The AUVA Research Center for Traumatology
Directors: Heinz Redl, PhD and Albert Kröpfl, MD
The Austrian Workers' Compensation Board (AUVA) Center for Traumatology Research encompasses the AUVA Institute for Traumatology Research and, as of 1980, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology (Boltzmann Society), receiving additional support from the Trauma Care Consult since 1998. The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology has been a part of the Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration since 2006.
The Research Center is located in the Lorenz Böhler Trauma Center in Vienna, Austria. In 2003, a satellite laboratory was established in Linz, Upper Austria, devoted to human adult stem cell research; the laboratory operates in conjunction with the Red Cross Bloodbank of Upper Austria.
Mission
The primary objective of the Center for Traumatology Research is to improve diagnostic and therapeutic measures in emergency medicine and trauma surgery. Interdisciplinary cooperation allows the Center to be engaged in many fields of medicine, stemming not only from diverse research projects, but also analysis of international research results and their practical application within the AUVA (clinical studies and Continuing Education). Furthermore, the Research Center is involved in numerous Austrian and European research projects (see Member of).
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