News

  • October 2024 It is great pleasure to welcome Nuša Matjašec as new PhD student in the working group Biophysical Toxicology for a joint supervised project with Prof. Christian Schröder (Department of Computational Biological Chemistry).
  • September 2024 DosChem Retreat: sparkling science at the annual meeting of the doctoral school of the Faculty of Chemistry. Max was awarded with one of the Poster Prizes! Fantastic Job!!!! Thanks to the organizing committee for putting together such an entertaining and cutting-edge program!
  • September 2024 EUROTOX 2024 in Copenhagen was not only 360-degrees great science around Toxicology, but also special memories for the working group Biophysical Toxicology:  Max was awarded with the Poster Prize for the Speciality Session Carcinogenesis! Congratulations for this milestone!

  • August 2024 After many papers published together, congratulations to Claudia and Mariam for completing the PhD with a fantastic defense! It was a great pleasure having you as “regular guests” in our Labs and we wish you all the best for your career!!!

  • July 2024 Outstanding presentation of Janice Bergen at the conference of Biophysics Austria in Salzburg! Congratulations for the great job and for the Travel Grant!
  • June 2024 Congratulations to Janice Bergen for being awarded the „ASTOX Young Investigator Educational Enhancement Travel Award“ 2024! Fantastic opportunity to join to 22 nd International Congress of the European Society of Toxicology In Vitro – ESTIV in Prague!

  • January 2024 Three among the ten most nominated teachers for the Best-Teaching Award 2023 at the Faculty of Chemistry (Preis für gute Lehre 2023; category Master) are affiliated to the LMC-Department:
    Prof. Doris Marko, Ass. Prof. Giorgia Del Favero and Dr. Joel Walker were selected by our students and made it to the shortlist!
  • November 2023 Congratulations to Janice Bergen and Claudia Iriarte Mesa for winning the DoSChem New Ideas Award!! Project title: "Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity of Coenzyme Q10 delivered from liposome coated-mesoporous silica: novel hybrid nanoformulations towards the treatment of ulcerative colitis"
    For more infos check out here!
  • July 2023 It is our pleasure to welcome Valerie Rebhahn, visiting PhD student from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), who has joined our group at the Core Facility of Multimodal Imaging for a month. Valerie´s research project is focusing on the elucidation of the mode-of-action of aetokthonotoxin in intestinal epithelial cells. We are looking forward to the scientific results of this exciting collaboration!
  • January 2023 Congratulations to Jakob Schwarz and Livia Gruber for successfully defending their Master Theses: 
    • Jakob Schwarz: Manipulating the mechanosensory apparatus of melanoma cells: an integrated morphoometric and proteomic approach
    • Livia Gruber: Shock absorbing capacity of the endoplasmic reticulum