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Bio: Urs E. Nydegger, MD
Transfusion and Apheresis Science 52 (2015) 260
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Bio: Urs E. Nydegger, MD Urs Nydegger * Labormedizinisches Zentrum Dr. Risch, Bern-Liebefeld, CH 3097, Switzerland
Presently, Dr. Nydegger serves as senior consultant for the Central Medical Laboratories/Dr. Risch, a Liechtensteinbased enterprise dedicated to excellence in clinical laboratory testing. He is an alumnus and Titular Professor of the
* Corresponding author: Labormedizinisches Zentrum Dr., Risch, BernLiebefeld, CH 3097, Switzerland. Tel.: +41319790031; fax: +41319790088. E-mail address: [email protected]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.transci.2015.04.003 1473-0502/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
University of Bern, where he was Head of the Blood Bank (1985–2001), later Head of Research and Development at the Clinic of Cardiovascular Surgery (2006–). Dr. Nydegger was educated at the University Hospitals of Bern and Geneva, as well as Harvard Medical School, where he received a 2-year research fellowship mentored by Dr. K. Frank Austen and Dr. Douglas T. Fearon. This training became the impetus for life-long studies of innate immunity, the complement system and therapeutic immunoglobulins. Currently, Dr. Nydegger serves on the scientific board of SwissMedLab, a Congress and Fair in Laboratory Medicine June 14 to 16 2016 (http://www.swissmedlab.ch). Dr. Nydegger was an early practitioner of plasma exchange therapy, at times prescribing such treatments on loose evidence based grounds, e.g. hemolytic uremic syndrome in the 1980s, in the meantime a rationale-based indication. Dr. Nydegger’s scientific contributions on optimal replacement fluids and the ABO histo blood group system remain subjects of translational application to clinical care, notably in organ transplantation. Based on these areas of scientific expertise, Dr. Nydegger has served as Senior Editor of Transfusion & Apheresis Science, from its inception to the present. Dr. Nydegger is a life member of the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine and an Honorary Member of the Swiss Society of Hematology and of the Swiss Association of Transfusion Medicine.
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Transfusion and Apheresis Science j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s e v i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / t r a n s c i
Review
Bio: Urs E. Nydegger, MD Urs Nydegger * Labormedizinisches Zentrum Dr. Risch, Bern-Liebefeld, CH 3097, Switzerland
Presently, Dr. Nydegger serves as senior consultant for the Central Medical Laboratories/Dr. Risch, a Liechtensteinbased enterprise dedicated to excellence in clinical laboratory testing. He is an alumnus and Titular Professor of the
* Corresponding author: Labormedizinisches Zentrum Dr., Risch, BernLiebefeld, CH 3097, Switzerland. Tel.: +41319790031; fax: +41319790088. E-mail address: [email protected]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.transci.2015.04.003 1473-0502/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
University of Bern, where he was Head of the Blood Bank (1985–2001), later Head of Research and Development at the Clinic of Cardiovascular Surgery (2006–). Dr. Nydegger was educated at the University Hospitals of Bern and Geneva, as well as Harvard Medical School, where he received a 2-year research fellowship mentored by Dr. K. Frank Austen and Dr. Douglas T. Fearon. This training became the impetus for life-long studies of innate immunity, the complement system and therapeutic immunoglobulins. Currently, Dr. Nydegger serves on the scientific board of SwissMedLab, a Congress and Fair in Laboratory Medicine June 14 to 16 2016 (http://www.swissmedlab.ch). Dr. Nydegger was an early practitioner of plasma exchange therapy, at times prescribing such treatments on loose evidence based grounds, e.g. hemolytic uremic syndrome in the 1980s, in the meantime a rationale-based indication. Dr. Nydegger’s scientific contributions on optimal replacement fluids and the ABO histo blood group system remain subjects of translational application to clinical care, notably in organ transplantation. Based on these areas of scientific expertise, Dr. Nydegger has served as Senior Editor of Transfusion & Apheresis Science, from its inception to the present. Dr. Nydegger is a life member of the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine and an Honorary Member of the Swiss Society of Hematology and of the Swiss Association of Transfusion Medicine.