Alexander von Gabain

Alexander von Gabain is a co-founder of Intercell, chairman of Intercell's Scientific Advisory Board and serves the Company today as strategic advisor

He obtained his Ph.D. in Genetics at the University of Heidelberg and held a post-doctorate position at the Stanford University. In the 1980s and 1990s he was a Professor at the University of Umeå and at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, as well as advisor to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. During 1992-1998 he was Chair of Microbiology at the University of Vienna at the Campus Vienna Biocenter, Austria. In 1997, he co-founded Intercell AG and led the company as CEO, until it was floated on the Vienna Stock Market in 2005. Today he supports the company as strategic advisor to both the Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

He is holding a professorship of Microbiology at the Max Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, and a foreign adjunct professorship at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He serves on the Supervisory Board of INTiTS, the enterpreneurial support service of the Universities of Vienna for start-up businesses. Furthermore, he acts as a scientific advisor at TVM Capital and is also a member of the WHO Committee "Stop Tuberculosis". In 2008, he was appointed to the Governing Board of the Eurpopean Institute of Innovation and Technology. In November 2009 Alexander von Gabain was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).