Andrea OLSCHEWSKI, MD, PhD

The chloride channel regulator CLCA1 and the calcium-activated chloride channel TMEM16A in lung fibrosis

Experimental Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Graz; Auenbruggerplatzt 5, 8036 Graz
phone: +43-316-385 72057, fax: +43-316-385 14663,  e-mail
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ORCID-ID: 0000-0002-8189-3634
Research areas:
  Ion channels, pulmonary circulation, live cell imaging, chronic lung diseases
Career history:
2021–present Member of Experts' Committe of the German Research Foundation (DFG) & German Council for Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat)
2017–2019 Vice Rector for Medicine, Johannes Kepler University Linz
2016–2017 Chair of the Institute for Physiology, MUG
2010–2017 Director, Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria
2006–present Full Professor of Experimental Anesthesiology, Medical University of Graz (Med Uni Graz), Austria
2005 Board certification in Pain Therapy
2002–2005 Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Justus Liebig University Gießen
2002 Habilitation in Anesthesiology, Justus Liebig University Gießen
2000–2002 Postdoctoral Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1999 PhD thesis in Physiology, Justus Liebig University Gießen
1999 Board certification in Anesthesiology
1993–1999 Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
1986–1992 Study of Human Medicine, MD University of Debrecen, Ungarn
Career-related activities (5 most important):
2021–present Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the von Behring–Röntgen Foundation, Germany
2009–2010 Responsible for the International Accreditation and Quality Assurance of the PhD Program of the Med Uni Graz
2009 Chair of the Research Promotion Commission of the Med Uni Graz
2008–2012 Dean for Doctoral Studies, Medical University of Graz, Austria
2002–2005 Deputy Director for academic affairs, Department of Anesthesiology, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen; Germany

Invited referee for > 30 scientific journals and > 10 funding organizations
Major honours and awards (5 most important):
2009 Manfred Specker Medaille Award of the German Society of Anesthesiologists for Mentoring
2006 Research Award of the Austrian Society of Pneumology
2002 Award of the Justus Liebig University of Gießen for the best Habilitation of the Year
2001 Cournand and Comroe Young Investigator Prize of the American Heart Association
1999 Fresenius Award of the German Society of Anesthesiologists
Patents:
2018 TMEM16A: Modulation for diagnostic or therapeutic use in pulmonary hypertension (PH) (Nr. PTT/EP17169063), patent sold to BAYER
2017 Biomarker for the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (Nr. PCT/EP2017/055440, pending in Europe, USA, Canada, Japan)
International collaboration partners (5 most important):
 

Nicholas Morrell, Univesity of Cambridge, UK

Peter Enyedi, Semmelweiss University, Budapest, Hungary

Wolfgang Kübler, Charité, Berlin, Germany

Andrea Meredith, University of Maryland, US

Walter Klepetko, Medical University of Vienna, Austria