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.
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

Linda Waldherr: ELPHI: Bioelectronic implants for controllable chemoimmunotherapy

Young Researcher Groups 2022 {f:if(condition: 'Helmut Lunghammer', then: '©Helmut Lunghammer')} — Young Researcher Groups 2022 with BioTechMed-Graz Board of Directors

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 Cardiomyophathy

Natalia Zaretskaya: Neural mechanisms of subjective visual experience

Young Researcher Group PIs Anita Emmerstorfer-Augustin, Senka Holzer, Natalia Zaretskaya {f:if(condition: 'Uni Graz/Leljak', then: '©Uni Graz/Leljak')} — Young Researcher Group PIs Anita Emmerstorfer-Augustin, Senka Holzer, Natalia Zaretskaya