Keywords
Kidney Diseases; Kidney Transplantation
Research group(s)
- Nephrogene
Head: Rainer Oberbauer
Research Area: Academic Research in Genetic and Clinical Epidemiology of Kidney Disease.
Members:
Research interests
Alloimmune response in kidney transplantation, acute renal allograft failure, genetic and clinical epidemiology of kidney disease
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
Transcriptomics, Luminex, standard molecular biology techniques (W, n, blotting, ELISA, PCR) Biostatistcis
Grants
- Inhibition of miR-182 to prevent postischemic acute renal allograft failure in vivo (2013)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Stand-Alone Projects
Principal Investigator - miRNA regulation of renal transplant rejection and acute transplant failure (2009)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Stand-Alone Projects
Principal Investigator - SysKID - Systems biology towards novel chronic kidney disease diagnosis and treatment (project partner) (2009)
Source of Funding: EU, FP7-HEALTH-2009
Principal Investigator
Selected publications
- Schaller, S. et al., 2015. ImmunExplorer (IMEX): a software framework for diversity and clonality analyses of immunoglobulins and T cell receptors on the basis of IMGT/HighV-QUEST preprocessed NGS data. BMC Bioinformatics, 16(1). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-015-0687-9.
- Dunkler, D. et al., 2015. Dietary risk factors for incidence or progression of chronic kidney disease in individuals with type 2 diabetes in the European Union. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 30(suppl 4), pp.iv76-iv85. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfv086.
- Regele, F. et al., 2015. Genome-wide studies to identify risk factors for kidney disease with a focus on patients with diabetes. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 30(suppl 4), pp.iv26-iv34. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfv087.
- Dunkler, D. et al., 2015. Risk Prediction for Early CKD in Type 2 Diabetes. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 10(8), pp.1371-1379. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2215/CJN.10321014.
- PMID: 25093671