Christoph Steininger | MedUni Vienna

Assoc.-Prof. PD Dr. Christoph Steininger

Facharzt

Career

1992–1998 Medicine degree, University of Innsbruck
1999–2003 Institute of Virology, University of Vienna
2003 Diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene (DTM&H), Gorgas Memorial Institute, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
2004–2005 University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Clinic I, Hamburg, Germany
2005–2010 Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna
2006 Specialist in virology
2007 Diploma in emergency medicine, ARGE Notfall emergency care working group, Salzburg
2008 Post-doctoral lecturing qualification in internal medicine, Medical University of Vienna
2010 Diploma in hospital hygiene, Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine
2010 Specialist in internal medicine
2010–2011 City of Vienna Wilhelminenspital Hospital, 4th Medical Department
2011 Diploma in hospital management, University for Continuing Education Krems
2012-present Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna
2012 Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine subspecialism
2012 Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna
2019 Innovation to business (INiTS) start-up camp
2020 Co-founder, LEAD Horizon (Covid-19 prevention company)
2021 Founder, ViroStone

Awards and honours

2001 Unilever Award, Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine
2005 Abbott Diagnostic Award, European Society for Clinical Virology
2007 Young Researcher Award, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
2007 Researcher of the Month, Medical University of Vienna
2018 Member of the Walter Siegenthaler Society

Functions/memberships

2015–2020 Austrian Microbiome Initiative (AMICI), co-founder and President
2014–2018 Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Austrian Helicobacter Study Group member
2014–2017 Paul Ehrlich Society and Society of Virology, Antiviral Therapy Advisory Board member
2012 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, grant reviewer
2014–present European Union research funding – Infect-ERA, grant reviewer
2010–2012 Paul Ehrlich Society, member of the Advisory Board on Viral Infections of the Respiratory Tract
2011–2015 Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, chair of the Infectious Diseases Working Group
2019–present Israeli research funding, grant reviewer
2019–present Walter Siegenthaler Society, member and Advisory Board member

Editorial responsibilities for scientific journals

2014–present Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Editorial Board member
2013–present JATROS Infektiologie & Gastroenterologie-Hepatologie, Scientific Advisory Board member
2011–present Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery, Editorial Advisory Board member
2019–2020 The Microbiome World: Diversity and Impact , Editor-In-Chief
2019–2020 Frontiers in Microbiology, Guest Editor

Reviewer for scientific journals