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1 Nr. Titel Vorname Name Inst./Klinik Projekttitel bewilligt Dissertationsförderungspreis Dr. Anne Oberguggenberger Department für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie (Betreuer: Univ.-Doz. Dr. DI Bernhard Holzner) Adherence to Endocrine Agents in Early Breast Cancer patients - methodological challenges of adherence measurement, predictors and prevalence rates 1.000,00 Kategorie A: 3 Projekte 5 PhD Luca Fava Biocenter Innsbruck Capase activation upon extended mitotic arrest 3 9 Dr. Karin Jöhrer-Deym 19 Mag. Dr. Frédéric R. Santer Univ.-Klinik für Urologie Impact of Pim-2 expression in multiple myeloma PARPi for prostate cancer treatment 3 3 Kategorie B: 25 Projekte

2 1 Mag. Florian Baumgartner 2 Dipl.Biol. Florian Bock Immunology MMTV/Neu-driven breast cancer in the absence of Bim The role of PDCD5 in the DNA damage response 3 Mag. Karin Ecker Medical Analysis of p21 cip1 regulation by reactive oxygen species 4 Dipl.Biol. Holger Erb Department of Urology, Experimental Urology Influence of IL-4 on Prostate Cancer initiating cells 6 Dipl.Biol. Sylvia Ganghammer 7 DI (FH) Dr. Judith Hagenbuchner Contribution of the chemokine receptor CXCR3 to B-CLL progression PIK3IP1: a regulator of neuroblastoma metastasis?

3 10 Mag. Anita Kofler "High Trough-Put" Functional Analysis of Candidate Genes in Glucocorticoid-Included Apoptosis of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 11 Dr. Heike Larcher Department of Pediatrics/Oncology, MUI Effect of the Edelweissderivate Leoligin in childhood acute lymphatic leukemia 12 Dr. Claudia Manzl 13 Dr. DI Petra Mikolcevic 14 MSc Hannes Moser Biocenter, Molecular Pathophysiology, MUI Biocenter, Molecular Pathophysiology, MUI Chk-1 suppressed cell death pathway in tumourigenesis: a new way to kill p53 mutated cells? Genome editing in functional oncogenomics Functional analysis of FZR1

4 15 MSc. Eleonora Ottina 16 MSc. Lukas Peintner A1/Bf11 in tumour progression of myeloid malignancies and chemotherapy resistance Examination of hematopoiesis after the loss of Fzr1 17 Dr. Ines Peschel Medical Phosphorylation of p27 kip1 by the receptor tyrosine kinase FLT3 18 Mag. Martina Roilo 21 Cand. med. Thomas Scherg-Kurmes Medical Internal Medicine i & V, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology Identification of CIRP as a Positive Regulator of p27 kip1 Influences of 3028 on LFA-1-dependent ZAP- 70 phosphorylation

5 22 Dr. Bettina Schlick Oncotyrol GmbH and Experimental Urology The role of voltagegated Ca2+ Channel CaV1.3 in ERG rearrangement-positive prostate cancer: Potential therapeutic applications of VGCC blockers in cancer therapy 23 Dr. Andreas Seeber, Experimental Oncology Laboratory Immunohistochemical Analysis of the intracellular and extracellular domain of EpCAM in epithelial cancer tissues 26 MSc Thangavadi vel Shanmugapriya Role of CCR10/CCL27 in progression of Multiple Myeloma 27 Giridhar Shivalingaiah Molecular Pathophysiology Evaluation of acute depletion of APC/C activity in human tumor cell lines as experimental tumor therapy

6 28 Dr. Stephan Sickinger Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory Targeting mitochondria and glycolytic pathways in colon carcinoma cells as new strategies to overcome multidrug resistance 29 Dr. Sergej Skvortsov Department of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Molecular basis for ineffective chemoradiotherapy combined with cetuximab 31 Dr. Christoph Tripp Univ.-Klinik für Dermatologie und Venerologie Characterization of dendritic Cells in Melanoma Metastases 32 Dr. Jonathan Vosper 33 Dr. Claudia Zelle-Rieser Medical Characterisation of the molecular targets of Statin anti-tunour activity Signaling defects and functional impairment in T cells from chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients Gesamtbetrag: ,00

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