Prof. Dr. Harald Mischak

Harald Mischak, born 1961 St. Pölten in Austria, received his PhD in technical science from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, in 1986 (grade “excellent”). Between 1988 and 1993, after postdoctoral work on the Rhinovirus receptor at the University of Vienna (Institute for Biochemistry), he worked as an invited scientist on signalling by protein kinase C and Raf at the Laboratory of Viral Carcinogenesis (funded by the Fulbright Foundation) and as a Schroedinger and Fogarty Fellow at the Laboratory of Genetics of NIH National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. He continued his research on kinases as Group Leader at the GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany from 1993-1998. He wrote his habilitation in clinical microbiology at the Technische Universität München on Protein Kinase C in Signal Transduction. After one year as a scientific group leader at Franz-Volhard Klinikum (MDC) at Berlin-Buch, he worked on the structure of kinases and related molecules at the NIDDK, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
In 1999 he took up a position at the Department of Nephrology at Medical School of Hannover. Here he founded Mosaiques diagnostics and therapeutics AG in 2002, which was started with the aim to identify disease-specific polypeptides.
Currently, he holds a position as Professor in the Dep. of Nephrology at the Medical School of Hannover, and is director of Mosaiques AG as well as general manager of Mosaiques diagnostics GmbH and Mosaiques DiaPat GmbH.
With more than 100 manuscripts published on signaling and proteomics, he is one of the leading experts worldwide in the field of proteome research.