Wolfgang Warsch

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Wolfgang Warsch (born February 19, 1980 in Steyr , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian molecular biologist and game designer . As a molecular biologist, he works in the field of cancer research and has received several prizes and a scholarship for his work. His board game Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg , the card game The Mind and the dice game Ganz schön clever all appeared in January 2018 and were nominated for Game of the Year or for Kennerspiel des Jahres in the same year , The Quacksalber von Quedlinburg was named Kennerspiel des Jahres.

biography

Wolfgang Warsch studied genetics and microbiology at the University of Vienna and completed his studies with a master's degree. He then went to the Medical University of Vienna and later to the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna , where he researched the role of the JAK-STAT signaling pathway in chronic myeloid leukemia in Veronika Sexl's laboratory . He received his doctorate in 2012 and in the autumn of the same year he moved to the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research in England, where he worked until April 2016, among other things, on the development of a new screening method for essential kinases in cancer cell lines . This work was supported by the receipt of the Erwin Schrödinger grant, which he received in 2014. Since returning from England in 2016, he has worked at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.

Wolfgang Warsch develops games in his spare time. According to his own account, he started doing it around the age of 20, trying to turn a billiards game into a board game. He later approached Goldsieber Verlag with a game , which was interested in a prototype, but then did not publish the game. In 2015 his first commercially available game, Dream Team, was published by Zoch Verlag , followed by shadow master by Piatnik in 2016 . After a break, at the same time as the Nuremberg Toy Fair, the games Illusion and The Mind were published by Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag (NSV) as well as Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg and Ganz schön clever by Schmidt Spiele .

Warsch has two children and lives in Vienna.

Awards

Awards for medical work

Wolfgang Warsch was awarded the Wilhelm Türk Prize of the Austrian Society for Hematology & Oncology for his work on the cell protein STAT5 and its importance in the development of resistance to the drug treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. At the beginning of 2013, he and his colleagues were awarded the Cancer Research Prize of the City of Vienna for the same work that was published in the specialist journal Blood 2011.

Awards for board games

Several of Warsch's games have been nominated or awarded for game awards:

Ludography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kennerspiel des Jahres 2018 | Spiel des Jahres eV. Accessed January 8, 2019 .
  2. ^ Wolfgang Warsch in the list of Erwin Schroedinger scholarship holders; accessed on May 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b board game box interview - Wolfgang Warsch. Interview on brettspielbox.de, March 1, 2018; accessed on May 30, 2018.
  4. ^ The Wilhelm Türk Prize of the Austrian Society for Hematology & Oncology, award ceremony 2011 on the website of the Austrian Society for Hematology & Oncology, 2011; accessed on May 30, 2018.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Warsch, Karoline Kollmann, Eva Eckelhart, Sabine Fajmann, Sabine Cerny-Reiterer, Andrea Hölbl, Karoline V. Gleixner, Michael Dworzak, Matthias Mayerhofer, Gregor Hoermann, Harald Herrmann, Christian Sillaber, Gerda Egger, Peter Valent, Richard Moriggl, Veronika Sexl: High STAT5 levels mediate imatinib resistance and indicate disease progression in chronic myeloid leukemia. Blood 117, 2011; Pp. 3409-3420 doi : 10.1182 / blood-2009-10-248211 .
  6. ^ Three cancer research awards from the City of Vienna for Team Sexl. Press release of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna of March 19, 2013; accessed on May 30, 2018.

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SURNAME Warsch, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian molecular biologist and game designer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr , Upper Austria