Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dirk Strunk
OUR goal is to advance cell-based therapy and regenerative medicine by developing broadly applicable technology platforms for human cell-based therapy with a focus on hiPSC vs. adult stem cells, human platelet lysate (hPL) and cell-derived EVs in various diseases (see our projects).
Projects
EU HORIZON RIA (AMD-101056712-2) HEAL (2022 - 2025)
HLA-homozygous iPSC-cardiomyocytE Aggregate manufacturing technoLogies for allogenic cell therapy to the heart
WP2 (Lead): Deep immune-phenotyping & AI-based immune response prediction
EU HORIZON RIA (AMD-101056635-5) PROTO (2023 - 2027)
Advanced PeRsOnalized Therapies for Osteoarthritis – TACKLING INFLAMMATION TO IMPROVE PATIENT OUTCOMES
WP7 (Lead): Anti-inflammatory MoA of PLX-PAD
EU HORIZON RIA (AMD-101080267-2) NEXGEN-PD (2023 - 2026)
Next Generation Vaccine Platform Leveraging Skin Immunity to Provide Disease-Modifying Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
WP3 (Lead): Development of theranostic EV-based biomarkers
WISS 2025 Salzburg EVQuant
Microfluidic chip-based EV Analysis
WP3 (Lead): EV diagnostic & therapeutic applicability in regenerative medicine
WISS 2025 Salzburg Cancer Cluster Salzburg
AML microenvironment: Leukemia-derived EVs
Stand-alone Project / applied for funding
HUMAN SKIN ORGANOIDS: Mechanisms of self-organization.
Team and contact
Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg (SCI-TReCS)
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Director
Phone: +43 662 2420-80730
Mail: dirk.strunk@pmu.ac.at
Publications
Assistant & Projectmanagement
Phone: +43 662 2420-80731
Mobile: +43 699 14420089
Mail: cornelia.adhero@pmu.ac.at
Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg (SCI-TReCS)
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Postdoc
Phone: +43 662 2420-80734
Mail: sarah.hochmann@pmu.ac.at
Publications
Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg (SCI-TReCS)
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Bioinformatician | Postdoc
Phone: +43 662 2420-80735
Mail: rodolphe.poupardin@pmu.ac.at
Publications
Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg (SCI-TReCS)
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Technical Assistant
Phone: +43 662 2420-80734
Mail: anna.raninger@pmu.ac.at
Publications
Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg (SCI-TReCS)
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
PostDoc
Phone: +43 662 2420-80734
Mail: martin.wolf@pmu.ac.at
Publications
Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg (SCI-TReCS)
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
PostDoc
Phone: +43 662 2420-80734
Mail: andre.cronemberger@pmu.ac.at
PostDoc
Head of Core Facility Flow Cytometry
Phone: +43 662 2420-80735
Mail: nicole.maeding@pmu.ac.at
Publications