Young Researcher Groups
The objective of the “Young Researcher Group (YRG)” program of BioTechMed-Graz is to support the efforts of the most exceptional and promising postdoctoral fellows within BioTechMed Graz to launch an independent research group. The program thus aims to bridge a common career gap between the postdoctoral stage and scientific independence. Successful YRG PIs are expected to become competitive candidates for national and international tenure track positions in academia. The program should also enable YRG PIs to acquire additional competitive research grants.
Call 2025
Submissions for the Young Researcher Group call were possible until May 30, 2025, 12:00 noon. The call is now closed.
Applicants will receive feedback on the written evaluation of their application on October 10, 2025. The public hearing for the call will take place on November 18, 2025, at the Meerscheinschlössl at the University of Graz.
Further information and the call guidelines can be found here.
Funded projects
Young Researcher Groups 2022
- Mahmoud Abdellatif: Therapeutic approaches for the regulation of mitochondria and autophagy in heart failure
- Elias Karabelas: Computational Inference of Pressure Fields from Non-Invasively Measured Flow Patterns
- Daniel Kracher: Infection-related Redox Systems in Pathogenic Bacteria
- Horst Lechner: Active site transfer to generate new enzymes
Young Researcher Groups 2019
- Anita Emmerstorfer-Augustin: How membrane lipids cross-talk with the cell wall: A study using sterol modified Pichia pastoris
- Senka Holzer: Targeting Excitation-Transcription Coupling for Managing Hypertensive Cardiomyopathy
- Natalia Zaretskaya: Neural mechanisms of subjective visual experience
