Karl Landsteiner Society
The Karl Landsteiner Society is an Austrian institution for carrying out scientific research, scientific events and related scientific publications and documentation in the field of medicine and related scientific disciplines.
organization
The company is a non-profit research association with offices in St. Pölten . It was founded in 2004 with the aim of promoting patient-oriented, scientific research and advanced training in Vienna and Lower Austria. The company is named after the discoverer of blood groups and Nobel Prize winner for medicine Karl Landsteiner , who came from Lower Austria . The university professor Bernhard Schwarz has been president since 2010.
The society is divided (as of 2015) into 62 "Karl Landsteiner Institutes", which cover almost all areas of medicine. Research is mainly carried out in small institutes, whereby the Karl Landsteiner Society as an umbrella organization attaches great importance to the independence of the institutes.
The association offers your institutes a networking platform for interdisciplinary research projects and acts as an administrative body. The institutes are patient-oriented, part-time and with a high degree of practical relevance. Annual target agreements, transparency and standardized evaluation procedures by the institutes are intended to ensure a consistently high quality standard in all research projects.