ASSCR ANNUAL MEETING 2025
Thank you to all speakers and poster presenters for their inspiring contributions!
We hope to see you all again in 2026
Goals
Stem cell research is one of the most promising areas of biomedical research – it is revolutionising basic research and offers immense opportunities for the development of novel therapeutic approaches.
The Austrian Society for Stem Cell Research will accompany and support the rapid progress in stem cell research in a national context and has set itself the following goals:
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Stem cell research is a key determinant for the sustainable development of the
Austrian knowledge society and the country's future economic performance.
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Creating a platform for public relations
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National and international networking and promoting young talent
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Improving the funding and research structure
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Beratungsgremium
Marius Wernig
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Executive Committee
Dirk Strunk
Prof. Dirk Strunk is Head of the Institute for Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy at Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg (PMU) and Director of Research and Development at Austrian Red Cross Research GmbH in Vienna (ÖRK).
Over the past 20 years, Dirk Strunk has specialised in stem cell transplantation and cell therapy and conducted research in these fields.
Nicole Amberg
Nicole Amberg is a neuroscientist at IST Austria.
She is committed to gender equality in science and founded the STEM fatale initiative.
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She also teaches children about scientific concepts through her organisation 'Wissen schafft’s' (Knowledge Creates).
Markus Hengstschläger
Head of the Center
for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics
Head of the Institute of Medical Genetics
Medical University of Vienna
Research interests: pluripotent stem cells, amniotic fluid stem cells, reproductive genetics, embryoid bodies, development of new therapeutic approaches for human genetic diseases.
Jürgen Knoblich
Interim Director of the Institute of
Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Vienna​
Head of the Department of Brain Development
and Disease​
Research interests: Neural stem cells, brain organoids, cancer
Elly Tanaka
Frank Edenhofer
Senior Scientist at the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna
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Head of the Department of Molecular Mechanisms
of Vertebrate Regeneration
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Research interests: Regenerative biology
Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology
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Head of the Department of Genomics,
Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck & CMBI
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Research interests: Cell reprogramming, neural regeneration and cell therapy
Founding Members
Peter Valent
Johann Bauer
Georg Dechant
Medical University Vienna
Paracelsus Medical Private University Salzburg
Medical University Innsbruck
Advisory Board
Franziska Michor
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University USA
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Research interests: Evolutionary dynamics of
cancer development, response to therapy, and development of resistance
Marius Wernig
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Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Stanford University USA
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Research interests: Cell reprogramming, neural mouse stem cells, alternative treatment strategies for glioblastoma
Konrad Hochedlinger
Department of Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard University, USA
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Research interests: Role of stem cells
in development and disease onset
Contact
asscr.at
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Stammzellforschung
c/o Zentrum für Pathobiochemie und Genetik
Institut für Medizinische Genetik
Medizinische Universität Wien
Währinger Straße 10
1090 Wien, Österreich
Telefon: +43 1 40160 56501
E-Mail: info@asscr.at (Fr. DI Christina Ludwig)