Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Regeneration
Research Area: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Cardiac Amyloidosis
Team Leader: Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Diana Bonderman
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: diana.bonderman@meduniwien.ac.at
Projects and Project Leaders:
„Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in Patients after Successful Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Lore Schrutka, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: lore.schrutka@meduniwien.ac.at
„Recurrent Heart Failure Hospitalizations in Patients with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Predictors and Outcome“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Lore Schrutka, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: lore.schrutka@meduniwien.ac.at
„A Machine Learning-Derived Electrocardiographic Algorithm for the Detection of Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Prospective Multicenter Validation Study“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Lore Schrutka, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: lore.schrutka@meduniwien.ac.at
„Safety of Oral Anticoagulants in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Transthyretin-Amyloid-Cardiomyopathy“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Lore Schrutka, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: lore.schrutka@meduniwien.ac.at
„Artificial Intelligence for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. René Rettl
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: rene.rettl@meduniwien.ac.at
Research Area: Remodeling and Reverse Remodeling
Team Leader: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bruno Podesser
Center for Biomedical Research, MedUV
E-Mail: bruno.podesser@meduniwien.ac.at
Projects and Project Leaders:
„Small Diameter Vascular Grafts“
Project Leader: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.med.univ. Dr.med.vet. Helga Bergmeister
Center for Biomedical Research, MedUV
E-Mail: helga.bergmeister@meduniwien.ac.at
„Extracellular Matrix Materials from Human Placenta for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering and Repair“
Project Leader: Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Karl Schneider
Center for Biomedical Research, MedUV
E-Mail: karl.schneider@meduniwien.ac.at
„Cardiovascular Phenotype of the Dmdmdx rat – a Suitable Animal Model for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy“ and „Characterization of Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Chronic TNF-Mediated Experimental Arthritis“
Project Leader: Dr.phil. Attila Kiss
Center for Biomedical Research, MedUV
E-Mail: attila.kiss@meduniwien.ac.at
Research Area: Biomaterials for Cardiovascular Devices & Prostheses
Team Leader: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Heinrich Schima; Assoc.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Francesco Moscato; Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.med.univ. Dr.vet.med. Helga Bergmeister
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering; Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: heinrich.schima@meduniwien.ac.at; francesco.moscato@meduniwien.ac.at; helga-.bergmeister@meduniwien.ac.at
Projects and Project Leaders:
Projects and Project Leaders:
„Nanostructured Biomaterials for Cardiovascular Implants”
Project Leader: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.med.univ. Dr.med.vet. Helga Bergmeister, Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Christian Grasl Ph.D.
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and Center for Biomedical Research, MedUV
E-Mail: helga.bergmeister@meduniwien.ac.at, christian.grasl@meduniwien.ac.at
"Coating of stents"
Project Leaders: a.o.Univ.Prof. DI Dr. Heinrich Schima, Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Christian Grasl Ph.D.
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, MedUV
E-Mail: heinrich.schima@meduniwien.ac.at, christian.grasl@meduniwien.ac.at
„Mechanical Characterization and Tests for Cardiovascular Implants"
Project Leader: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Martin Stoiber
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, MedUV
E-Mail: martin.stoiber@meduniwien.ac.at
Nanomicrostructured surfaces for enhanced hemocompatibility within the "Optiflow3D project"
Project Leaders: Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Francesco Moscato; Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Christian Grasl Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Mag. PhD Barbara Messner
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: francesco.moscato@meduniwien.ac.at, christian.grasl@meduniwien.ac.at, barbara.messner@meduniwien.ac.at
Research Area: Short Term Mechanical Circulatory Support
Team Leaders: Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr. Dominik Wiedemann; Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr. PhD Georg Goliasch; Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr.med.univ. Michael Holzer
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV and Internal Medicine II and Division of Cardiology, MedUV and Department of Emergency Medicine, MedUV
E-Mail: dominik.wiedemann@meduniwien.ac.at; georg.goliasch@meduniwien.ac.at; michael.holzer@meduniwien.ac.at
Project and Project Leaders:
„Interdisciplinary Database for Short Term Mechanical Circulatory Support (ICLS)“
Project Leaders: Dr.med.univ. Anne-Kristin Schäfer; Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr. PhD Klaus Distelmaier; Dr. Michael Poppe; Dr. Ingrid Magnet
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV and Internal Medicine II, Division of Cardiology, MedUV and Department of Emergency Medicine, MedUV
E-Mail: anne-kristin.schaefer@meduniwien.ac.at; klaus.distelmaier@meduniwien.ac.at; michael.poppe@meduniwien.ac.at; ingrid.magnet@meduniwien.ac.at
Research Area: Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
Team Leader: Univ.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Prof. Martin Hülsmann
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: martin.huelsmann@meduniwien.ac.at
Projects and Project Leaders:
„PONTIAC II ( NT-proBNP Selected PreventiOn of cardiac eveNts in a populaTion of dIabetic patients without A history of Cardiac disease: a randomized prospective international multicenter study)“
Project Leader: Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. PhD Noemi Pavo
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: noemi.pavo@meduniwien.ac.at
„Alpin-HF” (Alprostapint in Heart Failure: a Double Blinded Prospective Randomized International Multicenter Study“
Project Leader: Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. PhD Noemi Pavo
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: noemi.pavo@meduniwien.ac.at
„Cardiac Biomarkers in Oncology“
Project Leader: Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. PhD Noemi Pavo
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: noemi.pavo@meduniwien.ac.at
„EKG-Veränderungen und deren Bedeutung für das Überleben von Tumorpatienten“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. PhD Maria Frey
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: maria.frey@meduniwien.ac.at
„Peritoneal Dialysis in End-Stage Heart Failure“
Project Leader: Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. PhD Noemi Pavo
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: noemi.pavo@meduniwien.ac.at
„Neurohumoral Patterns in Heart Failure – an Avenue for Precision Medicine?“
Project Leader: Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. PhD Noemi Pavo
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: noemi.pavo@meduniwien.ac.at
„Neurohumoral Memory in End Stage Heart Failure Patients Undergoing Heart Transplantation or LVAD Implantation“
Project Leader: Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. PhD Noemi Pavo
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: noemi.pavo@meduniwien.ac.at
„The Adipositas Paradox in Patients with Heart Failure and Diabetes“
Project Leader: Bakk.rer.nat. Dr.med.univ. Suriya Prausmüller
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: suriya.prausmueller@meduniwien.ac.at
„Circulating RAS Regulation vs. Myocardial Tissue RAS Regulation in End Stage Heart Failure Patients“
Project Leader: Bakk.rer.nat. Dr.med.univ. Suriya Prausmüller
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: suriya.prausmueller@meduniwien.ac.at
„Neprilysin Regulation in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure (- Awarded for CVC Translational Synergy Grant 2020)“
Project Leader: Bakk.rer.nat. Dr.med.univ. Suriya Prausmüller
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: suriya.prausmueller@meduniwien.ac.at
„Circulating and Imaging Biomarker for a Unified Understanding of Heart Failure“
Project Leader: Bakk.rer.nat. Dr.med.univ. Georg Spinka
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: georg.spinka@meduniwien.ac.at
„Cardiac Specific Effects by SGLT2-Inhibitionin Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction“
Project Leader: Dr.med. Univ. PhD Henrike Arfsten
Dept. of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: henrike.arfsten@meduniwien.ac.at
Research Area: Noncoding RNAs in Cardiovascular Regeneration, Role of Network Medicine
Team Leader: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mariann Pavone-Gyöngyösi
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: mariann.gyongyosi@meduniwien.ac.at
Projects and Project Leaders:
„Comparative Effect of Bone Marrow Derived MSC or MSC Secretome on Hypoxic Cardiomyocytes“
Project Leader: BSc. Nina Kastner
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: nina.kastner@meduniwien.ac.at
„Long Term in Vivo Tracking of PET-Reporter Gene Transfected Xenogeneic Porcine Mesenchymal Stem Cells Seeded on Tissue-Engineered Heart Valve Implanted in Sheep“
Project Leader: MSc. Katrin Zlabinger
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: katrin.zlabinger@meduniwien.ac.at
„Development of an Enhanced CRT Device with Implanted Blood Pressure, Respiration, pH and Gas Pressure Sensors in a Large Animal Model“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Andreas Spannbauer
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: andreas.spannbauer@meduniwien.ac.at
„Inflammation and Stem Cell Markers in Pediatric Implants for Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease“ and „Metabolic-Function Mismatch of Infarcted Myocardium Predicts Worse Long-Term Outcome“
Project Leader: Ena Hašimbegović, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: ena.hasimbegovic@meduniwien.ac.at
„Identifying of Circulating miRNAs Responsible for Acute Myocardial Ischemia-Related Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias in a Translational Study“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Martin Riesenhuber
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: martin.riesenhuber@meduniwien.ac.at
„Deep RNA-Sequencing Identified a Novel Circular RNA, circ-RCAN2 in Pig Hearts with Potential Regulatory Functions in Acute Myocardial infarction“
Project Leader: MSc. Julia Mester-Tonczar
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: julia.mester-tonczar@meduniwien.ac.at
„Differences in Myocardial Fibrosis Phenotypes Based on Disease-Relevant Gene Expression“
Project Leader: Dominika Lukovic, PhD mgr.
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: dominika.lukovic@meduniwien.ac.at
„Analysis of Myocardial Samples and Explanted Materials from the Pediatric Patients with Complex Cardiac Diseases Registry (PETTICOAT)“
Team Leader: Univ.-Prof. Dr.med.univ. Ina Michel-Behnke
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, MedUV
E-Mail: ina.michel-behnke@meduniwien.ac.at
Cooperation partner: Univ. Prof. Dr. Mariann Gyöngyösi
Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, MedUV
E-Mail: mariann.gyongyosi@meduniwien.ac.at
Research Area: Engineering and Outcome Research for Mechanical Circulatory Support
Team Leaders: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Heinrich Schima & Assoc. Prof. DI Dr. Francesco Moscato; Univ. Prof. PD. Dr. Daniel Zimpfer, MBA, FECTS; Assoc.Prof.Dr. Dominik Wiedemann
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, MedUV and Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: heinrich.schima@meduniwien.ac.at; francescso.moscato@meduniwien.ac.at; daniel.zimpfer@meduniwien.ac.at
Projects and Project Leaders:
„VAD (Ventricular Assist Device)-Outcome Research and Early Adverse Event Detection“
Project Leader: MSc. Thomas Schlöglhofer; BSc. Dr.scient.med. MSc. Christoph Gross
Division of Cardiac Surgery; Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, MedUV
E-Mail: thomas.schloeglhofer@meduniwien.ac.at; christoph.gross@meduniwien.ac.at
„Noninvasive Diagnostics of Fully Magnetically Levitated Blood Pumps“
Project Leader: MSc. Thomas Schlöglhofer; BSc. Theodor Abart
Division of Cardiac Surgery; Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, MedUV
E-Mail: thomas.schloeglhofer@meduniwien.ac.at; theodor.abart@meduniwien.ac.at
„Eye-Tracking Supported Simulation and Human Factors Engineering of Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices“
Project Leader: MSc. Thomas Schlöglhofer; BSc. Gregor Widhalm
Division of Cardiac Surgery; Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, MedUV
E-Mail: thomas.schloeglhofer@meduniwien.ac.at; gregor.widhalm@meduniwien.ac.at
„Left Ventricular Assist Device Driveline Feature Characterization and Cold Atmospheric Plasma Treatment for Wound Infections“
Project Leader: MSc. Thomas Schlöglhofer
Division of Cardiac Surgery; Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, MedUV
E-Mail: thomas.schloeglhofer@meduniwien.ac.at
„Evaluation of Response to Aspirin Platelet Therapy in Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients”
Project Leader: MSc. Thomas Schlöglhofer; Assoc.-Prof. Priv. Doz. Mag. Dr. Barbara Messner
Division of Cardiac Surgery; Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory; Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, MedUV
E-Mail: thomas.schloeglhofer@meduniwien.ac.at; barbara.messner@meduniwien.ac.at
„Feedback Control of Cardiac Assist Devices”
Project Leader: Assoc.Prof. DI Dr. Heinrich Schima
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, MedUV
E-Mail: heinrich.schima@meduniwien.ac.at
„Optimization of VAD-Positioning Strategies Using 3D-Modelling"
Project Leader: MSc. Philipp Aigner; Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Francesco Moscato
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, MedUV
E-Mail: philipp.aigner@meduniwien.ac.at; francesco.moscato@meduniwien.ac.at
„Patient monitoring with wearable devices”
Project leader: Laurenz Berger MS
CMPBMT and Department of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: laurenz.berger@meduniwien.ac.at
„Influence of Renal Function on Outcomes after Implantation of Durable Ventricular Assist Devices”
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Roxana Moayedifar
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: roxana.moayedifar@meduniwien.ac.at
„Development and Evaluation of Minimally Invasive Techniques for Ventricular Assist Device Implantation”
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Julia Riebandt
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: julia.riebandt@meduniwien.ac.at
„Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventricular Assist Device Thrombosis”
Project Leader: Dr. Kamen Dimitrov
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: kamen.dimitrov@meduniwien.ac.at
Research Area: Innovationen der Herztransplantation bzw. klinische und translationelle Innovation im Bereich HTX
Team Leader: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr.med.univ. Andreas Zuckermann
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: andreas.zuckermann@meduniwien.ac.at
Projects and Project Leaders:
„DCD (Donation after Circulatory Death)“
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. Dr.med.univ. Arezu Aliabadi-Zuckermann
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: arezu.aliabadi-zuckermann@meduniwien.ac.at
„MMDX (das molekulare Mikroskop bei Herztransplantation)“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Johannes Gökler
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: johannes.goekler@meduniwien.ac.at
„Spenderanalyse“
Project Leader: Dr. med Roxana Moayedifar
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: philipp.angleitner@meduniwien.ac.at
„HLA-Epitope“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Emilio Osorio Jaramillo
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: emilio.osoriojaramillo@meduniwien.ac.at
„Personalized Immunosuppression (TTV, Fast Metabolizer, CF-Donor-DNA)“
Project Leader: Dr. Keziban Uyanik Ünal Enise Ceran
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: keziban.uyanik-uenal@meduniwien.ac.at
„Organprotektion (Maschinenperfusion; transport devices)“
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. Dr.med.univ. Arezu Aliabadi-Zuckermann
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: arezu.aliabadi-zuckermann@meduniwien.ac.at
„AB0 inkompatible HTX“
Project Leader: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr.med.univ. Nina Worel
Department of Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, MedUV
E-Mail: nina.worel@meduniwien.ac.at
„Sensibilisierung, Antikörper mediierte Abstossung (AMR)“
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. Dr.med.univ. Arezu Aliabadi-Zuckermann
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: arezu.aliabadi-zuckermann@meduniwien.ac.at
„Extracorporeal Photopheresis“
Project Leader: Dr.med.univ. Johannes Gökler
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: johannes.goekler@meduniwien.ac.at
„Heart-Transplant Biobank and Cell-Free Donor DNA Driven Analysis of Rejection“
Project Leaders: Dr. Kathrin Freystätter, BSc.; Assoc. Prof. PD Dr. Martin Andreas, MBA, PhD, MEBCTS
Department of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: kathrin.freystaetter@meduniwien.ac.at; martin.andreas@meduniwien.ac.at
Research Area: Infarct-Network
Team Leader: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Herkner, MSc.
Department of Emergency Medicine, MedUV
E-Mail: harald.herkner@meduniwien.ac.at
Project and Project Leader:
„Infarct-Network: Non-Randomized Evidence in Cardiovascular Clinical Research“
Project Leader: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Herkner, MSc.
Department of Emergency Medicine, MedUV
E-Mail: harald.herkner@meduniwien.ac.at
Research Area: Coronary Artery Diseases and Tissue Engineering
Team Leader: Assoc.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Mag. PhD. Barbara Messner
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: barbara.messner@meduniwien.ac.at
Project and Project Leader:
„Establishment of a Novel and Structure Preserving Decellularization Method for off-the-Shelf Vessels Usable in Cardiac Surgery“
Project Leader: MSc. Teresa Mimler
Division of Cardiac Surgery, MedUV
E-Mail: teresa.mimler@meduniwien.ac.at