Theodor Billroth Prize for MedUni Vienna researchers

This year, Vienna Medical Association's Theodor Billroth Prize was divided equally between three researchers from MedUni Vienna: Roman Reindl-Schwaighofer, Philipp Tschandl and Lucian Beer. The First Bank of Austria research funding prize also went to MedUni Vienna employees, namely Konstantin Bergmeister, Christoph Binder and Wolfgang Winnicki. Similarly, the awarded Quality Seals also went to MedUni Vienna researchers.

Vienna Medical Association's Theodor Billroth Prize

1. "Contribution of non-HLA incompatibility between donor and recipient to kidney allograft survival: genome-wide analysis in a prospective cohort" Published in: The Lancet, February 2019
Roman Reindl-Schwaighofer

2. "The HAM10000 dataset, a large collection of multi-source dermatoscopic images of common pigmented skin lesions" Published in: Scientific Data, August 2018
Philipp Tschandl

3. "Comparison of RECIST, iRECIST, and PERCIST for the Evaluation of Response to PD-1/PD-L1 Blockade Therapy in Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer" Published in: Clinical Nuclear Medicine, April 2019
Lucian Beer

Erste Bank der Österreichischen Sparkassen AG (First Bank of Austria) Research Funding Prize

1. "Peripheral nerve transfers change target muscle function and structure" Published in: Science Advances, January 2019
Konstantin Bergmeister

2. "A Mixes  Lipid Emulsion Containing Fish Oil and Its Effect on Electrophysiological Brain Maturation in Infants of Extremely Low Birth Weight: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial" Published in: The Journal of Pediatrics, April 2019
Christoph Binder

3. "Prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis infection and hyperinfection syndrome among renal allograft recipients in Central Europe" Published in: Scientific Reports, October 2018
Wolfgang Winnicki

Vienna Medical Association's Theodor Billroth Prize Quality Seals

1. "Intrauterine Fetal Growth Delay During Late Pregnancy After Maternal Gastric Bypass Surgery" Published in: "Ultraschall in der Medizin", October 2018
Michael Feichtinger

2. "Dual-energy CT and ceramic or titanium prostheses material reduce CT artifacts  and provide superior image quality of total knee arthroplasty" Published in: Knee Surgery
Maximilian Kasparek

3. "Risk Factors of Subsequent Primary Melanomas in Austria" Published in: JAMA Dermatology, December 2018
Christoph Müller

First Bank of Austria Research Funding Prize Quality Seals

1. "The soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator riociguat reduces fibrogenesis and portal pressure in cirrhotic rats" Published in: Scientific Reports, June 2018
Philipp SCHWABL

2. "Domain-specific classification-pretrained fully convolutional network decoders  for skin lesion segmentation" Published in: Computers in Biology and Medicine, January 2019
Philipp TSCHANDL

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