Ursula Wiedermann MD, PhD, MSc

Ursula Wiedermann had studied Medicine in Vienna, Austria. From 1990-1995 she attended a Ph.D. program in Sweden at the Institute of Clinical Immunology at the University of Gothenburg, focusing her research on mucosal immunity and vaccination. Back in Vienna, she continued her research career at the University of Vienna concentrating on mucosal vaccination against allergic diseases. After her habilitation (venia docendi) in 1999 she founded the research group “Mucosal Immunity and Vaccination”. In 2001 she finished her medical training as a specialist in “Immunology” and “Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Hygiene”. At the Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, she enlarged her research areas to vaccine development against infectious diseases, allergies, and tumors, and focused on clinical vaccine trials to study immune responsiveness and immune failures upon vaccination.

In 2004 she became Head of the Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine and in 2006 she was assigned Professor for Vaccinology at the Medical University Vienna. She is a member of the Supreme Board of Health and since 2011 chair of the Austrian Advisory Committee for Immunization Practice of the Austrian Ministry of Health. Since 2009 she is been the Speaker at the newly founded Centre for Geographic & Migration Medicine at the Medical University Vienna. She has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is frequently giving presentations at international and national conferences.