Projects to remeber
A curated selection of projects that tell a story — ideas turned into meaningful experiences through creativity, precision, and passion.
Cluster of Excellence: Microbiomes drive Planetary Health
(FWF COE 7, 2023-2028)
Our vision is to break down the walls between environmental (green) and medical (red) microbiome research in Austria and to cross-fertilize each other, resulting in enormous benefits across fields through new, unified conceptual advances and technological innovations.
Involved team members
Charlotte Neumann, Alexander Mahnert, Christina Kumpitsch, Eliška Sedláčková
RESPImmun
(FWF, 2021- 2025)
The goal is to understand the role of the human respiratory system microbiome in the context of lung diseases and immunomodulatory mechanisms.
Involved team members
Tejus Shinde, Christina Kumpitsch
SFB Immunometabolism
(FWF, 2020- 2024)
Understand role of archaea and their cells components, proteins and metabolites on macrophage activity
Understand the interplay of the human microbiome and macrophages; role of the mirobiome in cachexia
Involved team members
Torben Kühnast, Viktoria Weinberger
ARCTECH
(FWF, 2021- 2025)
ARCTECH proposes the first training initiative on archaea, aiming to foster the next generation of European visionaries in
‘fundamental archaeal research and their application in biotechnology’. The project will address key knowledge gaps and develop methods and technologies for archaeal research, which are needed to unleash the industrial potential that archaea
hold.
Involved team members
Luna Groon, Bhawna Arora