Florian Grebien did his PhD jointly supervised by Ernst Müllner of the Medical University Vienna and Hartmut Beug of the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna. For his post-doctoral research he joined the team of Giulio Superti-Furga at the Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM), Vienna. From 2014 to 2018, he was a Principal Investigator and group leader at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research (LBI-CR) in Vienna. In January 2018, he was appointed Professor and head of the institute for Medical Biochemistry at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.
Florian Grebien’s research focuses on acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a cancer of white blood cells that is characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal myeloid cells that accumulate in the bone marrow and interfere with the production of normal blood cells. The Grebien laboratory aims to contribute to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of leukemia development. We study cellular and molecular effects of leukemia-associated oncoproteins through the development and use of novel tools, including cell culture and mouse models, Next Generation Sequencing, Mass Spectrometry and primary patient samples.

Manuela Thullner
Secretary

Melanie Allram
PhD student
“I am investigating NUP98-fusion proteins and their interaction partners in the context of biomolecular condensates as drivers for leukemogenic gene expression.”


Thomas Eder
PostDoc
“As bioinformatician I have a special interest in cutting edge NGS technologies, the resulting data and its applications as well as tool development. My research focuses on normalization methods and techniques used for differential gene expression and differential ChIP-seq.”





Martin Piontek
PhD student
“My research focuses on molecular factors that mediate the response to recently estabilished targeted therapies in acute myeloid leukemia.”


Patricia Testori
MSc student
“My goal is to elucidate the role of GATA2 in AML by generating relevant models. “


Anna Vidal
PhD student
“My work aims to understand the complexity of melanoma brain metastasis formation. I use CRISPRa/i systems on patient derived melanoma cell lines to study the interaction with astrocytes and the role of CD271.”

Nadja Wukowits
MSc student
“My aim is to characterize the epigenetic landscape of fusion-oncoprotein-driven leukemia.”
Alumni
- Paula Meisl, Diploma student – Veterinary Medicine (2022)
- Irene Polidori, Master student (2022)
- Jisha Puthenpurayil, Bachelor student (2022)
- Chloe Barthelemy, Diploma student – Veterinary Medicine (2021-2022)
- Bernhard Alber, Master student (2021-2022)
- Edwin Rzepa, Bachelor student (2021)
- Torben Redmer, PostDoc (2019-2021)
- Johannes Schmoellerl, PhD student (2014-2020)
- Theresa Humer, Master student (2019-2020)
- Luisa Schmidt, PhD student (2014-2019)
- Stefan Terlecki-Zaniewicz, PhD student (2016-2019)
- Fabio Liberante, PostDoc (2016-2019)
- Lisa Scheiblecker, Master student (2017-2018)
- Konstantina Chatziathanasiou, Technician (2017-2018)
- Nathalie Kuchynka, Bachelor student (2018)
- Anna Skucha, PhD student (2012-2018)
- Anna Katschnig, Technician (2017-2018)
- Frank Ruge, Master student (2017)
- Christa Van der Veen, Master student (2016)
- Stephanie Kreimel, Bachelor student (2015)
Visiting researchers / Interns
- Ezgi Aslan
- Helene Breid
- Anna Falkner
- Daniel Freund
- Erna Islamagić
- Marketa Kovalova
- Agata Labedz
- Natalia Giner Laguarda
- Theresa Muthspiel
- Guillermo Fernandez Rodriguez
- Claudio Schmidt
- Maximilian Sexl
- Rathick Sivalingam
- Samantha Tauchmann
- Sinem Usluer
- Giacomo Volpe
- Tamina Weiss
