Mentoring Program
The ASciNA Mentoring Program (AMP) is generously supported by the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna. This program seeks to develop a mentoring framework, where established Austrian scientists/scholars and professionals provide guidance, experience and knowledge to early career researchers from Austria.
MENTORING PROGRAM 2013/14
Applications for the new mentoring cycle of the ASciNA mentoring program starting in July 2013 are now possible. The
aim of the AMP is to help young researchers from all kinds of disciplines with
their career planing during their (at least one-year-long) stay in North
America. By definition "mentees" are Austrian scientists at the
beginning of their scientific career, who already work in North America when
the AMP starts in July 2013. The Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna
is again going to support two mentoring pairs, when the mentee is an Alumni of
the Medical University of Vienna. Also, the Technical University of Graz will support two teams.
A brief overview
- Closing date for applications: June 1, 2013
- Completion of the matching process: June 30, 2013
- Kick-off: Beginning of July 2013
- Period of mentoring relationship: July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014
How to apply
If you are interested in becoming a mentor or mentee please contact Beatrix Aigner-Köfinger (administration) via mentoring@ascina.org. We kindly ask scientists, who are interested in becoming a mentor to fill out this mentor data form and send it to us. The same applies to young researchers and future mentees, who are asked to fill out this mentee data form. Please attach also a short CV. Thank you!
MENTEES 2012/13:
Lisa
Gfrerer, M.D., B.A.
Lisa
Gfrerer graduated from the Medical University of Vienna (MUV) in 2011
and obtained a bachelor in political science shortly after. Starting
2006 she worked as a research assistant at the MUV at the Department
of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and the Department of Urology.
Currently she is pursuing a career in academic Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery as a research fellow at the Massachusetts
General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School in Boston. She is
specialized on investigation of the developmental and genetic basis
of craniofacial morphogenisis, especially cleft lip and palate in the
zebrafish model organism.
Mentee Lisa Gfrerer was matched with
Gerald
Brandacher, M.D.
Jelena
Todoric, M.D., Ph.D.
Jelena
Todoric, who is originally a native of Serbia, graduated from the
Medical University of Vienna (MUV) in 2004. She then started her
Ph.D. at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism and did
research on low-grade chronic inflammation in adipose tissue in
obesity and its impact on systemic inflammation and overall metabolic
changes.Currently
she is a PostDoc
at the University California San Diego (UCSD), Department of
Pharmacology, School of Medicine. Her focus lies on studying cancer
cell metabolism and the role of chronic
inflammation in tumor development in the context of
obesity/overweight.
Mentee Jelena
Todoric was matched with Eva
Schernhammer, M.D., DrPH
MENTORS 2012/2013:
Gerald
Brandacher, M.D.
Gerald
Brandacher is the scientific director of the Johns Hopkins Composite
Tissue Allotransplantation (CTA) program and also a visiting
associate professor of surgery in the Department of Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
in Baltimore. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins in 2010, Gerald
Brandacher was a key member of the hand transplant programs in
Innsbruck and at the University of Pittsburgh. He was part of the
team performing the first bilateral hand transplant and first forearm
transplant in the US. His main scientific interests are
donor-specific immune tolerance and immunomonitoring strategies.
Eva
Schernhammer, M.D., DrPH
Eva
Schernhammer is an associate
professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School
in Boston. As adjunct faculty of the Department of Epidemiology at
the Medical University of Vienna she is engaged in several projects
involving Austrian health data. Eva Schernhammer graduated
from the Medical University of Vienna (MUV) in 1992. In 2003 she both
completed a masters degree in Psychology at University of Vienna and
her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) in Epidemiology from Harvard
School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the Epidemiology of
chronic diseases like cancer, coronary heart disease, and
neurodegenerative diseases. She is also interested in circadian
phase, shift work and breast cancer.
More ASciNA Mentoring Pairs 2012/2013:
Mentee Oliver Hauser, Harvard University, Cambridge - Mentor Günter Wagner, Yale University, New Haven
Mentee Iris K. Gratz, University of California, San Francisco - Mentor Jörg Fritz, McGill University, Montreal
Mentee Stefan Schaller, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge - Mentor Peter Nagele, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Presentation of the AMP
ASciNA in cooperation with the Alumni Club of the Medical University of Vienna presented the AMP on March 21, 2012 in Vienna.Read more about the event in bridges, vol 33, May 2012: Mentoring Austrian Scientists in North America – ASciNA Program Presented in Vienna with Alumni Club MedUni Wien
MENTEES 2011/12:
Alessandra Handisurya, M.D.
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In September 2010 Alessandra Handisurya, who is a
board-certified dermatologist, started a postdoctoral research
fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. She joined the National
Cancer Institute, Division of Basic Sciences to do research on
papilloma viruses and to develop future strategies for vaccines. In 2001
she graduated from the Medical University of Vienna and became a
postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Dermatology, Division of
Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases (DIAID). From 2003 until
2010 she was a resident at DIAID. She has shown interest in medical
research since 1996. |
David Stelzeneder, M.D.
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Since August 2010 David Stelzeneder is a research
fellow in the hip research group of Dr. Young-Jo Kim at the Department
of Orthopedic Surgery at the Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical
School. He graduated from the Medical University of Vienna (MUV) in 2008
and then started working on his PhD thesis at the Center of Excellence
High-field MR/Department of Radiology (MUV). Around the same time he
took up a yearlong Orthopedic residency at the Orthopedic Center
Donauzentrum in Vienna. His clinical research is focusing on
morphological and quantitative (biochemical) magnetic resonance imaging
techniques for the spine, hip and knee. |
MENTORS 2011/2012
Edda Fiebiger, PhD
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Since 2007 Edda Fiebiger is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. From 2000 to 2005 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and then became an instructor for Pediatrics. She is a pharmacist by training and received her PhD from the Medical University of Vienna in 1998. Now her main focus is cellular immunology and in particular allergies. |
Alexander Rauscher, PhD
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In 2005 Alexander Rauscher, who is a physicist by training, graduated from the Technical University of Vienna (TU). In 2010 he took position as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia in the UBC MRI Research Centre. He is working in the field of magnetic resonance imaging and focuses on investigative and diagnostic imaging of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson disease and multiple sclerosis. He developed new methods of data acquisition and post processing. Apart from neurodegenerative diseases, he is also interested in blood oxygenation sensitive MRI and time resolved vascular imaging. |
More ASciNA Mentoring Pairs 2011/2012
Mentee Jürgen Köfinger, PhD, who is a
physicist by training and currently a Postdoc at the Laboratory of
Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney
Diseases, National Institutes of Health(NIH) was paired with Ruth Pfeiffer, PhD
a Principal Investigator at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and
Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.
Mentee Christoph Mikulaschek, who has a
law degree, worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at the International Peace
Institute and recently started his PhD at Princeton University was
paired with Alfred Gusenbauer, PhD, former Chancellor of Austria
and now Chief Executive Officer of Gusenbauer Projektentwicklung und
Beteiligung GmbH, Co-Founder of Cudos Advisors GmbH.
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