For the year 2025, the official presentation of the ÖGAI awards took place on August 19, 2025 as part of an ÖGAI symposium at the 19th IUIS Congress of Immunology (IUIS2025) in Vienna.
Clemens von Pirquet Prize 2025
Mariem Radhouani, Department of Medicine 1, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna.
“Eosinophil innate immune memory after bacterial skin infection promotes allergic lung inflammation” (Science Immunology, PMID: 40184438).
Karl Landsteiner Prize 2025
Asma Fahrat, Department of Medicine 1, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna.
“An aging bone marrow exacerbates lung fibrosis by fueling profibrotic macrophage persistence” (Science Immunology, PMID: 40153488)
Fritz and Ursula Melchers ÖGAI Dissertation Prize 2025
Jana Block, St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute, Vienna.
Title of thesis: “Identification of germline loss-of-function mutations in DOCK11 in a novel immune dysregulation disorder”
ÖGAI Dissertation Prize 2025
Maximilian Funk, Institute of Immunology, Medical University of Vienna.
Title of thesis: “Improving specificity of CAR-T cells through inhibitory CARs”
