Austrian Society of Dermatology and Venerology awards researchers from MedUni Vienna

The Austrian Society of Dermatology and Venereology (ÖGDV) honoured MedUni Vienna researchers for their scientific achievements at its annual conference. Georg Stary received the Ferdinand von Hebra award, while Johanna Strobl and Laura Marie Gail of Georg Stary's research group were awarded the Science Award for a research paper. The Ferdinand von Hebra Prize is presented by the ÉGDV every two years. The prize is not awarded for individual scientific papers, but for a coherent opus of several publications that have led to significant progress in the field of dermatological and/or venereological research. Georg Stary is a senior physician at the Department of Dermatology at MedUni Vienna/Vienna General Hospital where he heads a research group. The "Stary Lab" focuses on "Translational Immunology in Mucosa and Skin (TIMS)". The researchers investigate the role of immune cells in host-pathogen interactions in physiological and pathological conditions of the skin and mucous membranes.