Heinz Redl

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Heinz Redl (* 1952 ) is a scientist and head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology and has received the Wilhelm Exner Medal .

Life

Heinz Redl was born in 1952 and studied technical chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology as part of his biochemistry course . After working as a university assistant at the Institute for Botany and Technical Microscopy , he worked in the trauma research department of the General Accident Insurance Institute (AUVA) in the Lorenz Böhler Hospital .

Act

In 2006, Heinz Redl founded the Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration with the aim of better understanding the regeneration of soft tissues, cartilage, bones and nerves and, based on this, new treatment methods. The partnership with the blood bank of the Red Cross Upper Austria also offers the possibility of preparing human cells and tissues under GMP conditions. In the field of tissue regeneration, he was able to bring the largest world congress for regenerative medicine to Vienna in 2012 and has been President of the European TERMIS-EU Society since 2015 .

Heinz Redl contributed his technical and economic understanding as a consultant to the first Austrian university start-up company , the Immuno company .

After his appointment as head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology , he founded the company Trauma Care Consult for industrial cooperation , which he has also managed since then.

Research topics

Important research topics of Heinz Redl in the field of intensive care medicine are the control and therapy of coagulation disorders in the severely injured, the monitoring and therapies of sepsis based on it , the bacterial translocation as a trigger of organ failure, areas of tissue regeneration, the bridging of nerve defects, new approaches to hemostasis, one faster wound healing through growth factors and biophysical measures such as light or shock waves, replacement of the cruciate ligament with silk and stem cell research .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e [1] , accessed on March 16, 2019
  2. ^ Wilhelm Exner Medal , accessed on March 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Redl, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian scientist and head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology and recipient of the Wilhelm Exner Medal
DATE OF BIRTH 1952