Science Breakfast
As part of the BioTechMed-Graz Science Breakfasts, guest lectures are given on current scientific and socially relevant topics. The event always takes place on the first Wednesday of the month at the University of Graz.
Next Event:
Speaker: Dr. Vanja Nagy, Program Director of DanubeNeuro at CEBINA
Date: Wednesday, 04.11.2026, 08:30 a.m.
Location: University of Graz, Universitätsstraße 15, RESOWI, SZ 15.21
Topic: “Beyond the Discovery: What Does It Take to Translate Neuroscience into New Medicines?”
About the speaker:
Dr. Vanja Nagy is a neuroscientist and biotechnology leader with more than 20 years of experience in neuroscience, disease mechanisms and translational drug development. She is currently Program Director of DanubeNeuro at CEBINA, where she leads the scientific evaluation and development of academic discoveries with therapeutic potential in neurodegenerative diseases. Previously, she was a founding member and Principal Investigator at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases (LBI-RUD), and concurrently a Principal Investigator at the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Vienna and Adjunct Principal Investigator at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
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