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Alternatives to animal testing: Honor for AIT Principal Scientist Winfried Neuhaus
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AIT microbiome expert Angela Sessitsch has been ranked among the "Highly Cited Researchers" worldwide for six years in a row.
Competence Unit Bioresources, is among the most cited researchers worldwide. In addition to her role at AIT, Angela Sessitsch is also Vice President of ÖGMBT - Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences
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AIT Bioresources team wins the Lower Austrian Innovation Award in the category "Best Innovation from Lower Austrian Research Institutions"
success at the Houska Prize 2023, as well as the AIT participation in the Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health". The award-winning AIT project focuses on the research and application [...] The Bioresources Team of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources was honored for its innovative research achievements in the field of sustainable agriculture. With the project "Endophytes - the solution [...] to promote sustainable plant production. Through the development of advanced delivery technologies, AIT experts have commercialized endophytic strains such as Bacillus simplex KLA5-2 and Bacillus simplex
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AIT supports the "Austrian Digital Heart Program" in clinical research.
undetected cardiac arrhythmia, e.g. to prevent strokes. Dieter Hayn, AIT Project Manager and Senior Scientist of the Digital Health Team at AIT, emphasizes the importance of telehealth as an integral part in [...] The Digital Health group of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources is an important part of the "Austrian Digital Heart Program" (ADHP), which recently received a funding commitment of 4 million euros [...] decision support, and many more. "The design, development and operation of this comprehensive platform is AIT's mission. To do this, we will have to overcome some challenges and find new innovations in the digital
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AIT is a partner in the development of a mobile One Health laboratory.
diagnostics for border controls and quarantine areas. AIT's rapid tests are a crucial factor in this." says Johannes Peham, AIT Point-of-Care Expert. AIT is taking the lead in developing the MOBILISE diagnostic [...] The molecular diagnostics team of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources is significantly involved in the EU-funded MOBILISE project. The aim of the project is to intensify the fight against emerging
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Strategic Cooperation between AIT and Danube Private University
The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) is pleased to announce a strategic cooperation with Danube Private University (DPU). This partnership aims to leverage the expertise of both institutions [...] . Robert Wagner, Director of DPU: "As the largest non-university research institution in Austria, AIT is one of the leading institutions in technology development in Europe. Together with this strong partner [...] Guenther, Head of Center for Health and Bioresources, and coordinator of the cooperation on the part of AIT, commented on the partnership: "This cooperation is a significant step for both institutions. By exchanging
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Fighting the effects of climate change - two AIT experts in ORF documentary
Two AIT experts, Claudia Jonak, Competence Unit Bioresources at the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, and Philip Leopold, Competence Unit Transportation Infrastructure Technologies at the AIT Center [...] to ORF-Streaming (DE): https://tv.orf.at/program/orf3/unserwette100.html Plant Vigor: https://www.ait.ac.at/themen/improvement-of-plant-quality-vigor/plant-stress-tolerance-mechanisms
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Revolutionary data storage technology: AIT-led consortium wins EIC Pathfinder Challenge funding
A consortium led by the AIT Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics at the Center for Health and Bioresources has won EIC Pathfinder Challenge funding to use DNA as a data storage device. The group plans [...] technologies, such as multiplex assays, DNA nanotechnology, bioinformatics and synthetic biology. The AIT will be involved in almost all areas of the project and are mainly responsible for developing the hardware [...] of DNA-based data. Project coordinator Ivan Barisic, Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, leads the consortium of six partners from four EU countries and
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AIT expert Winfried Neuhaus advisory member of EU Partnership for the promotion of non-animal methods
industry associations have joined forces for this purpose. Now, AIT expert Prof. Dr. Winfried Neuhaus, Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, is strengthening the [...] of the Action Program and EPAA projects. Winfried Neuhaus, AIT Principal Scientist of the Molecular Diagnostics Competence Unit at the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, was selected to strengthen [...] (Replacement - Reduction - Refinement) of animal studies. He leads the Biological Barriers Group at AIT, he is an expert in the field of alternatives for animal models and he coordinates the COST Action
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AIT is part of the Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health"
and to enable their targeted manipulation as an innovative solution for a sustainable future. For AIT, this opens up the opportunity to strengthen long-term collaborations with excellent Austrian research [...] Cluster of Excellence. The Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes drive Planetary Health" will enable AIT to strengthen long-term collaborations with excellent Austrian research institutions and explore new [...] new applications of microbiomes. Angela Sessitsch, Head of Competence Unit Bioresources of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, commented: "We are thrilled to have been able to establish this Cluster
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AIT Gender & Diversity Officer Prof. Dr. Elke Guenther Nominated for Minerva Award
companies and brands that are committed to promoting and supporting women in leadership positions. AIT Gender & Diversity Officer Prof. Dr. Elke Guenther, Head of Center for Health and Bioresources
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DPU and AIT organize symposium on nanoplastics
Technology (LiST). More than 2,000 students from 66 nations are enrolled at the DPU. AIT Austrian Institute of Technology The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is Austria's largest research and technology [...] prevention, awareness, legislative efforts, and societal impact" in Vienna on September 15 and 16, 2022. AIT Austrian Institute of Technology The conference, which will be attended by around 30 scientists from [...] eight European nations, is being jointly organized by Danube Private University (DPU) in Krems and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. The conference is chaired by the top French researcher Corinne Nardin
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AIT Molecular Diagnostics Group develops new detection system for infectious bacteria
The AIT Molecular Diagnostics Group, Center for Health and Bioresources, together with partners from Italy and Croatia, is developing a powerful tool that will provide a highly sensitive, rapid and c [...] Conventional methods are either slow, or expensive, complex and not sensitive enough. Ivan Barisic's AIT research group has a better solution in mind: their goal is to develop a rapid, highly sensitive and [...] developed the CATANA system as part of the MARILIA project" says Ivan Barisic project leader from AIT's Molecular Diagnostics group "the software for three-dimensional modelling and manipulation of complex
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AIT Sensor Group finds cost-effective lab-on-a-chip solution for integrated-optical biosensors
sensor group of Rainer Hainberger, Senior Scientist in the Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, has developed a laser diode pumped lab-on-a-chip concept that is [...] to problems in previously used measurement configurations, but not in the solution implemented by AIT, in which a narrow-band laser light source is realised directly on the chip. The result is an easy [...] refractive index change in the immediate vicinity of the waveguide surface. Based on previous work, the AIT team integrated an organic monomode solid-state laser into an integrated photonic sensor chip with
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AIT expert Stefan Orter presents cardiovascular study at The Physiological Society
publication platform of the well-known "The Physiological Society" now focuses in an Editor's Pick on AIT expert Stefan Orter, Competence Unit Medical Signal Analysis of the Center for Health and Bioresources [...] were carried out simultaneously with gold standard cardiac ultrasound and the CardioCube developed by AIT, which can record continuous blood pressure waves by means of oscillometric measurement." Bernhard
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AIT spin-off CellEctric wins PHÖNIX Founders' Prize 2022 in the Prototype category
(aws) awarded the eighth PHÖNIX Founders' Prize to outstanding spin-offs and start-ups. This year, the AIT spin-off CellEctric Biosciences was awarded in the prototype category for its method for the rapid [...] them effectively. In recent years, the Viennese company CellEctric Biosciences - a spin-off of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Center for Health and Bioresources - has developed a method that [...] selected by a jury. Further Information (DE): https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20220421_OTS0162/ait-spin-off-cellectric-revolutioniert-diagnose-von-blutvergiftung PHÖNIX - Der österreichische Gründerpreis:
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AIT Bioresources expert Eva Maria Sehr on winter vegetables at P.M.Wissen
vegetables. Wolfgang Palme, Höhere Bundeslehr- und Forschungsanstalt für Gartenbau Schönbrunn, and AIT Bioresources expert Eva Maria Sehr, Center for Health & Bioresources, explain the protective mechanisms
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AIT is a member of the Austrian platform for human biomonitoring
to chemicals. AIT is an enlisted member since October 2021. The BMK (Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology) has invited the AIT Center Health
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Houskapreis 2021: BOKU SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests with AIT contribution wins 3rd place in the public award
Molecular Diagnostics experts from the Center for Health and Bioresources of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), have developed two serological SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests. For this, they were [...] the test is used in clinical diagnostics by the AIT cooperation partner Laboratorium Dr. Kosak, Dr. Reckendorfer und Partner. Read more at: https://www.ait.ac.at/news-events/single-view/detail/6307?cHas [...] cross-university and cross-company consortium with over 100 Viennese researchers. The researchers of the AIT Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics, Center for Health and Bioresources, tested more than 60 different
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AIT Digital Health Team at the Austrian Health Forum 2021
of the new technical possibilities and data availability. AIT followed the invitation of the Health Fund Styria The Digital Health Team of the AIT Center for Health & Bioresources (CHB) was invited to [...] telemonitoring in Styria, HerzMobil and therapy networks at the booth of the Health Fund Styria. The AIT experts were pleased to meet many project partners in person and the opportunity to talk about the [...] patients into the national health record." The report is currently being prepared for routine use by AIT experts with the application partners Tirol Kliniken and KAGes as part of HerzMobil. In the project