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The Doctoral Programme
“Immune Modulation in Respiratory Diseases”
(RESPImmun)
Areas and Projects
Area 1: Chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma
- Project 1: Endotyping of chronic rhinosinusitis according to nasal mucus proteomic profile
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Principle Investigator: Peter Valentin Tomazic, Co-PI: Valentina Biasin - Project 2: The role of the microbiome in chronic rhinosinusitis and sinubronchial syndrome
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Principle Investigator: Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Co-PI: Vasile Foris - Project 3: Short chain fatty acids and pulmonary endothelial function
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Principle Investigator: Ákos Heinemann, Co-PI: Thomas Bärnthaler - Project 4: Lysophosphatidylcholines and eosinophil function
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Principle Investigator: Gunther Marsche, Co-PI: Katharina Jandl - Project 5: The role of
JAK / STAT signaling in allergic asthma
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Principle Investigator: Eva Böhm, Co-PI: Philipp Douschan
Area 2: Pulmonary hypertension due to chronic lung diseases
- Project 6: Compartment-specific immunophenotyping in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Principle Investigator: Leigh Marsh, Co-PI: Alexander Avian - Project 7: Characterization of the vascular phenotype in COPD: are there gender differences?
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Principle Investigator: Horst Olschewski, Co-PI: Slaven Crnković - Project 8: Interplay between inflammatory cells and basement membrane components in the development of pulmonary hypertension due to chronic lung diseases
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Principle Investigator: Grażyna Kwapiszewska, Co-PI: Gábor Kovács - Project 9: The chloride channel regulator CLCA1 and the calcium-activated chloride channel TMEM16A in lung fibrosis
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Principle Investigator: Andrea Olschewski, Co-PI: Chandran Nagaraj
Area 3: Lung cancer
- Project 10: Gluconeogenesis in tumor-promoting macrophages
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Principle Investigator: Katharina Leithner, Co-PI: Jörg Lindenmann - Project 11: LipoIMMUNE, Impact of monoglyceride lipase on the tumor microenvironment
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Principle Investigator: Gerald Höfler, Co-PI: Paul Vesely - Project 12: Role of TGF-β ligand signaling in dendritic cell (DC)-dependent immunoregulation in lung cancer
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Principle Investigator: Herbert Strobl, Co-PI: Anna Birnhuber - Project 13: The role of neutrophil-derived myeloperoxidase in non-small cell lung cancer metastasis
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Principle Investigator: Julia Kargl, Co-PI: Luka Brčić