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Management
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Dr. Walter Schmidt
Founder and Chief Executive
Officer
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| Dr. Walter Schmidt is a founder of AFFiRiS
and the CEO of the company. He is also a founder of InterCell
AG, the first Austrian biotech company that was initiated
on the basis of international venture capital in 1998.
He invented InterCell's key vaccine technologies, on which
this company is based and which are now under phase II
clinical testing in HCV patients. After establishing the
company he took over a senior management position in business
development with InterCell. Prior to founding InterCell,
from 1991 to 1997 he was working as staff scientist with
Max Birnstiel on cancer vaccines at Boehringer Ingelheim´s
Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna. Walter Schmidt
got his PhD in 1990 with Fritz Eckstein at the Max Planck
Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen,
Germany. His thesis in the field of HIV was awarded with
the Otto Hahn medal for outstanding young scientists,
and since then he became the author of numerous scientific
key publications. Walter Schmidt is the inventor of several
fundamental patents/patent applications in the field of
vaccines and he is furthermore particularly experienced
in the establishment and development of start up biotech
companies.
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