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Curriculum vitae of Prof. Dr. Dorothee von Laer

Name: Prof. Dr. M. Dorothee von Laer, MD
Date of birth: 1958
Division of Virology
Innsbruck Medical University
Peter-Mayr-Straße 4b
6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Education

1976-77 Interpreter School, Interpreter Diploma English
1978-85 Medical School Hamburg, Germany
1985 Final medical exam: ‘Staatsexamen’ and Approbation
1985-87 Thesis in Biochemistry
1987 Dr. med.
1994 Specialist (Facharzt) for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
1996 Habilitation (venia legendi) at the Freiburg University

Professional Positions

Since 1/10
Full Professor for Virology and Head of the Division for Virology at the Medical University Innsbruck, Austria

2003-12/09
Full Professor for Applied Virology and Gene Therapy at the University of Frankfurt, Medical School, Germany

2000-12/09
Head of the section ‘Applied Virology and Gene Therapy’ at the Georg-Speyer-Haus, Frankfurt am Main

1996-2000
Senior scientist at the ‘Heinrich-Pette-Institut für Experimentelle Virologie’ (a biomedical research institute), Hamburg University

1992-96
Scientist at the ‘Abteilung für Virologie, Inst. f.Med. Mikrobiologie & Hygiene’ of Freiburg University, Germany

1988-91
Physician and scientist at the ‘Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenkrankheiten (tropical diseases)’, Hamburg

1987-88
Scientist at the ‘Institut für Med. Mikrobiologie’, Hamburg University

Research Projects

  • Speaker of the EU research network ’antiviral aptamers for treatment of HIV infection, Virapt’ (STREP)
  • Speaker of the BMBF consortium ‘treatment of severe immunodeficiencies with gene-modified hematopoietic stem cells, TreatID’
  • Deputy Coordinator of the Frankfurt research study group ‘Biologicals, GK1172’
  • Member of the EU Integrated Project ‘A combined pox-virus/lentiviral vector system to treat HIV infection. Immunization and direct in vivo gene transfer in T lymphocytes, Poxgene’
  • Member of the EU Integrated Project ‘targeting replication and integration of HIV, TRIOH’
  • Member of the Frankfurt integrated research network ‘RNA-ligand interaction, SFB 579’
  • Member of the French-German ANRS-funded network ‘therapy for HIV infection by "intracellular immunisation" with antiviral genes: evaluation in an SIV-infected rhesus macaque pre-clinical model’

Research profile

  • Gene therapy
  • Molecular virology
  • Oncolytic viruses

Patents approved

  • Retroviral Hybrid Vectors pseudotyped with LCMV (DE 198 56 463 ; Priority: May 1th, 1999 ; EP 99250415 ; US 6,589,763 B1)
  • Gene therapy of HIV-Infection by the expression of membrane-anchored gp41 peptides (DE 199 57 838.9, Priority: 25.11.99; PCT/EP00/11733)
  • LCMV-GP-VSV-Pseudotypvektoren und tumorinfiltrierende Virenproduzentenzellen zur Therapie von Tumoren (DE10 2008 050 860.8, Priority: 8.10.2008)

Institut für Virologie