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Ass. Prof. Ahmad Salti, Dr. Phil.

Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

Head of the research group Cellular and Molecular Ophthalmology; University clinic for Ophthalmology und Optometry; Medical Faculty; Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Assistant Prof. Tenure Track position; Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Postdoc-Training

Postdoc; University of Innsbruck, Depart. of Genomics, stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, Innsbruck, Austria.
Research projects:
1) Age-induced organoid models for deciphering risk factors of Parkinson’s disease.
2) Human induced pluripotent and neural stem cell reprogramming and differentiation toward dopaminergic neurons for the treatment of Parkinson disease.
3) Exploring the therapeutic potential of induced neural stem cells for Parkinson’s disease treatment employing a syngenic monkey model.
4) Role of Fahd1 in mouse embryonic fibroblasts reprogramming.
 

Postdoc; Catholic University of Louvain, Institute of life Sciences, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Research project: Cellular and Molecular analysis of the role of Hoxa5 in the adult brain.
 

Postdoc; Medical University Innsbruck; Experimental Psychiatry Unit; Innsbruck; Austria.
 Research project: Neurobiology of Social interaction as an alternative to drugs of abuse.
 

Academic Education

PhD in Neuroscience. Medical University Innsbruck, Institute for Neuroscience, Innrain 66, Innsbruck, Austria.
Research projects: 
1) Expression of early developmental markers predicts the efficiency of dopaminergic differentiation from embryonic stem cells.
2) Pharmacological modulation of the hedgehog pathway differentially affects dorsal/ventral patterning in mouse and human embryonic stem cell models of telencephalic development.
3) Cell Fate Analysis of Ventral Mesencephalic Derived Grafts in the 6-OHDA Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease.
 

Diplom Master in Biology and Health Sciences. University of Poitiers, department of Physiology – Molecular and cellular Biology, Poitiers, France.

Bachelor in Animal Biology. Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences III, Tripoli - Lebanon.

Funded Scientific Projects

Prinicipal Investigator (PI); SeedplusMED LIT grant. Patient-derived and Aged retinal organoids as in vitro models for organic prosthesis (PROMO)

Principal Inestigator (PI); Impetus grant JKU Medizinische Fakultät. Patient-derived Retino-cortical Assembloids as in vitro model system of Retinal Dystrophy (RECO)

Co-author. International Project between Luxemburg National Research Fund (FNR) and Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF). FWF-INTER - INTER/FWF/19/14117540/PDage.

Selected Publications

  1. Cetkovic A, Bellapianta A, Irimia-Vladu M, Hofinger J, Yumusak C, Corna A, Scharber MC, Zeck G, Sariciftci NS, Bolz M, Salti A. In Vitro Cytotoxicity of D18 and Y6 as Potential Organic Photovoltaic Materials for Retinal Prostheses. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Aug 4;23(15):8666.. PMID: 35955800; PMCID: PMC9369111. DOI: 10.3390/ijms23158666, opens an external URL in a new window

  2. Bellapianta A, Cetkovic A, Bolz M, Salti A. Retinal Organoids and Retinal Prostheses: An Overview. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Mar 8;23(6):2922.. PMID: 35328339; PMCID: PMC8953078. DOI: 10.3390/ijms23062922, opens an external URL in a new window

  3. Salti A, Etemad S, Cubero MS, Albertini E, Kovacs-Szalka B, Holzknecht M, Cappuccio E, Cavinato M, Edenhofer F, Jansen Dürr P. High Glycolytic Activity Enhances Stem Cell Reprogramming of Fahd1-KO Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts. Cells. 2021 Aug 10;10(8):2040.. PMID: 34440809; PMCID: PMC8392800. DOI: 10.3390/cells10082040, opens an external URL in a new window

  4. Vukasin Jovanovic*, Ahmad Salti*, Hadas Tilleman, Ksenija Zega, Marin Jukic, Hongyan Zou, Roland Friedel, Nilima Prakash, Sandra Blaess, Frank Edenhofer, and Claude Brodski (2018) BMP/SMAD pathway promotes neurogenesis of midbrain dopaminergic neurons in vivo and in human induced pluripotent and neural stem cells. J Neurosci., opens an external URL in a new window 2018 Feb 14;38(7):1662-1676. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1540-17.2018, opens an external URL in a new window

  5. A Salti*, R Nat*, S. C Neto, Z Puschban, G Wenning, G Dechant (2013) Expression of early developmental markers predicts the efficiency of dopaminergic differentiation from embryonic stem cells. Stem Cells Dev 22(3):397-411. DOI: 10.1089/scd.2012.0238, opens an external URL in a new window

  6. Ahmad Salti, Galina Apostolova, Kai K Kummer, Cristina Lemos, Georg Dechant, Rana El Rawas (2018). Cocaine paired environment increases SATB2 levels in the rat paraventricular thalamus. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 12, 224. DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00224, opens an external URL in a new window

  7. Cristina Lemos, Ahmad Salti, Inês M. Amaral, Veronica Fontebasso, Nicolas Singewald, Georg Dechant, Alex Hofer, Rana El Rawas (2020). Social interaction reward in rats has anti‐stress effects. Addiction Biology. 2020;e12878. DOI: 10.1111/adb.12878, opens an external URL in a new window

  8. Ahmad Salti, Kai K. Kummer, Chinmaya Sadangi, Georg Dechant, Alois Saria, Rana El Rawas (2015) Social interaction reward decreases p38 activation in the nucleus accumbens shell of rats. Neuropharmacology. 99 (2015):510-516. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2015.08.029, opens an external URL in a new window

  9. R. Nat*, A. Salti*, L. Suciu, S. Ström, G. Dechant (2012) Pharmacological modulation of the hedgehog pathway differentially affects dorsal/ventral patterning in mouse and human embryonic stem cell models of telencephalic development. Stem Cells Dev. 21(7):1016-46. DOI: 10.1089/scd.2011.0271, opens an external URL in a new window

  10. S C. Neto*, A Salti*, Z Puschban, N Stefanova, R Nat, G Dechant*, G Wenning* (2012). Cell Fate Analysis of Embryonal Ventral Mesencephalic Grafts in the 6-OHDA Model of Parkinson`s Disease. PLoS One., opens an external URL in a new window7(11):e50178. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050178, opens an external URL in a new window

    * Contributed equally

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