Research Laboratories
The research interests of participating laboratories cover many immunological topics including basic aspects of immune cell development and function, activation of immune cells, signal transduction, autoimmunity, infectiology, allergy research, clinical immunology, vaccine development, tumor immunology and transplantation immunology. A summary of research topics of participating Faculty members is provided in the individual research laboratory description at the left.
If you are interested in a PhD position in a particular laboratory, please contact the respective Faculty member.
Members - Research Groups
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| Name | Research Area |
|---|---|
| A | |
| Aberle Judith | Encephalitis; Tick-Borne; Epitope Mapping; Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte; Flavivirus Infections; Immunodominant Epitopes; Yellow Fever Vaccine; Yellow fever virus |
| B | |
| Barisani-Asenbauer, Talin | Diagnoses and Therapy of Immunological Diseases; Vaccinology |
| Berger, Angelika | Infection & Immunology; Immune Cell Development; Diagnoses and Therapy of Infectious Diseases |
| Bergmann, Michael | Colorectal Neoplasms; Hereditary Nonpolyposis; Colorectal Surgery; Influenza Vaccines; Innate Immunity; Oncolytic Virotherapy; Telomere; Tumor Markers, Biological |
| Bergthaler, Andreas | Infection & Immunity; Immunoregulation; Inflammation & Autoimmunity |
| Blüml Stephan | Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin; Rheumatologie; Pathogenese der inflammatorischen Arthritis |
| Bohle, Barbara | Allergy and Immunology |
| Bonelli, Michael | Arthritis, Rheumatoid; Epigenomics; Lupus Erythematosus; Systemic; T Cells |
| Boucheron, Nicole | Animal Diseases; Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte; CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes |
| Boztug, Kaan | Genetics of Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders; Diagnosis and Therapy of Immunological Diseases; Inflammation & Autoimmunity |
| Breiteneder, Heimo | Allergy Research; Immunoregulation;Tumorimmunology |
| Bublin, Merima | Allergy Research |
| Burgmann, Heinz | Infektiologie; Tropenmedizin; Internistische Intensivmedizin |
| D | |
| Duchène, Michael | Infection & Immunity; Allergy Research |
| E | |
| Eckhart, Leopold | Apoptosis; Autophagy; Caspases; Endonucleases; Epidermis; Evolution, Molecular; Genomics; Keratinocytes; Keratins; Melanocytes; Neurons; Skin; Skin Diseases |
| Elbe-Bürger, Adelheid | Skin |
| Ellmeier, Wilfried | Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte; CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes; CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes; Gene Regulatory Networks; Inflammation; T Cells; T-Lymphocyte Subsets |
| Epstein, Michelle | Allergy and Immunology; Animal models; Asthma; Biocompatible Materials; Biomimetic Materials |
F | |
| Farlik-Födinger, Matthias | Dermatology |
| Flicker, Sabine | Allergy and Immunology; Antibodies |
| Forstner, Christina | Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial; Mycoses; Vaccination |
| Förster-Waldl, Elisabeth | Clinical Immunology; Immunological immaturity of the neonate; Inborn Deficiencies of the Immune System; Innate Immunity; Pediatric vaccinology |
| G | |
| Geleff, Silvana | Lungenpathologie |
| Görzer Irene | Virus genome diversity |
| H | |
| Haschemi, Arvand | Carbohydrate Metabolism; Cell Biology; Glycolysis; Inflammation; Macrophage Activation; Metabolic Networks and Pathways; Molecular Biology; Multimodal Imaging; Pentose Phosphate Pathway; Tumor Markers, Biological |
| Heinz, Franz Xaver | Dissection of humoral and cellular immune responses to flaviviruses |
| Herbst, Ruth | Endocytosis; Muscles; Neuromuscular Junction; Protein Trafficking; Proteomics; Receptor Tyrosine Kinases; Signal Transduction |
| Herndler-Brandstetter, Dietmar | Breast Cancer; Immune Evasion; Immune System; Immunotherapy; T Cells; Tumor Microenvironment |
| Holter, Wolfgang | Childhood malignancies; Viral infections following stem cell transplantation. |
| Huppa, Johannes | Adaptive Immunity; Autoimmunity; Biophysics; Cell Biology; Microscopy |
| J | |
| Jantsch, Franz | Cell Biology; Muscle, Smooth, Vascular; RNA, Double-Stranded; RNA, Messenger; Transcriptome |
| Jensen-Jarolim, Erika | Allergy and Immunology; Allergy Diagnosis; Clinical Immunology; Dermatology; Oncology; Vaccinology |
| K | |
| Kain, Renate | Allergy and Immunology; Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis; Autoantibodies; Autoimmune Diseases; Autophagy; Cell Biology; Exosomes; Genomics; Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 2; Microbiology; Microscopy; Microscopy, Confocal; Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; Microscopy, Immunoelectron; Nephrology; Pathology; Proteomics |
| Kirnbauer, Reinhard | Infection & Immunity, Tumorimmunology, Vaccinology |
| Kirschner, Alexander | Water Microbiology |
| Klein, Reinhard | Virologie, Molekularbiologie |
| Knapp, Sylvia | Bacterial Infections; Immunity, Innate; Inflammation; Macrophages |
| König, Eva | Tumor Immunoediting |
| Kreil Thomas | |
| Kuchler, Karl | Antifungal Agents; Drug Discovery; Drug Resistance, Multiple, Fungal; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Inflammation Mediators; Innate Immunity; MAP Kinase Signaling System; Receptors, Pattern Recognition |
| L | |
| Leitsch, David | Antiparasitic Agents; Drug Resistance |
| Leksa, Vladimir | Diagnoses and Therapy of Immunological Diseases; Infection & Immunity; Tumorimmunology; |
| Linhart, Birgit | Pathomechanisms of Allergy |
| Lion, Thomas | Molecular Microbiology; Myeloid Leukemias |
| M | |
| Ma, Yan | Allergy Research, Immundermatology, Immunoregulation |
| Mechtcheriakova, Diana | Adaptive Immunity; B-Lymphocyte Subsets; B-Lymphocytes; Colorectal Neoplasms; Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition; Gene Expression Profiling; Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating; Ovarian Neoplasms; Receptors, Lysosphingolipid; Sphingolipids; Systems Biology |
| Mildner, Michael | Keratinocytes; Regeneration; Wound Healing |
| N | |
| Nürnberger Sylvia | Adhesives; Anti-Inflammatory Agents; Biochemistry; Biocompatible Materials; Bioreactors; Cartilage; Chondrocytes; Extracellular Matrix; Histology; In Vitro; Mesenchymal Stromal Cells; Microscopy, Electron, Scanning Transmission; Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; Tissue Engineering; Tissue Scaffolds; Transduction, Genetic; Translational Medical Research |
| O | |
| Oberbauer, Rainer | Kidney Diseases; Kidney Transplantation |
| Oehler, Rudolf | Allergy and Immunology; Biotechnology; Cell Biology; Cell Culture Techniques; Granulocyte Immunology; Molecular Biology; Oncology |
| P | |
| Pickl, Winfried F. | Allergy Research, Diagnoses and Therapy of Immunological Diseases, Immunoregulation, Transplantation |
| Pilat-Michalek, Nina | Costimulatory and Inhibitory T-Cell Receptors; Flow Cytometry; T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory; Translational Medical Research; Transplantation; Transplantation Chimera; Transplantation Immunology; Transplantation Tolerance |
| Pollheimer Jürgen | Cell Differentiation; Developmental Biology; Placenta |
| R | |
| Radauer, Christian | Allergens; Allergy and Immunology; Biochemistry; Pollen Allergy |
| Repic, Ana | Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Immunology |
| S | |
| Sakaguchi, Shinya | T cell development, CD8+ T cell subsets, transcriptional networks, epigenetic gene regulation, viral infection |
| Schabbauer, Gernot | Autoimmune Diseases; Biology; Clinical Immunology; Innate Immunity; Molecular Biology |
| Schabussova, Irma | Institut für Spezifische Prophylaxe und Tropenmedizin |
| Sibilia, Maria | Zelluläre und molekulare Tumorbiologie |
| Schmetterer, Klaus | Adaptive Immunity |
| Sharif, Omar | Research Lab Infection Biology |
| Starkl, Philipp | Adaptive Immunity; Allergy and Immunology; Basophils; Eosinophils; Immunoglobulin E; Innate Immunity; Mast Cells |
| Stary, Georg | Universitätsklinik für Dermatologie |
| Seiser, Christian | Chromatin; Epigenetic Repression; Signal Transduction |
| Steinberger, Peter | Allergy Research, Immunoregulation, Tumorimmunology, T cell activation, Costimulation, Regulation of T cell Responses Receptor-Ligand-Interaction |
| Steiner, Günter | Diagnoses & Therapy of Immunological Diseases, Inflammation & Autoimmunity, Pathogenesis of systemic autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, autoantibodies, pathogenetic involvement of nucleic acid recognizing Toll-like receptors. |
| Steininger, Christoph | Actinomyces; Clinical virology ; Cytomegalovirus; Helicobacter; Immunity, Humoral; Immunosuppression; Cytomegalovirus structure and B-cell immunity in relation to hemato-oncologic diseases and immunosuppression |
| Stiasny, Karin | Binding Sites, Antibody; Flavivirus |
| Stockinger, Hannes | Adaptive Immunity; Bacterial Infections; Immunity, Innate; Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Macrophages |
| Swoboda, Ines | FH Campis Wien - Kompetenzzentrum für Molecular Biotechnology |
| Szepfalusi, Zolt | Allergy Diagnosis; Immunotherapy; Primary Prevention; Secondary Prevention; Sublingual Immunotherapy |
| U | |
| Untersmayr-Elsenhuber, Eva | Gastrointestinal Immunology; Zentrum für Pathophysiologie, Infektiologie und Immunologie |
| V | |
| Valenta, Rudolf | Allergy and Immunology |
| Villunger, Andreas | Lymphocyte development and transformation, innate and adoptive immunity, cell death signaling, Bc12 family proteins, caspases, p53 signaling |
| Vrtala, Susanne | Allergy research, characterization of mite allergens, production of hypoallergenic mite allergen derivatives, improvement of diagnosis and immunotherapy of mite allergy. |
| W | |
| Walochnik, Julia | Acanthamoeba; Leishmania; Parasites; Parasitic Diseases; Protozoan Infections |
| Weichhart, Thomas | Cholesterol, HDL; Dendritic Cells; Granuloma; Innate Immunity; Macrophages; Metabolism; Translational Medical Research |
| Wekerle, Thomas | Clinical Immunology; Costimulatory and Inhibitory T-Cell Receptors; Immunosuppression; Models, Animal; Models, Immunological; T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory; Translational Medical Research; Transplantation; Transplantation Chimera; Transplantation Immunology; Transplantation Tolerance |
| Weninger, Wolfgang Peter | Universitätsklinik für Dermatologie; |
| Wiedermann-Schmidt, Ursula | Allergy and Immunology; Vaccinology |
| Wisgrill, Lukas | Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde, Neonatal & Pediatric Systems Immunology |
| Z | |
| Zeitlinger, Markus | Antibiosis; Bacterial Infections; Clinical Trial, Phase I; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Approval; Drug Interactions; Drug Monitoring; Microdialysis; Pharmacokinetics |