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The RESPImmun Faculty
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Katharina LEITHNER, MD, PhDGluconeogenesis in tumor-promoting macrophages |
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Division of Pumonology, Department of Internal Medicine; Medical University of Graz,
Auenbruggerplatz 15, A-8036 Graz;
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| websites: [RESPImmun] [MUG] | |
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| ORCID-ID: | 0000-0002-8252-9279 |
| Research areas: | |
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| Cancer biology, metabolism, lung cancer, hypoxia | |
| Career history: | |
| 2017 | Habilitation (“venia docendi”) in theoretical and experimental pneumology |
| 2016 | Guest researcher at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Hypoxia and Angiogenesis Group, PI: Adrian L. Harris, University of Oxford, UK |
| 2015–present | University assistant at the Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Austria |
| 2014 / 2015 | Post-doc (part-time) at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria |
| 2010–2014 | PhD Thesis (Molecular Medicine) at the Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Cell Laboratory, Medical University of Graz, Austria (supervisor: Horst Olschewski) |
| 2006–2010 | Research assistant at the Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Cell Laboratory, Medical University of Graz, Austria |
| 2004–2006 | Internship (50 %) at the Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, and at the Division of Pulmonology and Allergic Disease, Paediatric Department, Medical University of Graz, Austria |
| 2000–2004 | Research visits at the Department of Vascular Biology and Thrombosis Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria and parental leave |
| 1998–2000 | M.D. Thesis at the Department of Vascular Biology and Thrombosis Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria (supervisor: Bernd Binder) |
| 1994–2000 | Study at the Medical University of Vienna (former Medical Faculty, University of Vienna), Austria |
| Major honours and awards (5 most important): | |
| 2017 | Best Oral Presentation Award, Austrian Proteomics and Metabolomics Research Symposium |
| 2014 | Thesis prize (3rd best dissertation) of the Medical University of Graz |
| 2011 | 2nd poster prize at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Pneumology (ÖGP) |
| 2011 | Poster Prize at the Doctoral Day of the Medical University of Graz |
| 2008 | The European Respiratory Society Thoracic Oncology Award 2008 (Best Poster Abstract) |
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Sarah M. Fendt, VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium Adrian L. Harris, University of Oxford, UK Ralph J. DeBerardinis, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA Cristina Muñoz Pinedo, IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain |
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