Short curriculum vitae

Elke Griesmaier, M.D, Head of the neonatal neuroscience group Innsbruck is a fellow in training at the Department of Paediatrics at the University Hospital Innsbruck. Her main interest is neonatology. In June 2008 she took over control of the neonatal neuroscience experimental group Innsbruck.

Elke Griesmaier studied medicine at the Medical University Innsbruck. She has been working in the neonatal neuroscience group from the early beginning, performing her doctoral thesis about the effect of erythropoietin on excitotoxic brain injury in neonatal mice. She finished her medical studies in 2006 and started her PhD studies (Curriculum Neuroscience). Her doctoral thesis investigates stem cell application in perinatal brain injury. In February 2006 she started to work as scientific coworker in a project about thermal and water balance in preterm infants. In June 2007 started her training in pediatrics at the Department of Neonatology in Innsbruck.
Her clinical main interest is focussed on perinatal brain injury in the term neonate (perinatal asphyxia/hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and neonatal stroke) as well as preterm brain injury (periventricular leukomalacia, encephalopathy of prematurity).

Current research projects

• Potential neuroprotective and neuroregenerative strategies in perinatal brain injury
• Monitoring of electrocortical activity in preterm infants by use of amplitude integrated EEG
• Neurodevelopmental outcome after perinatal asphyxia
• Stem cell stimulation in perinatal brain injury
• Haematopoietic stem cells in perinatal brain damage.
• Development of a water-impermeable space suit for newborn infants.