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.

Publications

Team and contact

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dirk Strunk
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Director

Phone: +43 662 2420-80730
Mail: dirk.strunk@pmu.ac.at
Publications

Cornelia Adhero, MA

Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy

Assistant & Projectmanagement

Phone: +43 662 2420-80731
Mobile: +43 699 14420089
Mail: cornelia.adhero@pmu.ac.at

Dr.in Sarah Hochmann
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Postdoc

Phone: +43 662 2420-80734
Mail: sarah.hochmann@pmu.ac.at
Publications

Dr. Rodolphe Poupardin
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Bioinformatician | Postdoc

Phone: +43 662 2420-80735
Mail: rodolphe.poupardin@pmu.ac.at
Publications

Anna Raninger, MSc
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Technical Assistant

Phone: +43 662 2420-80734
Mail: anna.raninger@pmu.ac.at
Publications

Dr. Martin Wolf
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
PostDoc

Phone: +43 662 2420-80734
Mail: martin.wolf@pmu.ac.at
Publications

Dr.in rer. nat. Nicole Maeding

Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy

PostDoc
Head of Core Facility Flow Cytometry

Phone: +43 662 2420-80735
Mail: nicole.maeding@pmu.ac.at
Publications

Laura Schnedl, BSc
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy

Luciana Lopes Pedroso, MSc
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Technical Assistant

Phone: +43 662 2420-80734
Mail: Luciana.LopesPedroso@pmu.ac.at

Anna Steinhuber, MSc
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy

Mail: anna.steinhuber@pmu.ac.at

Antri Stefani, MSc

Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy

PhD Student

Mail: antri.stefani@pmu.ac.at

Janine Zwicklhuber, MSc
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy
Ph.D. Student

Phone: +43 (0)662 2420-80734
Mail: janine.zwicklhuber@pmu.ac.at

Deepika Kundully Suresh, MSc
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy

Phone: +43 (0)662 2420-80734
Mail: deepika.suresh@pmu.ac.at

Pauline Ley

Phone: +43 (0)662 2420-80734
Mail: pauline.ley@pmu.ac.at

Lisa Jakob
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy

Phone: +43 (0)662 2420-80734
Mail: lisa.jakob@pmu.ac.at