Die Arbeitsgruppe Neonatale Neurowissenschaften der Abteilung Pädiatrie IV, Univ. Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde Innsbruck stellt sich vor.

The "Tiroler Wissenschaftsfonds - TWF" awards Elke Griesmaier a grant for her work on new strategies for neonatal brain protection.

Anna Posod has recently been selected for a Max Kade scholarship and she is currently staying in New York City to attend a 4-week training period at the the Department of Emergency Medicine at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center.

Anna Posod erhält einen der 4 Studienpreise die im Rahmen des Allgemeinen Hochschulstipendiums der Universitäten in Innsbruck vergeben wurden.

Miriam Bachmann receives a scholarship from the Medical University Innsbruck and continues her research in neonatal neurophysiology.

On June 26th, at the Villa Blanka Innsbruck, the 2009 awards of the German Friends of the Universities in Innsbruck were awarded. The winner of the Medical University is the student Anna Posod, who works in the Neonatal Neuroscience Research Group.

This year Dr. Karina Wegleiter is the award recipient of the the Wilhelm-Auerswald-Prize (first prize and the award for the best written work). The prize is donated yearly by the sanofi-aventis GmbH for the best doctoral thesis in human medicine in Austria.

The Medical University Innsbruck supports Karina Wegleiter, young investigator of the Neonatal Neuroscience Research group Innsbruck for the next 6 months.

The "Medizinischer Forschungsfonds Tirol" gives a grant to the laboratory of neonatal neuroscience for the project:

Dextromethorphan: an "old" drug to protect the newborn against brain injury?

Evaluation of cerebral function monitoring as diagnostic instrument to determine the maturation state and damage of the brain in preterms.

Foreign scholarship to Dr. Elke Griesmaier by the Medical University Innsbruck 2008.

Mehr und mehr zu früh geborene kleine Menschen überleben ihren zu frühen Start in das Leben. Dies ist möglich durch wesentliche Verbesserung der Medizin. Die Anzahl der überlebenden zu kleinen Kinder nimmt zu. Aber trotz der Verbesserung der Medizin gibt es noch ungelöste Probleme. Die Forschung zum Schutz des neugeborenen Gehirns ist damit eine der größten Herausforderungen in der Kinderheilkunde.

New study of the Innsbruck research group with Dr. Matthias Keller, the EU reserach consortium neobrain and EFCNI shows the financial burden of parents of preterm born infants.

588 parents in the German-speeking part and Tyrol have been questioned between september 2007 and march 2008. (Article in german)

neo.nEURO.network was an international multicenter study. This study group analysed the effect of induced systemic hypothermia in asphyxiated newborn infants.

Published in Pediatrics 2010

On the 24th of aprile the Theodor Körner Price was awarded by the Federal President of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer. Among the laureates was Elke Griesmaier, member of the Neonatal Neuroscience Research Group Innsbruck (Supervisor: Prof. George Simbruner).