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- Grants and financial support of the Neonatal Neuroscience Group Innsbruck
- 2. Posterpreis für Diplomanden der ÖGKJ
- Prize for outstanding study achievements for Anna Posod
- Wilhelm-Auerswald-Prize 2009 awarded to Dr. Karina Wegleiter
- Medical University Innsbruck supports young investigator
- Research grant for Neonatal Neuroscience
- Foreign scholarship Medical University Innsbruck 2008
- Prize for best experimental work 2007
- Theodor Körner Prize 2006
- Miriam Bachmann receives a scholarship from the Medical University Innsbruck
Wilhelm-Auerswald-Prize 2009 awarded to Dr. Karina Wegleiter
On 17th of June 2009 the Wilhelm-Auerswald-Prize was awarded for the best doctoral thesis written at a Medical University in Austria in 2008. The laureate is ascertained by a jury in cooperation with the society of Doctor’s association of Vienna, chair Prof. Dr. H. Sinzinger. Priced is the overall dissertation, the best written work and the best oral recitation.
This year the first prize and the prize for the best written work were awarded to Karina Wegleiter. In her thesis she was evaluating the neuroregenerative effect of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), stem cell factor (SCF) and flt3 ligand (FL) in the neonatal brain after hypoxic-ischemic injury. Therefore K. Wegleiter established the hypoxic-ischemic brain injury animal model (Rice and Vannucci, 1981) in the laboratory of neonatal neuroscience. Thus she was concentrating on the effect of stem cell mobilisation on histological, immunohistochemical and functional long term outcome (neuromotor function, activity, cognition). An explicit effect could not be shown; nevertheless results imply enhanced cell proliferation in brain areas responsible for memory and learning. Further studies in a moderate injury model mainly concentrating on underlying mechanisms are being accomplished.
Karina Wegleiter has been working in the Neonatal Neuroscience group since 2006. After her graduation in human medicine in 2008 she received a scientific scholarship from the Medical University Innsbruck. Currently she is continuing her studies on G-CSF/SCF and FL and is working on the effect of Dextromethorphan (DM) in neonatal brain damage. She is well trained in animal experimentation including behavioural tests, immuno-histochemical analysis and molecular analysis ( qPCR). K. Wegleiter is a highly motivated coworker with extraordinary interest in neonatal neuroscience and neonatology.
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