Aktuelle Position
Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Zelluläre and Molekulare Ophthalmologie; Universitätsklinik für Augenheilkunde und Optometrie; Medizinische Fakultät; Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Österreich
Assistant Prof. Tenure Track Stelle; Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Österreich
Postdoc-Training
Postdoc; Universität Innsbruck, Depart. of Genomics, stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, Innsbruck, Österreich.
Forschungsprojekte:
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.
Forschungsprojekt: Cellular and Molecular analysis of the role of Hoxa5 in the adult brain.
Postdoc; Medizinische Universität Innsbruck; Experimental Psychiatry Unit; Innsbruck; Österreich.
Forschungsprojekt: Neurobiology of Social interaction as an alternative to drugs of abuse.
Akademische Ausbildung
PhD in Neuroscience. Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Institute for Neuroscience, Innrain 66, Innsbruck, Österreich.
Forschungsprojekte:
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.
Geförderte Wissenschaftliche Projekte
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.