Till VOIGTLAENDER

Till Voigtländer studied medicine in Heidelberg and Berlin before going on to complete his specialist training in neurobiology at the Institute of Neurology in Vienna. He gained his postdoctoral lecture qualification in neurosciences (habilitation treatise: "Mechanisms of neuronal death in prion diseases") at MedUni Vienna in 2009 and has been an Associate Professor since 2015.

Since 2004, Till Voigtländer has been the Austrian Coordinator for Orphanet, which is now a globally recognised reference database for rare diseases (www.orpha.net). Orphanet makes high-quality information about rare diseases freely available on the Internet, in order to improve the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients with rare diseases. Today the project consists of a consortium of around 40 partner countries throughout the world.

Till Voigtländer is a member of national and international committees: for example he has previously served as Austrian representative on the European Union Committee of Experts on Rare Diseases (EUCERD, 2010-2013), the European Commission Expert Group on Rare Diseases (CEGRD, 2014-2016) and the Cross-border Healthcare Directive Expert Group (2012-2013), and is currently on the Austrian Ministry of Health's Advisory Board on Rare Disease and Co-Chair of the European Commission's Board of Member States on European Reference Networks. He regularly lectures at national and international events.