Sigurd F. Lax MD, PhD

Sigurd Lax graduated from the University of Graz, School of Medicine in 1987 and subsequently trained in Pathology at the Institute of Pathology of the same university. From 1995 to 1997 he spent a research fellowship at the Department of Pathology of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with Profs. Robert Kurman and Lora Hedrick Ellenson. In 1999 he received his venia docendi and in the same year a tenured faculty position as associate professor from the University of Graz.

In 2002 he became head of a newly established department of pathology in an academic teaching hospital in Graz. In 2008 he was awarded with the title of full professor. He has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journal and several book chapters. He has been president of the Austrian Society of Pathology/Austrian IAP division and German IAP division and associate editor of Virchows Archiv. During the last 15 years has given many lectures and seminars, among others in the German and Austrian IAP divisions and the European Society of Pathology.