Katharina Schallmoser

Dr. Schallmoser graduated in medicine at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. After completing post-doctoral research fellowships in Internal Medicine and Biochemistry, she worked as physician researcher at the Department of Transfusion Medicine of the Medical Universities of Graz and Vienna focusing on platelet immunology and platelet function. As a member of the Stem Cell Research Unit at the Medical University of Graz, she contributed to the development of human platelet lysate as a raw material for cell culture and GMP-compliant production of endothelial and mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells. In 2013 she has been appointed as Deputy Head, Senior Physician and Senior Scientist at the Department of Transfusion Medicine of the PMU Salzburg, responsible for the production and optimization of GMP-compliant human platelet-derived cell culture supplements.