Alfred GANGL earned his medical degree at the University of Vienna. After finishing his postdoc education in Medicine and Gastroenterology in Vienna he served as a Research Fellow with Bob Ockner and Rudi Schmid at the University of California in San Francisco, where he engaged himself in studies of intestinal fatty acid metabolism. In 1982 he was appointed as Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Vienna and served at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus as Chief in GI, Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty (2years) and Chairman of the Department of Medicine 4 over a period of almost 30 years. He pursued his research interest in fatty acid-, iron-. and copper metabolism, pathophysiologic and clinical aspects of gastrointestinal and liver diseases including liver transplantation and intensive care medicine. He published more than 200 original SCI journal papers and numerous book chapters. As full member of the Medical Faculty he served in many faculty committees, was continuously engaged in the teaching of students, postgraduate education and speciality training of trainees in medicine, subspeciality training in gastroenterology and hepatology and in GI-endoscopy. He served as Editor and Reviewer for several academic journals, conceived, supervised and performed many clinical trials and research projects, acted as President of the Austrian Society of Internal Medicine, of the Austrian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and of the 9th World Congress of Digestive Endoscopy. He is distinguished Honorary Member of several scientific societies and Professor emeritus at the Medical University of Vienna since 2009.