Professor Rainer Blasczyk
About me
Rainer Blasczyk is Full Professor of Transfusion Medicine and Head of the Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering at Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hanover, Germany since 1998 as well as board member of the Transplantation Center at Hannover Medical School since 2019. He graduated in medicine from the Universities Bochum and Essen before completing postgraduate training at the Universities of Marburg, Essen, Duesseldorf and Berlin, where he started to work on Molecular Immunogenetics in 1993. After being appointed to his current position he initiated the research on transplant engineering.
Professor Blasczyk has a long term research interest in solid organ transplantation and transplantation immunology with a main focus on transplant tolerance and transplant engineering. His work centers around the alloimmune response in organ transplantation and therapeutic interventions to combat rejection and infection. This includes cellular and humoral immunotherapy as well as genetic and transplant engineering approaches to achieve transplantation tolerance.
Professor Blasczyk is founder and chairman of the Immunotherapy Foundation. He has been a member of the Advisory Board on Blood Products of the German Ministry of Health, President of the German Society of Immunogenetics (DGI) and the German Society of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology (DGTI) as well as a Board Member of the European Society of Immunogenetics (EFI).
His research aims to prevent transplant rejection by genetic allograft engineering. Professor Blasczyk is considered a pioneer in transplant engineering and highly specialized in the field of histocompatibility and immunogenetics. He is particularly interested in the genetic structure, molecular function and regulation of histocompatibility systems in order to identify therapeutic targets for graft engineering to substantially improve clinical outcome of transplantation. Professor Blasczyk has initiated the Research Network on Invisible Organs, a pioneering project on transplant engineering to combat organ rejection.
| 1981 - 1987 | Medical School, Universities of Bochum and Essen, Germany |
| 1987 - 1988 | Research fellow and postgraduate training in Surgery, Dept. of Visceral Surgery, University of Marburg, Germany |
| 1989 - 1991 | Research fellow and postgraduate training in Immunology, Institute of Immunology, University of Essen, Germany |
| 1992 - 1993 | Research fellow and postgraduate training in Hematology and Oncology, Dept. of Hematology and Oncology, University of Düsseldorf |
| 1993 - 1998 | Research group leader on Molecular Immunogenetics and postgraduate training in Transfusion Medicine, Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany |
| 1996 | Board Certification, Transfusion Medicine |
| 1997 | Habilitation in Transfusion Medicine, Member of the Faculty and Senior Lecturer, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany |
| Since 1998 | Full Professor of Transfusion Medicine and head of the Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany |
Research Fields
- Transplant Engineering
- Transplant Immunology
- Genetic Engineering
| 2001 | Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board, Imusyn Ltd. (Biotech) |
| 2005 | Founder and chairman, Foundation of Immunotherapy |
| Since 2006 | Editorial Board, HLA (formerly known as Tissue Antigens; Wiley) |
| 2006 – 2008 | President, German Society for Immunogenetics (DGI) |
| 2007 – 2010 | Executive Board, European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI) |
| 2007 – 2014 | Scientific Advisory Board, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Germany |
| 2009 – 2019 | Scientific Advisory Board, European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI) |
| Since 2011 | Editorial Board, Transfusionsmedizin (Thieme) |
| 2012 – 2014 | President, German Society for Immunogenetics (DGI) |
| 2014 – 2018 | Management Board, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Germany |
| 2015 – 2016 | President, German Society for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology (DGTI) |
| 2016 – 2019 | Advisory board on blood products, German Ministry of Health |
| Since 2018 | Chairman of the Management Board, Research Network Invisible Organs |
| Since 2019 | Management Board, Transplantation Center at Hannover Medical School |
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Rainer Blasczyk, MD
Professor and Chairman
Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering
Hannover Medical School
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
30625 Hanover, Germany
T +49 511 532 6700
F +49 511 532 2079
blasczyk.rainer@mh-hannover.de