Andreas Traweger from PMU Salzburg, together with Minghao Zheng from The University of Western Australia and Jiang Qin at Nanjing University, helped identify the genetic marker in a large-scale project, now published in Science Translational Medicine.
The European Researchers’ Night is a mega-event that takes place every year in many European cities. Don’t miss out on Cluster members presenting their research on the online stage!
Cluster members Stefan Baudis from TU Vienna and associate member Lithoz are featured in a TV report produced by Austrian TV channel Puls4.
The Rudolf Sallinger Fund awards early-stage commercialization ideas based on state-of-the-art research with the S&B Award. With his Start-Up company The Human Touch, Johannes Hackethal made it among the top 10.
With their novel Parkinson-on-a-Chip model, the group of Cluster member Peter Ertl from TU Vienna received the prestigious Houska Award. The chip allows scientists to develop personalized treatment options for each patient.
"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.
