Member of the Board
Em. O. Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang R. Mayr
Austrian Red Cross
Wiedner Hauptstraße 32
A-1040 WIEN / Austria
CURRICULUM VITAE
Born on July 29, 1944 in Vienna (Austria); nationality: Austrian
Qualifications as medical specialist: blood group serology, transfusion medicine and immunology
Docentships for blood group serology (1974), immunology (1984) and transfusion medicine (1986)
Employments
– June 1, 1968 – September 30, 1971: assistant professor, Institute for Blood Group Serology, University of Vienna
– October 1, 1971 – May 31, 1972: assistant professor, Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University of Tübingen (FRG)
– June 1, 1972 – May 31, 1973: scientist, Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel (Switzerland)
– July 1, 1973 – November 30, 1986: assistant professor (until February 13, 1974), then associate professor, Institute for Blood Group Serology, University of Vienna
– December 1, 1986 – September 30, 1992: Director, Institute for Transfusion Medicine, RWTH Aachen (FRG)
– October 1, 1992 – December 31, 2009: Director of the Division of Blood Group Serology and Chairman, Department of Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Vienna / Medical University of Vienna
– January 1, 2010 – September 30, 2012: Director, Department for Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Vienna; from October 1, 2012: professor emeritus
– January 1, 1994 – March 31, 2005: Medical Director, Blood Donation Center for Wien, Niederösterreich and Burgenland, Austrian Red Cross
– from April 1, 2005: Medical Councillor for Transfusion Medicine, Austrian Red Cross
– from 2006: Board member of the European Blood Alliance
– from 2013: GAP Vice-President
Scientific work: 590 publications on the following topics: transfusion medicine, blood group serology, immunohematology, immunogenetics, transplantation immunology and HLA.
Commissioner for Central Europe EFI Accreditation: 1996 – 2003
Inspector for EFI Accreditation: 2003 – 2012
Editor-in-Chief of VOX SANGUINIS (2003-2011; 1977-2003: editor of Section III – Genetic markers of human blood); member of the editorial board of HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY (-2017), FORENSIC SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL:GENETICS, and MINERVA BIOTECHNOLOGICA.
Councillor of the International Histocompatibility Workshops and Member of the HLA Nomenclature Committee, Organizer (with E.D. Albert) of the International Histocompatibility Workshop and Conference 1984 (München/Wien)
Organiser of the 26th Congress of the International Society of Blood Transfusion 2000 in Vienna / Austria
Organiser of the 12th Congress of the Society for Forensic Haemogenetics (1987) and of the 24th Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (2011) in Vienna / Austria
Dr. med honoris causa, University of Olomouc / Czechia (1994)