Chairman & CTO, AUSTRIANOVA

Prof. Walter H. Günzburg, Ph.D. is the Chairman and one of the founders of the company.
He is also Professor of Virology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria and formerly an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore. He was a founder, board member and former Chairman of Virusure GmbH, a virus testing company located in Vienna, Austria that has recently been acquired by Asahi-Kasei and has also been an advisor to Paktis (Germany) and Tocagen (USA).

He has also served as a member of German Federal Medical Association Ethics Committee for Gene Therapy (Kommission Somatische Gentherapie der Bundesärztekammer) since 1997 as well as the European Academy for the Study of Consequences of Scientific and Technological Advances (since 1998).

Prof. Günzburg has 40 years’ experience in virology, and 25 years’ experience in cell therapy and bioencapsulation. He has published numerous peer reviewed scientific publications.