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The Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein (UFL) is a non-profit foundation in the sense of Art. 552 ff. of the Liechtenstein Persons and Companies Act (PGR) based in Triesen.
Accordingly, both the PGR and the Liechtenstein University Act (HSG) must be reflected in the university statute.
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The Foundation Council is the supreme body of the University. It decides on matters of fundamental importance to the University and supervises the activities of the University Council and the University Management.
Prof. Mag. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Gassner
Head of Institute, Vice-Rector Research
Institute of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Since 2021, Christoph Gassner acts as head of the recently founded Institute of Translational Medicine as Professor of Medical Biology. In the same year, he was appointed Vice-Rector for Research at the UFL.
Born in Lustenau, Christoph Gassner studied biology, specialising in microbiology and biochemistry, at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck and completed his doctorate in 1994 on the subject of “DNA methylation by the E. coli phage T1”. His civilian service then took him to the Austrian Red Cross and there to the Central Institute for Blood Transfusion at the Tyrolean Regional Hospitals, where he practised genetics and molecular diagnostics of tissue and blood groups until 1999. In 1999 and 2000 he spent research stays at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, US and at the Basel Institute for Immunology. There he deepened his knowledge in the field of immunogenetics. Back in Austria and inspired by the one-year extra-occupational course “Innovation, Product and Process Management”, the first commercial genetic diagnostic kits for various blood group characteristics were developed (worldwide). In 2005, Christoph Gassner habilitated as a private lecturer in medical biology with the topic “Genetic diagnostics of blood group RhD” and thus obtained formal teaching authorization at the Medical University of Innsbruck. From 2010, he developed a MALDI-TOF-based high-throughput system for genetic blood grouping at the Zurich Blood Donor Centre with his team and used it to test more than 80,000 Swiss blood donors.
Christoph has been a formal trainer of the German Society for Immunogenetics (DGI) since 2007 and Chairman of the Blood Group Terminology Working Group of the International Society for Transfusion Medicine (ISBT) since 2018. His research interests focus on the plasma membrane of red blood cells, their blood groups and - at the genetic level - the diverse immunological reactions they trigger.
The University Council is an advisory body. He advises the Foundation Council in all matters concerning the strategic direction of the university.
Co-chairs
Prof. Mag. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Gassner
Head of Institute, Vice-Rector Research
Institute of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Since 2021, Christoph Gassner acts as head of the recently founded Institute of Translational Medicine as Professor of Medical Biology. In the same year, he was appointed Vice-Rector for Research at the UFL.
Born in Lustenau, Christoph Gassner studied biology, specialising in microbiology and biochemistry, at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck and completed his doctorate in 1994 on the subject of “DNA methylation by the E. coli phage T1”. His civilian service then took him to the Austrian Red Cross and there to the Central Institute for Blood Transfusion at the Tyrolean Regional Hospitals, where he practised genetics and molecular diagnostics of tissue and blood groups until 1999. In 1999 and 2000 he spent research stays at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, US and at the Basel Institute for Immunology. There he deepened his knowledge in the field of immunogenetics. Back in Austria and inspired by the one-year extra-occupational course “Innovation, Product and Process Management”, the first commercial genetic diagnostic kits for various blood group characteristics were developed (worldwide). In 2005, Christoph Gassner habilitated as a private lecturer in medical biology with the topic “Genetic diagnostics of blood group RhD” and thus obtained formal teaching authorization at the Medical University of Innsbruck. From 2010, he developed a MALDI-TOF-based high-throughput system for genetic blood grouping at the Zurich Blood Donor Centre with his team and used it to test more than 80,000 Swiss blood donors.
Christoph has been a formal trainer of the German Society for Immunogenetics (DGI) since 2007 and Chairman of the Blood Group Terminology Working Group of the International Society for Transfusion Medicine (ISBT) since 2018. His research interests focus on the plasma membrane of red blood cells, their blood groups and - at the genetic level - the diverse immunological reactions they trigger.
Members
Prof. Mag. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Gassner
Head of Institute, Vice-Rector Research
Institute of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Since 2021, Christoph Gassner acts as head of the recently founded Institute of Translational Medicine as Professor of Medical Biology. In the same year, he was appointed Vice-Rector for Research at the UFL.
Born in Lustenau, Christoph Gassner studied biology, specialising in microbiology and biochemistry, at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck and completed his doctorate in 1994 on the subject of “DNA methylation by the E. coli phage T1”. His civilian service then took him to the Austrian Red Cross and there to the Central Institute for Blood Transfusion at the Tyrolean Regional Hospitals, where he practised genetics and molecular diagnostics of tissue and blood groups until 1999. In 1999 and 2000 he spent research stays at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, US and at the Basel Institute for Immunology. There he deepened his knowledge in the field of immunogenetics. Back in Austria and inspired by the one-year extra-occupational course “Innovation, Product and Process Management”, the first commercial genetic diagnostic kits for various blood group characteristics were developed (worldwide). In 2005, Christoph Gassner habilitated as a private lecturer in medical biology with the topic “Genetic diagnostics of blood group RhD” and thus obtained formal teaching authorization at the Medical University of Innsbruck. From 2010, he developed a MALDI-TOF-based high-throughput system for genetic blood grouping at the Zurich Blood Donor Centre with his team and used it to test more than 80,000 Swiss blood donors.
Christoph has been a formal trainer of the German Society for Immunogenetics (DGI) since 2007 and Chairman of the Blood Group Terminology Working Group of the International Society for Transfusion Medicine (ISBT) since 2018. His research interests focus on the plasma membrane of red blood cells, their blood groups and - at the genetic level - the diverse immunological reactions they trigger.
The University Management is the operational management body of the university for the entire university. It consists of the Rector and the Vice-Rector.
Rector
Prof. Mag. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Gassner
Head of Institute, Vice-Rector Research
Institute of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Since 2021, Christoph Gassner acts as head of the recently founded Institute of Translational Medicine as Professor of Medical Biology. In the same year, he was appointed Vice-Rector for Research at the UFL.
Born in Lustenau, Christoph Gassner studied biology, specialising in microbiology and biochemistry, at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck and completed his doctorate in 1994 on the subject of “DNA methylation by the E. coli phage T1”. His civilian service then took him to the Austrian Red Cross and there to the Central Institute for Blood Transfusion at the Tyrolean Regional Hospitals, where he practised genetics and molecular diagnostics of tissue and blood groups until 1999. In 1999 and 2000 he spent research stays at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, US and at the Basel Institute for Immunology. There he deepened his knowledge in the field of immunogenetics. Back in Austria and inspired by the one-year extra-occupational course “Innovation, Product and Process Management”, the first commercial genetic diagnostic kits for various blood group characteristics were developed (worldwide). In 2005, Christoph Gassner habilitated as a private lecturer in medical biology with the topic “Genetic diagnostics of blood group RhD” and thus obtained formal teaching authorization at the Medical University of Innsbruck. From 2010, he developed a MALDI-TOF-based high-throughput system for genetic blood grouping at the Zurich Blood Donor Centre with his team and used it to test more than 80,000 Swiss blood donors.
Christoph has been a formal trainer of the German Society for Immunogenetics (DGI) since 2007 and Chairman of the Blood Group Terminology Working Group of the International Society for Transfusion Medicine (ISBT) since 2018. His research interests focus on the plasma membrane of red blood cells, their blood groups and - at the genetic level - the diverse immunological reactions they trigger.
Vice Rector for Research
Prof. Mag. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Gassner
Head of Institute, Vice-Rector Research
Institute of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Since 2021, Christoph Gassner acts as head of the recently founded Institute of Translational Medicine as Professor of Medical Biology. In the same year, he was appointed Vice-Rector for Research at the UFL.
Born in Lustenau, Christoph Gassner studied biology, specialising in microbiology and biochemistry, at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck and completed his doctorate in 1994 on the subject of “DNA methylation by the E. coli phage T1”. His civilian service then took him to the Austrian Red Cross and there to the Central Institute for Blood Transfusion at the Tyrolean Regional Hospitals, where he practised genetics and molecular diagnostics of tissue and blood groups until 1999. In 1999 and 2000 he spent research stays at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, US and at the Basel Institute for Immunology. There he deepened his knowledge in the field of immunogenetics. Back in Austria and inspired by the one-year extra-occupational course “Innovation, Product and Process Management”, the first commercial genetic diagnostic kits for various blood group characteristics were developed (worldwide). In 2005, Christoph Gassner habilitated as a private lecturer in medical biology with the topic “Genetic diagnostics of blood group RhD” and thus obtained formal teaching authorization at the Medical University of Innsbruck. From 2010, he developed a MALDI-TOF-based high-throughput system for genetic blood grouping at the Zurich Blood Donor Centre with his team and used it to test more than 80,000 Swiss blood donors.
Christoph has been a formal trainer of the German Society for Immunogenetics (DGI) since 2007 and Chairman of the Blood Group Terminology Working Group of the International Society for Transfusion Medicine (ISBT) since 2018. His research interests focus on the plasma membrane of red blood cells, their blood groups and - at the genetic level - the diverse immunological reactions they trigger.
The Senate is an independent body. It is the direct Supervisory body of the University Management for internal and organisational issues. It deals with the academic development of the University and can give its opinion to the attention of Members of Foundation Council on issues of importance to the University as a whole.
Chairman
Prof. Mag. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Gassner
Head of Institute, Vice-Rector Research
Institute of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Since 2021, Christoph Gassner acts as head of the recently founded Institute of Translational Medicine as Professor of Medical Biology. In the same year, he was appointed Vice-Rector for Research at the UFL.
Born in Lustenau, Christoph Gassner studied biology, specialising in microbiology and biochemistry, at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck and completed his doctorate in 1994 on the subject of “DNA methylation by the E. coli phage T1”. His civilian service then took him to the Austrian Red Cross and there to the Central Institute for Blood Transfusion at the Tyrolean Regional Hospitals, where he practised genetics and molecular diagnostics of tissue and blood groups until 1999. In 1999 and 2000 he spent research stays at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, US and at the Basel Institute for Immunology. There he deepened his knowledge in the field of immunogenetics. Back in Austria and inspired by the one-year extra-occupational course “Innovation, Product and Process Management”, the first commercial genetic diagnostic kits for various blood group characteristics were developed (worldwide). In 2005, Christoph Gassner habilitated as a private lecturer in medical biology with the topic “Genetic diagnostics of blood group RhD” and thus obtained formal teaching authorization at the Medical University of Innsbruck. From 2010, he developed a MALDI-TOF-based high-throughput system for genetic blood grouping at the Zurich Blood Donor Centre with his team and used it to test more than 80,000 Swiss blood donors.
Christoph has been a formal trainer of the German Society for Immunogenetics (DGI) since 2007 and Chairman of the Blood Group Terminology Working Group of the International Society for Transfusion Medicine (ISBT) since 2018. His research interests focus on the plasma membrane of red blood cells, their blood groups and - at the genetic level - the diverse immunological reactions they trigger.