Austrian Academy of Sciences appoints Kaan Boztug as corresponding member

(Vienna, 13.5.2022) Congratulations to St. Anna CCRI’s scientific director Kaan Boztug, who has been elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) has elected 45 new members. In this year’s elections, 14 female researchers and 31 male researchers from a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, social and cultural sciences, as well as mathematics, natural and technical sciences, were awarded membership in the OeAW for their outstanding scientific achievements.  >> Learn more

The election of new members takes place once a year. Essential for admission is that the persons meet the highest standards of personality, scientific work and reputation in the scientific community and come from different disciplines.

About Kaan Boztug
Kaan Boztug (MD) completed his medical studies in Düsseldorf and Freiburg as well as London. He also obtained a doctorate at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, USA, before completing his clinical training and postdoctoral research at Hanover Medical School. In 2011 he started working at the Medical University Vienna’s Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and became a Principal Investigator at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Kaan Boztug became scientific director at St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI) in 2019. His research group focuses on inborn immune disorders and inherited predisposition to childhood tumors, aiming to understand fundamental mechanisms of immune surveillance relevant to pediatric oncology and immunotherapy approaches. Besides his work at CeMM and CCRI, Kaan Boztug is head of the CeRUD Vienna Center for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases at Medical University Vienna, Senior Doctor at the Department of Haematology and Oncology at St. Anna Children’s Hospital, and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases (LBI-RUD).