Sustainable Health Research

  • Simon Aberger
    • Project: Evaluation of vascular calcification biomarkers predicting 1- and 2-year mortality in hemodialysis patients
    • Supervisor: Kathrin Eller
  • Daniel Auinger
    • Project: CRP-related pneumothorax - an underestimated complication?
    • Supervisor: Gerhard Prause
  • Petra Martina Baumann
    • Project: Screening, analysis and reporting environment for glucose data in clinical studies
    • Supervisor: Julia Mader
  • Armin Belarmino
    • Project: Evaluation of novel tissue markers obtained from tumor biopsies for candidate selection for liver transplantation in hepatocellular carcinoma
    • Supervisor: Daniela Kniepeiss
  • Martin Benedikt
    • Project: Modern anti-diabetics in cardiovascular disease
    • Supervisor: Markus Wallner
  • Martin Berger
    • Project: Effects of a multimodal training on maintaining cognitive functions in patients with Alzheimer's disease
    • Supervisor: Reinhold Schmidt
  • Bujar Berisha
    • Project: Tear fundtion and ocular surface disorder in patients with vitiligo
    • Supervisor: Jutta Horwath-Winter
  • Anna Maria Boeck
    • Project: Questionnaires for chronic gynecologic pain syndromes - a prospective validation study
    • Supervisor: Gerda Trutnovsky
  • Angela Valentina Böheim
    • Project: Preventive strategies for reduction of persistent postoperative pain - a scientometric analysis
    • Supervisor: Helmar Bornemann-Cimenti
  • Celine Kaja Braun
    • Project: The impact of severe anxiety disorders within the first days after acute myocardial infarction on the development of anxiety disorders, depression and PTSD, with special regard to anxiety symptoms due to the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Supervisor: Andreas Baranyi
  • Elke Brunner
    • Project: Gender Aspekte in der Phoniatrie: Eine Studien zur Geschlechterverteilung sekundär-organischer Dysphobien
    • Supervisor: Markus Gugatschka
  • Martina Brunner
    • Project: Delineating the role of Glucagon and Glucagon measurement in physiology
    • Supervisor: Harald Sourij
  • Ilie-Marius Contor
    • Project: Promotion and development of health literate organizations in the healthcare sector in Styria (Förderung und nEntwicklung der gesundheitskompetenten Organisationen im Gesundheitswesen in der Steiermark)
    • Supervisor: Regina Roller-Wirnsberger
  • Monika Cigler
    • Project: Getting a deeper insight into hypoglycaemia
    • Supervisor: Julia Mader
  • Gerardo Sebastián De Leòn Salazar
    • Project: From curative to preventive medicine through extra-oral taste receptors
    • Supervisor: Eleonore Fröhlich
  • Jana Di Rosso
    • Project: Minimal invasive chest imaging in pediatric radiology
    • Supervisor: Erich Sorantin
  • Daniel Djavid
    • Project: Influence of SF6 endotamponade on rotational stability of toric monofocal IOLs in combined phacovitrectomy: a prospective pilot study
    • Supervisor: Anton Haas
  • Anna-Sophie Eberl
    • Project: Outcome in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing catheter ablation with innovative therapies
    • Supervisor: Daniel Scherr
  • Lisa Eder
    • Project: Evaluation of effects on corneal structures after local strontium-90 brachytherapy with special attention on the corneal innervation via in vico confocal microscopy (IVCM): a prospective study
    • Supervisor: Angelika Karin Klein-Theyer
  • Matthias Florian Egger
    • Project: Predicting disease outcome: the role of the human resoiratory and gut microbiome
    • Supervisor: Martin Hoenigl
  • Julia Eichberger
    • Project: Diagnostic accuracy of new inflammatory biomarkers in the diagnosis of neonatal early onset sepsis
    • Supervisor: Bernhard Resch
  • Martin Eigler
    • Project: Die Patientenverfügung aus medizinischer und moralphilosophischer Sicht. Eine Studie am Boden klinisher Praxis.
    • Supervisor: Henrika Voit-Augustin
  • Hesahm Elsayed
    • Project: Characterizing fecal microbiota treatment in human obesity
    • Supervisor: Julia Mader
  • Stefan Embacher
    • Project: Within-host mathematical models for antibody to improve infectious disease study design
    • Supervisor: Sereina Annik Herzog
  • Sebastian Eppinger
    • Project: Retrospective study of cerebral mikrobleeds and subsequent stroke risk in ischaemic stroke
    • Supervisor: Christian Enzinger
  • Ana Eres
    • Project: Feeling different: long-term consequences of migration on syptoms of depression and PTSD among psychiatric patients. Comparison study of psychiatric patients from Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia with and without migrational background
    • Supervisor: Marius Nickel
  • Viktoria Rosa Ertler
    • Project: Internale Einflussfaktoran der Lebensqualität bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit psychiatrischen Auffälligkeiten
    • Supervisor: Elfriede Renate Greimel
  • Thomas Falb
    • Project: Association between intraretinal cystoid fluid modphology and potential visual acuity recovery in exsudative macular pathologies (IRCM)
    • Supervisor: Anton Haas
  • Sarah Feigl
    • Peoject: Andrology and reproduction
    • Supervisor: Martina Kollmann
  • Esther Foederl-Hoebenreich
    • Project: Examination of new therapeutic and preventive options to interfere with viral infectivity and stability
    • Supervisor: Kurt Zatloukal
  • Stefan Valentin Fuerst
    • Project: Sarcopenia in liver cirrhosis: pathogenesis and clinical relevance
    • Supervisor: Vanessa Stadlbauer-Koellner
  • Thomas Patrick Georgi
    • Project: The role of next-generation sequencing for detection of BAP1 mutations and correlation with BAP1 expression in immunohistochemistry
    • Supervisor: Christoph Schwab
  • Wilfried Glatz
    • Project: Vergleich von torischen Intraokularlinsen und gegenseitigen Hornhautinzisionen (opposite clear corneal incisions, OCCI) zur Astigmatismuskorrektur bei der Kataraktoperation
    • Supervisor: Navid Ardjomand
  • Thomas Graier
    • Project: Evaluation of efficacy, safety and impact on comorbidities of biologics of all classes, small molecules and conventional agents in the treatment of psoriasis under daily life conditions
    • Supervisor: Peter Wolf
  • Jakob Gran
    • Project: Adrenocortical and hormones and choroidal thickness
    • Supervisor: Gerald Seidel
  • Carmen Gruzei
    • Project: Visual field progression and RNFL change after PreserFlo MicroShunt implantation - a prospective cohort study at the Ophthalmology Department Klinikum Klagenfurt
    • Supervisor: Yosuf El-Shabrawi
  • Andreas Guttmann
    • Project: Radiation therapy in choroidal mealnoma patients. Influence on meibomian glands, ocular surface and tear retention
    • Supervisor: Jutta Horwath-Winter
  • Anna-Maria Haas
    • Project: Circadian macular volume changes in the healthy human retina
    • Supervisor: Andreas Wedrich
  • Melanie Haidegger
    • Project: Understanding the pathophysiology of cerebral small vessel disease: the Graz Lacunar Stroke Study 2 (GLAS-2)
    • Supervisor: Thomas Gattringer
  • Astrid Heidinger
    • Project: Pathogen identification in corneal infections using nanopore sequencing - a clinical prospective trial
    • Supervisor: Jutta Horwath-Winter
  • Sven Heldt
    • Project: Diagnostic potential of immunologic markers in pateints with hematological malignancies at risk for invasive mould infections
    • Supervisor: Martin Hoenigl
  • Lioba Heuschneider
    • Project: Predictors for persistent postoperative pain in patients undergoing thoracostomy
    • Supervisor: Helmar Bornemann-Cimenti
  • Thomas Hirsch
    • Project: The nasal microbiome in the therapy of chronic rhinosinusitis
    • Supervisor: Axel Wolf
  • Ruediger Hochstaetter
    • Project: Effect of intrauterine environment on pro- and anti-inflammatory molecules produced by embryo and fetus during pregnancy
    • Supervisor: Ursula Hiden
  • Lukas Hoeflechner
    • Project: Evaluation of minimal invasive glaucoma surgery: Trabeculectomy vs. PreserfloTM vs. Xen®
    • Supervisor: Ewald Lindner
  • Elena Lucia Hofmann-Wellenhof
    • Project: Artificial intelligence in dermatology - how do quantity and type of meta-data and images effect the accuracy of diagnosis
    • Supervisor: Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof
  • Magdalena Holter
    • Project: Activation of patients with a chronic disease
    • Supervisor: Andrea Berghold
  • Matthias Huemer
    • Project: Complementary and alternative medicien in supportive cancer care: patient perspectives and possible ways for its integration
    • Supervisor: Martin Pichler
  • Lara Keding
    • Project: Business start-up and burnout - with special regard to gender specific differences
    • Supervisor: Andreas Baranyi
  • Marlen Kleinhans-Oeller
    • Project: Microbial keratitis: trends at the University Eye Hospital Graz from 2001 - 2019
    • Supervisor: Eva Schmon
  • Michael Kolland
    • Project: HS-Troponin T kinetics in patients treated with MCO membranes compared to high-flux, low-flux membranes and HDF
    • Supervisor: Alexander Kirsch
  • Michael Koller
    • Project: Causes and routes of the spread of antibiotic resistances of human origin in river systems
    • Supervisor: Gernot Zarfel
  • Sarah Madelaine Kostmann
    • Project: Determinants of attitudes towards end-of-life decisions among health professionals
    • Supervisor: Willibald Stronegger
  • Bernhard Kowalski
    • Project: The influence of non technical skills on process parameters of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
    • Supervisor: Christoph Castellani
  • Cornelia Barbara Krenn
    • Project: Consumer health information systems (CHIS) on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus - analysis and development of a toolbox for an interactive, adaptive and individual health information system
    • Supervisor: Andrea Siebenhofer-Kroitzsch
  • Lisa Marie Kriegl
    • Project: Mycobiota and fungal dysbiosis: antifungal immunity and host-pathogen interactions
    • Supervisor: Robert Krause
  • Amila Kugic
    • Project: Leveraging non-lexicalized content in clinical narratives
    • Supervisor: Stefan Schulz
  • Nani Elisabeth Kulmitzer
    • Project: The usability of an e-information tool "e-AuGe" for increasing health literacy and improving the informed consent process - a prospective study
    • Supervisor: Gerald Sendlhofer
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  • Ioana-Claudia Lakovschek
    • Project: Changes of the pelvic floor during pragnancy and their influence on the mode of delivery
    • Supervisor: Daniela Gold
  • Thomas Lederer-Hutsteiner
    • Project: Prevalence and correlates of internet-related additive behaviour among Styrian pupils
    • Supervisor: Wolfgang Freidl
  • Gyoergy Lehner
    • Project: Incidence of symptomatic thromboembolism in women with gynecologic malignancies: a prospective observational study
    • Supervisor: Daniela Gold
  • Wolfgang Michael List
    • Project: Prospective randomized intraindivuídual comparison of dogotal and manual marking of the axis in refractive surgery for myopic astigmatic eyes with phakic toric intraocular lenses
    • Supervisor: Gernot Steinwender
  • Julia Lodron
    • Project: Mental health, cognitive function and stress-related biomarkers in patients with Long COVID
    • Supervisor: Christian Fazekas
  • Ruzica Rosalia Luketina
    • Project: The postoperative risk evaluation of a secondary peritonitis
    • Supervisor: Robert Krause
  • Johann Martensen
    • Project: The influence of mechanical ventilation on the cerebral blood volume and oxygenation in preterm and term infants
    • Supervisor: Berndt Urlesberger
  • Marlene Mayer
    • Project: Supportive care, patient- and life-style-related factors in the course of autoimmunity in children and adolescents within the severe immune cytopenia
    • Supervisor: Markus Seidel
  • Lisa Mayr
    • Project: Prevalence of Gardnerella Vaginalis subgroups in vaginal and urinary microbiome during pregnancy in associations with maternal factors
    • Supervisor: Herbert Fluhr
  • Renald Mecani
    • Project: Automated Insulin Delivery System use during commercial airplane flights
    • Supervisor: Julia Mader
  • Nika Medic
    • Project: Evaluation of tear evaporation rates measured with the VapoMeter: fit for the routine?
    • Supervisor: Jutta Winter-Horwath
  • Monja Michelitsch
    • Project: Facitimab for high-frequent aflibercept treated neovascular age-related macular degeneration: a monocenter, randomized, double-masked, comparator-controlled study
    • Supervisor: Martin Weger
  • Lukas Peter Mileder
    • Project: Quality of neonatal resuscitation and impact of interdisciplinary in situ simulation training
    • Supervisor: Berndt Urlesberger
  • Ulrich Christian Moser
    • Project: Composition of the nasopharyngeal microbiome in children with hypertrophic adeniods
    • Supervisor: Peter Valentin Tomazic
  • Ines Mursic
    • Project: Endocrine and metabolic factors of hypertesnion based on the "BioPersMed" cohort
    • Supervisor: Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch
  • Philipp Neurohr
    • Project: Development of density percentile curves of children for optimizing CT dose
    • Supervisor: Erich Sorantin
  • Simon Orlob
    • Project: Interactions of chest compressions and ventillations in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
    • Supervisor: Gerhard Prause
  • Daniel Pfurtscheller
    • Project: Arterial blood pressure and cerebral tissue oxygenation during immediate transition after birth in term and preterm neonates - a prospective pilot observational study
    • Supervisor: Gerhard Pichler
  • Markus Plass
    • Project: Methods for metadata enrichment and creation of artificial whole slide images (WSI) as prerequisite for the development of AI solutions in computational pathology
    • Supervisor: Luka Brcic
  • Birgit Pohn
    • Project: Explainability of workfowls and decisions processes in digital pathology
    • Supervisor: Kurt Zatloukal
  • Prisca Pondorfer-Schaefer
    • Project: Patients with especially challenging tumor localization: optimizing multidisciplinary management of pateints with cancer in the head and neck region from date of diagnosis to follow-up
    • Supervisor: Dietmar Thurnher
  • Andreas Prenner
    • Project: A feasibility study for the implementation of a disease management program for patients with peripheral arterial disease
    • Supervisor: Guenther Silbernagel
  • Izolda Pristojkovic Suko
    • Project:  Acculturation strategies, adaptation and heath among Croation migrants in Austria and Ireland
    • Supervisor: Wolfgang Freidl
  • Ena Pritisanac
    • Project: Influence of fetal hemoglobin on ncerebral oxygen extraction in term neonates and preterm inmfants measured by NIRS
    • Supervisor: Gerhard Pichler
  • Florian Rainer
    • Project: Prognosis prediction in chroic liver disease
    • Supervisor: Vanessa Stadlbauer-Koellner
  • Elisabeth Resch
    • Project: Nosocomila infection in very-low-birth-weight infants (<1500 g): Influence on post-discharge morbidities and neurodevelopmental outcome
    • Supervisor: Volker Strenger
  • Angelika Rief
    • Project: Evaluation of changes in axillary surgery by time since implementation of axana (axillary surgery after neoadjuvant treatment) study
    • Supervisor: Florentina Peintinger
  • Marc Rijksen
    • Project: Influence of protective factors on health outcome in acute and post-acute COVID-19
    • Supervisor: Franziska Matzer
  • Georg Alexander Rindler
    • Project: Associations between overweight, obesity and mental health
    • Supervisor: Wolfgang Freidl
  • Andrej Roj
    • Project: The clinical impact of oral substitution of vitamin D deficiency on progressiuon free survival and overall survival in patients with resected non-small cell lung cancer
    • Supervisor: Joerg Lindenmann
  • Judith Samonigg
    • Project: Therapy of corticosteroid induced diabetes mellitus
    • Supervisor: Julia Mader
  • Lukas Schober
    • Project: Influence of cord clamping on the cerebral oxygenation and perfusion of preterm and term infants
    • Supervisor: Berndt Urlesberger
  • Elena Maria Dorothea Schoenthaler
    • Project: The influence of the dark triad on health behaviour in patients with affective disorders and mentally healthy individuals
    • Supervisor: Andreas Baranyi
  • Gernot Schließleder
    • Project: Structure and function analysis in PROM1-related retinopathy
    • Supervisor: Rupert Strauß
  • Paul Jakob Schmid
    • Project: Phenotypical and molecular principles of sporulation, germination and growth of environmental and clinical Bacillus cereus isolates
    • Supervisor: Clemens Kittinger
  • Laura Viktoria Scholz
    • Project: Personalized prediction for Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia: Towards a multivariable prediction model in immunocompromised patients with acute respiratory failure or pulmonary infiltrates
    • Supervisor: Stefan Hatzl
  • Tanja Daniela Schug
    • Project: Immune complex vasculitis  - etiological factors and a possible link with medication, a retrospective study
    • Supervisor: Peter Wolf
  • Leyla Schweiger
    • Project: Relevance of ardiac biomarker in patients with peripheral arterial disease
    • Supervisor: Thomas Gary
  • Melanie Sonja Schweinzer
    • Project: Learning from people who have lived in  an SOS Children's Village Facility: Psychosocial stress and bodily distress syndrome (BDS) in early adulthood
    • Supervisor: Christian Fazekas
  • Katahrina Secco
    • Project: Gycemic control i type 1 abetes uring COVD-19 pandemic
    • Supervisor. Julia Mader
  • Lukas Seiß:
    • Project: Stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR) in the treatment of recurrent ventricular tachycardia
    • Supervisor: Tanja Langsenlehner
  • Neli Semrl
    • Project: Genetic polymorphisms and reproductive outcome
    • Supervisor: Martina Kollmann
  • Guelsen Sever Yildiz
    • Project: Southern Austrian respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) inpateint investigation
    • Supervisor: Bernhard Resch
  • Zainab Ghazal Siddiqui
    • Project: Epidemiologie des Tabakkonsums in Österreich
    • Supervisor: Wolfgang Freidl
  • Elisa Sieghartsleitner
    • Project: A randomized controlled trial comparing integrated bipolar and ultrasonic energy device to conventional energy device in breast surgery
    • Supervisor: Florentina Peintinger
  • Christoph Manuel Singer
    • Project: Advanced retinal vessel analysis using neural networks
    • Supervisor: Gerald Seidel
  • Christian Smolle
    • Project: Possibilities and measures to improves health literacy
    • Supervisor: Gernot Brunner
  • Michael Sommer
    • Project: nanopore sequencing in ophthalmology
    • Supervisor: Gerald Seidel
  • Marina Stevanov
    • Project: The impact of the inflammatory ratios neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), monocyte-to-lympgocyte ratio (MLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) on abdominal aortic aneurysm growth
    • Supervisor: Peter Konstantiniuk
    • Marko Stijic
      • At home pain assessment in postoperative children and adolescents after day surgery
      • Supervisor: Alexander Avian
    • Andrea Streit
      • Project: Pateint safety: "Assessment tool to evaluate pateint needs after hospital discharge"
      • Supervisor: Gerald Sendlhofer
    • Jasmin Strutz
      • Project: MicroRNAs and the regulation of feto-placental endothelila function in pregancies complicated by maternal metabolic derangements
      • Supervisor: Ursula Hiden
    • Madeleine Stuebler
      • Project: Human immunodeficiency cirus type 1 drug resistance testing: Evaluation of a new protocol based on ultra-deep sequencing and comparison with population sequencing
      • Supervisor: Harald Kessler
    • Adelina Tmava
      • Project: A prospective cohort study of neurocognitive function and depression in hypoparathyroidism
      • Supervisor: Karin Amreich
    • Hrvoje Tomasic
      • The effect of music on perioperative aanxiety and pain of patients undergoing vitrectomy
      • Supervisor: Gerald Seidel
    • Klimentina Trajkova
      • Project: Influence of Iodine based intravenious contrast media on radiation caused DNA double strand brakes with special focus on different pediatric age groups
      • Supervisor: Erich Sorantin
    • Melina Tsiountsioura
      • Project: Effects of a 12-month consumption of two plant-based dietary supplements on ncardiovascular health in elderly
      • Supervisor: Gerhard Cvirn
    • Julia Unger
      • Project: Evaluation of outcome measures assessing functioning and quality of life in Primary Sjögren's syndrome from the perspective of patients
      • Supervisor: Christian Dejaco
    • Christian Vajda
      • Project: Evaluation of psychosocial factors and impact of standardized psychosomatic assessment in pateints with endocrine disorders on health outcomes
      • Supervisor: Christian Fazekas
    • Katharina Valentin
      • Project: Raxone® treatment for patients with dominant optic atrophy due to OPA1 gene mutation
      • Supervisor: Andreas Wedrich
    • Andreas Voetsch
      • Project: Bleeding in pateints undergoing CABG during dual antiplatelet therapy
      • Supervisor: Elisabeth Mahla
    • Fabian Wagner
      • Project: Brain networks as predictors of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease - a longitudinal study
      • Supervisor: Marisa Koini
    • Katharina Walla
      • Project: Subjective and objective parameters in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps treated with Mepolizumab
      • Supervisor: Peter Valentin Tomazic
    • Fabian Wallisch
      • Project: Prevalence and stages of posterior vitreous detachment in patients with epiretinal membrane
      • Supervisor: Anton Haas
    • Thomas Michael Weber
      • Project: Immunological and microbial features of patients suffering from chronic pain due to fibromyalgia-syndrome
      • Supervisor: Peter Holzer
    • Thomas Wegscheider
      • Project: Rapid responses systems (RRS) in the in-hospital emergency management: effects of RRS implementation using a simulation-based approach
      • Supervisor: Gottfried Fuchs
    • Marie-Therese Weiser-Fuchs
      • Project: Effect of obesity in pregnacy on in vitro maternal endothelial cell function
      • Supervisor: Herbert Fluhr
    • Veronika Anna Katrin Weiss
      • Project: Non-invasive methods in pediatric radiology - a focus on neuroradiology
      • Supervisor: Erich Sorantin
    • Peter Johannes Werkl
      • Project: Tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibition in juvenile idiopathic arthritis
      • Supervisor: Gerald Seidel
    • David Paul West
      • Project: Comparison of skill trainings of intraosseous access with EZ-IO® and NIO®
      • Supervisor: Michael Herbert
    • Stella Wolfgruber
      • Project: Physical/ chemical methods for SARS-CoV2 activation
      • Supervisor: Kurt Zatloukal
    • Christina Helene Wolfsberger
      • Project: Peripheral fractional tissue oxygen extraction and infection in term and preterm neonates - a prospective pilot observational study
      • Supervisor: Gerhard Pichler
    • Nora Maria Woltsche
      • Project: Immune response and conjunctival bacterial flora in patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis treated with dupilumab
      • Supervisor: Peter Wolf
    • Sabine Zenz
      • Project: Investigating the effect of a glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) agonist on the endogenous glucose production in subjects with type 1 diabetes mellitus
      • Supervisor: Thomas Pieber
    • Tobias Ziegler
      • Project: Effects of a 24-month consumption of two-plant based dietary suplements on selected indicatiors of ageing
      • Supervisor: Gerhard Cvirn
    • Christoph Zurl
      • Project: Non-culture-based methods for the detection of sepsis and identification of sepsis etiology
      • Supervisor: Robert Krause

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