Peter Valent

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Peter Valent (born October 9, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian hematologist and stem cell researcher. Since 1990 he has headed a working group at the Medical University of Vienna . Since 2002 he has coordinated the European Competence Network for Mastocytoses and since 2008 he has been Scientific Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Hematology and Oncology of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society .

Life and education

Peter Valent studied medicine at the University of Vienna , received his doctorate in 1987 and is a specialist in internal medicine , hematology and oncology . His habilitation in the field of experimental hematology followed in 1992. In 1995 he did his habilitation in the field of internal medicine. From 1997 research stays at the Institute for Pathology at the University of Tübingen , at the Institute for Pathology at the University of Schleswig-Holstein (Lübeck Campus) and at the Institute for Pathology at the LMU Munich .

Work and scientific contributions

Contributions to mast cell research and classification of mastocytoses

Between 1989 and 1999 Valent investigated the phenotype and the growth behavior of human tissue mast cells. This work showed that the mast cells are an independent cell system for blood formation. Based on this, the degenerate (neoplastic) mast cells were examined . This work contributed to the development of diagnostic criteria and the establishment of the WHO classification of mastocytoses . Valent also organized an international working conference in Vienna in 2000 ( Year 2000 Working Conference on Mastocytosis ) which is considered to be the birth of the WHO classification of mast cell diseases. Since 2002 Valent has coordinated a European Competence Network on Mastocytosis, which is the basis for numerous international collaborations and activities in the field of mastocytosis. In the years that followed, the diagnostic criteria were validated, supplemented and expanded. Further conferences on mastocytosis followed in Vienna. In 2005, Peter Valent and his team organized a conference on the standardization of diagnostics and therapy for mastocytoses . In 2010 a conference on the global classification of mast cell diseases and mast cell activation syndromes followed .

Further scientific focus

Another focus is research into leukemia stem cells. Valent examines these cells in various hematological diseases and creates concepts that explain the step-by-step development of leukemia stem cells from normal stem cells. In addition, potential therapeutic target structures are being investigated with the aim of eliminating leukemia stem cells and thus improving anti-leukemic therapies. These projects are mainly carried out at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Hematology and Oncology . In particular, acute myeloid leukemia , chronic myeloid leukemia , systemic mastocytosis and myelodysplastic syndromes are examined .

Publications

Valent is a member of numerous scientific organizations and has published over 800 publications since 1988, including more than 500 original articles, over 200 review articles and numerous book chapters. He also published numerous textbook chapters. In 2001, 2008 and 2016 he was the author of the WHO book chapters on the topic of mastocytosis. Peter Valent is one of the most frequently cited scientists from German-speaking countries in the field of immunology in the years 2011 to 2015. In total, his work was cited over 35,000 times up to March 2019 and his h-index is 94 (as of April 2020 - based on Web of Science ).

Awards

Valent received numerous national and international awards, including the Karl Landsteiner Prize of the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology , the Paracelsus Prize of the Austrian Society for Internal Medicine , the Wilhelm Turk Prize of the Austrian Society for Hematology and Oncology , the Theodor- Billroth Prize from the Medical Association in Austria , the Mack Forster Award from the European Society for Clinical Investigation and the Middle European Award for Interdisciplinary Cancer Research .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Valent , accessed on March 13, 2020 in Onc.lbg.ac.at
  2. ↑ Ao.Univ .Prof. Dr. PETER VALENT , accessed on August 21, 2019 in Meduniwien.ac.at
  3. ↑ Peter VALENT, MD , accessed on August 21, 2019 in Phd-mcca.at
  4. ↑ Peter Valent , accessed April 11, 2020 in Publons.com
  5. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Valent , accessed on April 11, 2020 in Innere-med-1.meduniwien.ac.at
personal data
SURNAME Valent, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian hematologist and stem cell researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna