The City of Salzburg honors remarkable achievements in the fields of art & culture and science & research with the Kulturfondspreis (Culture Fund Awards). This year, the award for science and research goes to Cluster member Prof. Andreas Traweger.
MatureTissue received FWF funding via the doc.funds.connect program, which is awarded to universities of applied sciences and universities if they join forces to develop an outstanding doctoral program.
Bachmann develops organ-on-a-chip systems to apply mechanical stimuli to cells. Her research has resulted in several patents and the formation of a company. To honor her work, she was awarded the Life Science PhD Award in the category applied research.
For the first time in Austria, scientists took the stage in the (virtual) bar next door. Among them were Susanne Wolbank, co-director of LBI Trauma and Gregor Weisgrab from Aleksandr Ovsianikov’s team at TU Vienna.
On April 15 at 4:05 pm, Cluster members Susanne Wolbank, Stefan Nehrer and Francesco Moscato will be on air on Radiodoktor, a broadcast on the Austrian radio channel Ö1.
"Welcome to the Cluster.
Our objective is to better understand musculo-skeletal tissue regeneration to improve diagnostics and therapeutic measures in an entirely interdisciplinary and translational approach."
Heinz Redl,
Cluster Coordinator
Christian Hellmich
Head of Board
from trauma to tissue regeneration...
from molecules to clinics...
Regeneration after trauma or injury is a fascinating and complex process. Some species are more capable of regenerating different body parts, tissues or organs while others possess only very limited regenerative abilities. Hydra for example, a freshwater polyp, can regenerate its entire body. Polyps are the early stage of what is commonly known as a jellyfish. After injuries, Hydra can rearrange its existing tissue which leads to a full regeneration of the lost parts.
We humans in contrast can only dream about regenerating whole body parts. Tissues or organs can to a certain extend be regenerated, but mammals and thus humans have bad regenerative capabilities compared to other animal groups. What is biologically possible and what can be supported by engineered materials is part of many research projects all over the world.
