Katharina Grabmeier-Pfistershammer, MD

Assoziierter Professor für Immunologie

Medizinische Universität Wien
Abteilung Immunzellen Rezeptoren und Aktivierung der T-Zellen
Institut für Immunologie
Zentrum für Pathophysiologie, Infektiologie und Immunologie
Lazarettgasse 19, 3. Stock
1090 Wien 

Tel.: +43 (0)1 40160 - 33241
Fax: +43 (0)1 40160 - 933201

E-Mail: katharina.grabmeier-pfistershammer@meduniwien.ac.at

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Research Interests
Modulation of human immune responses by persistent infections (e.g. by HIV) and herapeutic intervention (e.g. immune check point inhibition, transplantation).

Katharina Grabmeier-Pfistershammer is research group leader at the Medical University of Vienna. She studied Medicine at the University of Vienna (Austria) and Perugia (Italy). K. Grabmeier is a trained clinical immunologist as well as dermatologist with long standing clinical experience in the treatment of patients with acquired immunodeficiency but also on immunomodulatory treatment. She has performed her specialization in dermatology in Vienna under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Georg Stingl and was trained as an immunologist at the Institute of Immunology under the supervision of Prof. Walter Knapp. During her professional training she spent a clinical stay with Prof. Antonella d'Arminio Monforte, University of Milan (UNIMI, Malattie Infettive e Tropicali), a known expert in HIV medicine.  Within her clinical affiliation she makes part of the interdisciplinary out-patient clinic for adult patients with immunodeficiencies at the Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine of the Medical University.

Her research interest is the modulation of human immune responses by persistent infections (e.g. by HIV) or therapeutic intervention (e.g. immune check point inhibition, transplantation). A better understanding of how such perturbations affect immune function in individual patients is prerequisite to improve case management and treatment modalities. The research is strongly influenced by the clinical work as dermatologist and clinical immunologist and is carried out in close collaborations with clinical departments of the Medical University.

At the diagnostic unit of the institute she is involved in continuous improvement of the test panels and the development and implementation of new diagnostic assays and procedures.

2009, she was awarded the Theodor Körner Preis and the Unilever Preis (Österreichischer Dermatologen Preis) as well as the Heinrich Auspitz Preis der ÖGDV in 2013.