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ASciNA Mentoring Program

Mentoring Program

The ASciNA Mentoring Program (AMP) is generously supported by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna, the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), the Medical University of Innsbruck, the University of Vienna, and the Medical University of Graz.

This program seeks to develop a mentoring framework, where established Austrian scientists/scholars and professionals provide guidance, experience and knowledge to early career researchers from Austria.

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MENTORING PROGRAM 2023/2024

The mentoring pairs sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna, are:

  • Mentee Lukas Altenburger, Massachusetts General Hospital/Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases – Mentorin Beate Lanske, Harvard School of Dental Medicine/Radius Health Inc.
  • Mentee Christoph Wippel, Harvard Medical School/Department of Biomedical Informatics – Mentor Jochen Raimann, Director at Renal Resarch institute

The mentoring pairs sponsored by the Technische Universität Wien are:

  • Mentee Ayse Koyun, Harvard University/Environmental Science and Engineering – Mentor Dr. Ramin Hasani, MIT
  • Mentee Stefan Weber, Caltech/Chemistry and Chemical Engineering– Mentor Prof. Dirk Trauner, University of Pennsylvania
  • Mentee Matthäus Siebenhofer, MIT/Nuclear Science and Engineering – Mentor Prof. Peter Hosemann, Berkeley

The mentoring pairs sponsored by the Medical University of Innsbruck are:

  • Mentee Felix Nägele, PostDoc at Houston Methodist Research Institute/Center for Cardiovascular Regeneration – Mentor Harald Ott, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
  • Mentee Simon Hoser, UCSF/Biochemistry and Biophysics – Mentor Astrid Desiree Haase, NIH/NIDDK

The mentoring pair sponsored by the Medical University of Graz is:

  • Mentee Katarina Zeder, Harvard Medical School/Pulmonology – Mentorin Sitra Tauscher-Wisniewski, Novartis

The mentoring pair sponsored by the TU Graz is:

  • Mentee Christina Graf, UBC MRI Research Center/Department of Pediatrics – Mentor Stefan Steinerberger, Math Department at the University of Washington, Seattle

The mentoring pairs sponsored by the University of Vienna are:

  • Mentee Sabina Cveček, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago – Mentor Prof. Walter Scheidel, Stanford University
  • Mentee Henry Fabian Thomas, PostDoc at NYU Langone Health/Institute of System Genetics – Mentor Prof. Marius Wernig, Stanford University

MENTORING PROGRAM 2022/23

The mentoring pairs sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna, are:

  • Mentee Lisa Gabler (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) – Mentor Martin Breuss (University of Colorado)
  • Mentee Alexandra Christ (Massachusetts General Hospital Boston) – Mentor Jelena Todoric (Merck)

The mentoring pairs sponsored by the Technische Universität Wien are:

  • Mentee Gabriel Grill (University of Michigan) – Mentor Hannes Pessentheiner (QualComm)
  • Mentee Markus Hecher (MIT) – Mentor Florian Lonsing (Stanford University)
  • Mentee Johannes Kalliauer (MIT) – Mentor Florian Meyer (UC San Diego)

The mentoring pairs sponsored by the Medical University of Graz are:

  • Mentee Konstantin Klötzer (Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania) – Mentor Wolfgang Junger (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School)
  • Mentee Victoria Zyulina – Mentor Reinhard Hinterleitner (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Mentee Lavinia Rech (Boston Children’s Hospital) – Mentor Karin Hochrainer (Weill Cornell Medicine)

The mentoring pair sponsored by the University of Vienna is:

  • Mentee Matthias Gerstgrasser (Harvard University) – Mentor Gerhard Eschelbeck (Kodiak Robotics)

MENTORING PROGRAM 2021/22

The mentoring pairs for 2021/2022, sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna, are:

  • Mentee Konstantin Krychtiuk (Duke University/Duke Clinical Research Institute) – Mentor Fritz Wieser (formerly Emory University)
  • Mentee Tobias Zrzavy (University of Pennsylvania) – Mentor Sonja Scholz (NIH)

The mentoring pair sponsored by the Technische Universität Wien is:

  • Mentee Verena Geppert-Kleinrath (Los Alamos National Laboratory) – Mentor Josef Koller (The Aerospace Corporation)

The mentoring pair sponsored by the Medical University of Innsbruck is:

  • Mentee Valentina Sladky (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) – Mentor Bettina Mittendorfer (Washington University School of Medicine)

The mentoring pair sponsored by the Technical University of Graz is:

  • Mentee Ralf Meyer (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) – Mentor Christian Linder (Stanford University)

More ASciNA mentoring pairs are:

  • Mentee Denis Teoman – Mentor Sonja Schmid (both Virginia Tech)
  • Mentee Katharina Fellnhofer (Harvard University) – Mentor Sebastian Linnemayr (Rand Corporation)
  • Mentee Matthias Gerstgrasser (Harvard University) – Mentor Gerhard Eschelbeck (Aurora)

MENTORING PROGRAM 2020/21:

The mentoring pairs sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna are:

  • Mentee Julia Brunner, Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center – Mentorin Sandra Haudek, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Mentee Alexander Lercher, Rockefeller University – Mentorin Marlies Meisel, University of Pittsburgh

The mentoring pairs sponsored by the TU Graz are:

  • Mentee Caroline Moosmüller, University of California San Diego – Mentor Christof Sparber, University of Chicago
  • Mentee Dominik Awad, University of Texas – Mentorin Katja Pinker-Domenig, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

More ASciNA mentoring pairs are:

  • Mentee Thomas Pomberger, Duke University – Mentor Johannes Frasnelli, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière
  • Mentee Andreas Lichtenberger, New School for Social Research – Mentor Florian Ederer, Yale University

MENTORING PROGRAM 2019/20:

  • Mentee Livia Tomova, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Mentorin Simone Angela Winkler, Weill Cornell Medicine

The mentoring pair sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna is:

  • Mentee Fiorella Schischlik, National Cancer Institute – Mentor Daniel Schramek, Lunenfeld- Tanenbaum Research Institute

The mentoring pair sponsored by the Medical University of Innsbruck is:

  • Franka Messner, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – Mentorin Lisa Gfrerer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

The mentoring pair sponsored by TU Graz is:

  • Mentee Nikolaus Hammler, Stanford University – Mentor Alexander Lex, University of Utah

The three mentoring pairs sponsored by TU Wien are:

  • Mentee Thomas Bayer, Albert Einstein College – Mentor Peter Kaiser, UC Irvine
  • Mentee Dennis Svatunek, UCLA – Mentor Sebastian Trousil
  • Mentee Andreas Wartak, Harvard University – Mentor Alexander Rauscher, UBC

MENTORING PROGRAM 2018/19:

The three mentoring pairs sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna are:

  • Mentee Stephan Salzmann, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine – Mentor Christoph Hofstetter, UW Medicine
  • Mentee Thomas Zelniker, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School – Mentor Gerd Brunner, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Mentee Christoph Kraus, National Institute of Health – Robert Schwarcz, University of Maryland, School of Medicine

The mentoring pair sponsored by TU Graz is:

  • Mentee Vera Novy, University of British Columbia – Mentor Martin Polz , MIT

The three mentoring pairs sponsored by TU Wien are:

  • Mentee Paul Werginz, Harvard Medical School/MGH – Mentor Jana Kainerstorfer, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Mentee Monika Pichler, Northeastern University – Mentor Chris Marx, Oberlin College
  • Mentee Nikolin Oberleitner, UC Berkeley – Mentor Clemens Dürrschmid, Case Western University

MENTORING PROGRAM 2017/18:

The two mentoring pairs sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna are:

  • Mentee Sabine Heitzeneder, Stanford University – Mentor Gerlinde Wernig, Stanford University
  • Mentee Johannes Kovarik, Vanderbilt University – Mentor Wolfgang Winkelmeyer, Baylor College of Medicine

The mentoring pair sponsored by the TU Graz is:

  • Mentee Anita Emmerstorfer-Augustin, UC Berkeley – Mentor Wolfgang Peti, University of Arizona

The three mentoring pairs sponsored by TU Wien are:

  • Mentee Magdalena Klemun, MIT – Mentor Friedrich Prinz, Stanford University
  • Mentee Michael Fink, Harvard University – Mentor Christoph Haselwandter, USC Dornsife
  • Mentee Arnold Päcklar, Colorado State University – Mentor Peter Hosemann, UC Berkeley

MENTORING PROGRAM 2016/17:

The mentoring pair sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna is:

  • Mentee Lukas Landegger, Boston at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School – Mentor Oliver Adunka, Ohio State University

The mentoring pair sponsored by TU Graz is:

  • Mentee Benjamin Marussig, University of Texas at Austin – Mentor Christian Linder, Stanford University

MENTORING PROGRAM 2015/16:

The three mentoring pairs sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna are:

  • Mentee Julia Wilflingseder, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School – Mentor Harald Ott, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  • Mentee Patrick Brunner, Rockefeller University – Mentor Dietrich Haubenberger, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  • Mentee Gregor Werba, NYU Langone Medical Center – Mentor Mariella Gruber-Filbin, Boston Children’s Hospital und Dana-Farber Cancer Center

The mentoring pair sponsored by TU Graz is:

  • Mentee Birgit Ploier, Weill Medical College of Cornell University – Mentor Martin Hetzer, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

MENTORING PROGRAM 2014/15:

The two mentoring pairs sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna are:

  • Mentee Hanna Knaus, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – Mentor Mariella Gruber Filbin, Boston Children’s Hospital und Dana-Farber Cancer Center
  • Mentee Michaela Gruber, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute – Mentor Konrad Hochedlinger, Harvard University

The mentoring pair sponsored by TU Graz is:

  • Mentee Florian Lackner, UC Berkeley – Mentor Thomas Brabec, University of Ottawa

MENTORING PROGRAM 2013/14:

The two mentoring pairs sponsored by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna are:

  • Mentee Hermann Agis, University of Michigan School of Dentistry – Mentor Beate Lanske, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Mentee Georg Furtmüller, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – Mentor Georg Wieselthaler, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

The mentoring pair sponsered by TU Graz is:

  • Mentee Patricia Bubner, UC Berkeley – Mentor Martin Polz, MIT

MENTORING PROGRAM 2012/13:

  • Mentee Lisa Gfrerer, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School – Mentor Gerald Brandacher, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore
  • Mentee Jelena Todoric, University California San Diego -Mentor Eva Schernhammer, Harvard Medical School

More ASciNA Mentoring Pairs 2012/2013:

  • Mentee Oliver Hauser, Harvard University, Cambridge – Mentor Günter Wagner, Yale University, New Haven
  • Mentee Iris K. Gratz, University of California, San Francisco – Mentor Jörg Fritz, McGill University, Montreal
  • Mentee Stefan Schaller, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge – Mentor Peter Nagele, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis 

MENTORING PROGRAM 2011/12:

  • Mentee Alessandra Handisurya, National Institutes of Health – Mentor Edda Fiebiger, Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School
  • Mentee David Stelzeneder, Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School – Mentor Alexander Rauscher, University of British Columbia, Canada
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