3rd Impact MED Call: Ten Research Proposals Receive Funding

The Faculty of Medicine's MED Impact Call provides innovative research proposals with up to € 50,000 in funding over a two-year period.

MED Campus; Credit: JKU/Martin Steinkellner
MED Campus; Credit: JKU/Martin Steinkellner

The program was designed to generate preliminary data that can be used for follow-up applications to national or international funding agencies. Research by junior researchers and researchers returning from a hiatus is given special consideration in terms of funding. As part of the 3rd annual 2024 Impetus MED Call, ten research proposals were awarded with funding. Those eligible to apply include all of the employees at teaching hospitals/(clinical) institutes/departments, and clinical research institutes at the JKU, as well as KMA or ACSP participants holding a PhD or Dr.scient.med title and who have a publication record.

The 2024 program will provide the following scholars and researchers with funding:

  • Matthias Gmeiner, Neurosurgery, “Chronic Subdural Hematoma Risk Identification using Segmentation and Prediction
  • Ahmad Salti, Ophthalmology and optometry, “Upscaling Patient-derived and Isogenic control Retinal Organoids
  • Jakob Völkl, Physiology, „Calcium, Phosphat und Mineral Stress in der Schwangerschaft
  • Adela Tiffner, Physiologiy, “Phosphate Intake Induces Vegetative System Alterations in Healthy Humans
  • Dominik Laister, Developmental medicine, “Enhancing Emotion Regulation in Children with Autism through Extended Reality
  • Barbara Arbeithuber, Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gyn. Endocrinology, “Ferroptosis as a Strategy to Overcome Chemotherapy Resistance in Ovarian Cancer
  • Christian Wechselberger, Pathophysiology, “Particulate Matter as a Shuttle for Horizontal Gene Transfer
  • Verena Charwat, Pathophysiology, “3D Neuro-cardiac in vitro System for Diabetes Research
  • Cornelia Roschger, Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, “Towards non-invasive, high-throughput lung cancer screening: Biomarker detection in saliva via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
  • Markus Mandl, Pathophysiology, “A Novel Patient-Derived In Vitro Model to Study Epicardial Adipose Tissue – Cardiomyocyte Interactions