Renate Rosengarten

Renate Rosengarten’s academic career is for almost 40 years marked by a continuous interest in the infection biology of mycoplasmas, and their detection, prevention and control. Her passion for mycoplasmas took her to the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since 1996 she is Professor and Chair of Bacteriology and Hygiene at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria. Besides her numerous activities in academia, Prof. Rosengarten was the Founder and Managing Director of the previous niche market leader Mycosafe Diagnostics GmbH which she has as Managing Partner in 2014 re-established under the new company name Mycoplasma Biosafety Services GmbH. The company is considered today as the technological innovation leader in the area of Industrial Mycoplasmology.