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The first SHIELD Symposium

The PhD students from the SHIELD doctoral programme, including Deepika Gola, organized their first PhD Symposium in Vienna.

"The Symposium brought together researchers for two inspiring days of fascinating presentations, lively discussions and engaging scientific exchange." Deepika Gola

26/03/2026 - 27/03/2026

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Festival
Holi Spring Festival

The Team & Friends celebrate Holi, the Hindu Spring Festival of Colors, Love, and the Triumph of Good over Evil.

March, 2026

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Student Symposium
PAIR PhD programme

PhD students from the PAIR project, including Sebastian, organize an exiting two day Sympsium in the Advent Season in Vienna

17/12/2025 - 18/12/2025

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Huge Congratulations to Dr. Miranda!

We celebrate a big milestone: Sara has defended her thesis with excellence!

We deeply miss her as she moves on to new adventures - we wish you every success and hope to keep in touch and hear all about the exciting new things that lie ahead of you!

20/05/2025

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Conference
Verena's Poster Presentation at the IUIS

19th International Congress of Immunology

17/8/2025 - 22/8/2025

Vienna

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Conference
Verena, Deepika and Andy at the IUIS

19th International Congress of Immunology

17/8/2025 - 22/8/2025

Vienna

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Symposium
Comparative Medicine

The 8th Comparative Medicine Symposium on Campus, including 24 speakers from the Vienna Life Science region and a total of 194 participants.

22/05 and 23/05/2025

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Publication in Nature Communications

Sara's main thesis work published: Lack of TYK2 signaling enhances reistance to Candida albicans skin infections.

Congratulations!

Original work: Miranda S, Lassnig C, Schmidhofer K, Kjartansdottier H, Vogl, C, Tangermann S, Tsymala I, Babl, V, Müller M Kuchler K and Strobl B. Nat Comm 15(1): 10493 (2024)

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Conferences
registration open

Annual meeting of the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society

Vienna, 27/11-29/06 2024

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Travel Award
Andrzej Gruza

Andrzej Gruza receives a Travel Award for the Cytokines 2024 Conference

Korea, 20/10-23/10 2024

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Science Communication
Sara explains our amazing immune system

Sara at the Kinderuni

Vetmeduni, July, 2024

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"Sommerfest" at the Vetmeduni

Lara Radovic, Jelena Josipović, Verena Babl, Sara Lang, Sara Miranda, Hrönn Kjartansdottir, Andy Gruza, Mariia Karapetiants (from top left to right to bottom right)

Vetmeduni, 20/06/2024

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Team outing
The team on a long weekend trip in Portugal

A trip organized by Sara

Sara Miranda, Andy Gruza, Jelena Josipović, Verena Babl, Lara Radovic, Mariia Karpetiants, Sebastian Pichler, Hrönn Kjartansdottir (from left to right)

17/06-22/06 2024

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Science Communication
Sci-Fun comics by Sara Miranda

Sara turns her PhD project into a comics

February, 2024

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Conferences
PTCOG in Singapore

Sebastian Pichler and Ana Beatriz Couto Marques Dias (group Dea Slade, Max Perutz labs, Vienna), both PhD students from the PAIR project, presented their work at the PTCOG conference.

10/06 - 15/06/2024

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Poster prize
Andrzej Gruza

Andy receives a poster prize at the 2nd International Conference on Mesenchymal Cells in Health & Disease.

Chania, Crete, Greece

27/06 - 2/07/2024

Congratulations!

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Symposium
Comparative Medicine

The 7th Comparative Medicine Symposium on Campus, including 26 speakers from the Vienna Life Science region and a total of 200 participants.

27/05 and 28/05/204

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