Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy
Position: Doctor-in-training
ORCID: 0000-0001-9763-9422
marlene.stuempflen@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Brain Mapping; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders; Fetal Development; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Neuroimaging; Radiology
Research interests
Marlene Stuempflen, MD is a resident at the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. She obtained her medical degree at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria in 2020 and is currently conducting her PhD studies in Medical Imaging at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria specialising in fetal MRI.
Her research focus lies in the field of quantitative prenatal neuroimaging: She aims to shed light on the intricate spatiotemporal dynamics of fetal neurodevelopment in health and disease through the application of advanced imaging and postprocessing techniques including volumetry and human brain mapping.
Her main research interests include:
Magnetic resonance imaging, Human brain mapping, Fetal neurodevelopment, Ganglionic eminence, Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Selected publications
- Stuempflen, M. et al. (2023) ‘The ganglionic eminence: volumetric assessment of transient brain structure utilizing fetal magnetic resonance imaging’, Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology [Preprint]. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/uog.26232.
- Stuempflen, M. et al. (2023) ‘Fetal MRI based brain atlas analysis detects initial in utero effects of prenatal alcohol exposure’, Cerebral Cortex, 33(11), pp. 6852–6861. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad005.
- Berger-Kulemann, V. ... Stuempflen, M. (2025) ‘Assessment of fetal hepatic lipid content by magnetic resonance imaging and association of results with clinical maternal and fetal parameters’, European Journal of Radiology, 186, p. 112061. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2025.112061.
- Li, C. ... Stuempflen, M ... et al. (2023) ‘Single-cell brain organoid screening identifies developmental defects in autism’, Nature, 621(7978), pp. 373–380. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06473-y.
- Martins-Costa, C. ... Stuempflen, M ... et al. (2024) ‘ARID1B controls transcriptional programs of axon projection in an organoid model of the human corpus callosum’, Cell Stem Cell, 31(6), pp. 866-885.e14. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2024.04.014.