Patients with age-related osteoporosis often suffer fractures that are difficult to treat. This is particularly the case for women, who are affected by the illness far more often than men. A new therapeutic approach zooms in on the human immune system. In this treatment, an established agent is used to suppress inflammation caused by old age, which in turn improves patients’ bone structures.
Oksana Havryliv is an expert on all things profane, crude or obscene. Her research deals with how and when people swear and how verbal aggression is changing in a multicultural society.
Both biological differences and gender have bearing on a person’s health. In Austria, gender medicine research was midwifed by Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, a pioneer in her field.
Persian and Jewish culture are closely connected, says Ariane Sadjed. She aims to illustrate the many faceted nature of the coexistence of Jews and Muslims.
Many of the contemporary-history topics that Barbara Stelzl-Marx has investigated from a retrospective perspective have resurfaced in Europe with the Ukraine war.
Kerstin S. Jobst, a specialist in Eastern European history, speaks about the impact of the Ukraine war on her research and the deep-seated mistrust between East and West.
FWF Schrödinger Fellow and postdoc in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate David Baker, shares his experience and explains the significance of the advances of protein design for medicine.
Gregor Weihs, Research Director of the Cluster of Excellence, about the importance of knowledge transfer and application development and why basic research is a bit like art.
Together with an international team, communications scholar Sophie Lecheler is researching the kinds of dangers and opportunities algorithm-based political campaigns pose to democracy.
In the international environment of the University of Oxford, the microbiologist Isabella Tomanek is culturing and studying communities of gut bacteria to understand how they work together.
Biotechnologist Kathrin Göritzer develops plant-based antibodies that target the virus' gateway, the mucous membranes. These could be used to prevent infections like SARS-CoV-2 in the future.
Geologist and Schrödinger Fellow Erik Wolfgring is investigating sediment cores from the Cretaceous period. He is exploring the lessons to be learnt from this for the current climate crisis.
Schrödinger Fellwo Maria Kirchmair started out from Naples on a journey through the barely explored Mediterranean world as portrayed in Italian literature and film.
France is known for protests, but also for political states of emergency (états d'urgence) and police repression. Political scientist Katharina Fritsch is investigating the relationship between these aspects.
Lukas Anton Wein’s is conducting research in the competitive field of organic chemistry. To drive this forward the Schrödinger fellow joined the renowned Garg Lab at UCLA.
