Sparkling Science: Final Presentations of HTBLuVA Salzburg at PMU

School Meets Science: In May, students from the 5AHBG class of HTBLuVA Salzburg, Department of Biomedicine and Health Technology, presented their diploma theses to an interested audience at the Paracelsus Medical Private University (PMU).

For the third time, the final event took place at the PMU facilities—a proven cooperation that has developed over the years from several joint projects within the Sparkling Science initiative of the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalization (OeAD) between the Institute for Tendon and Bone Regeneration and HTBLuVA.

A total of eleven diploma theses were presented by 27 committed students, five of which were developed in direct collaboration with the PMU. The Institute of Pharmacy and medPhoton GmbH also supported selected projects as partner institutions.

Special highlight: One of the works was developed as part of the Sparkling Science 2.0 project "SPARCling Matrix." The focus is on the matrix protein SPARC for tendon physiology and healing—a current topic of great medical relevance, as explained by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Traweger, head of the Institute for Tendon and Bone Regeneration. The project partners Dipl.-Ing. Robert Vogl and Dipl.-Ing. Peter Klotz, as well as the students involved in the research, Dora Dabasi and Alexander Spitze, are pleased with their results so far. The project is in its final phase and will be completed by September 2025.

The final presentations of the committed students demonstrate the potential of young people to actively contribute to the research of tomorrow.

Translated by Le Chat / Mistral AI