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Speaker Details

Nina Worel Physician Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Wien Austria


"Specialist for Transfusion Medicine, Dept. of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, Medical University Vienna; Deputy Department Chair
I completed my medical studies at the Medical University of Vienna where I also received my clinical training. For many years, I was a fellow at the bone marrow transplantation unit and the ICU. I completed my special education in transfusion medicine and serve as the medical director of the tissue & cell collection and processing facility and the therapeutic apheresis unit and the Medical University of Vienna. In 2018, I joined Prof. Ulrike Köhl’s GMP development unit at Hannover Medical School and Fraunhofer institute in Leipzig to get expertise in CAR-T cell manufacturing and since 2019 I am the head of ATMP manufacturing at our department.
Since 2016, I am sub-investigator in several clinical CAR-T cell trials and responsible for collection of starting materials also for all approved CART products available in our hospital.
I have been associated with JACIE since 2002 and am a member of the JACIE executive committee and national representative.
Member of:
 Transplantation Working Group of the Austrian Institute for Health
 Medical Board of the Austrian Stem Cell Donor Registry
 Chair of the EBMT donor outcome committee
 Co-Chair of the WBMT Donor Issues standing committee
 JACIE executive board
 EBMT delegate for the European Committee on Organ Transplantation (CD-P-TO) with competencies in the field of tissues and/or cells for human application
 National representative and member of the executive board of JACIE"