Team
Prof. Dr. Viktoria Weber
Head
Tanja Eichhorn, PhD
Postdoc
DI Birgit Fendl
PhD Student
Ingrid Linsberger
Technician
Carla Tripisciano, PhD
Postdoc
René Weiß, PhD
Postdoc
Scientific and Associated Partners
Prof. Christoph J. Binder
CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine
Medical University Vienna, Austria
Prof. Michael B. Fischer
Center for Biomedical Technology
Danube-University Krems, Austria
Dr. Marion Gröger
Core Facility Imaging
Medical University Vienna, Austria
Prof. Dr. Christoph Hörmann
Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
University Clinic St. Pölten, Austria
Prof. Dr. Andreas Spittler
Core Facility Flow Cytometry & Surgical Research Laboratories
Medical University Vienna, Austria
Dr. Volker Witt
St. Anna Kinderspital, Vienna, Austria
Commercial Partner
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
Fresenius Medical Care is the world market leader in products and services for patients suffering from chronic renal failure. In 2016, Fresenius Medical Care had more than 110,000 employees and 37 production sites world wide. Fresenius Medical Care is listed on the stock exchange in Frankfurt and New York.
There are more than 1.4 million patients undergoing hemodialysis on a regular basis worldwide. Fresenius Medical Care is the largest supplier of dialysis products, such as hemodialysis machines, dialyzers, and disposables, machines and disposables for acute dialysis and peritoneal dialysis. In addition to supplying products and services for hemodialysis, Fresenius Medical Care offers systems for therapeutic apheresis in the field of lipid apheresis, liver support, and immunoadsorption.
In 2010 503 full-time employees were working in R&D worldwide. R&D expenditure in 2010 amounted to $97 million. Approximately two-thirds of the research and development activities are based in Germany and one-third in North America. At the end of 2010, Fresenius owned the rights to 214,648 patents in around 660 patent families.
Fresenius Medical Care Adsorber Tec GmbH is a subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care situated in Krems, Austria and is Fresenius Medical Care´s production site for adsorbents for therapeutic apheresis.