Fellowships, Prizes and Honours

Award for innovative brain tumor research

Dr. Eric Freund (MedUni Vienna) and Lea-Katharina Miebach (INP Greifswald) receive the Mehdorn Family Foundation Award for their promising research into overcoming resistance to treatment in brain tumors. The work on medical gas plasmas, carried out in collaboration with Univ.-Prof. DDr. Karl Rössler (Head of the University Clinic), is a joint project between the two institutes.

Eric Freund receives award from the Mehdorn Foundation

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Neurosurgery research receives funding

Prof. Karl Rössler, head of the University Clinic for Neurosurgery, and Dr. Eric Freund have been awarded grants from the Medical Science Fund of the City of Vienna and the Margaretha Hehberger Cancer Research Fund.

The two funded research projects at the University Clinic focus on state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in the field of epilepsy and on research into a novel medical gas plasma therapy for the treatment of tumors in a glioma cell model.

The ceremonial presentation of the decrees took place in February 2025 in the Coat of Arms Hall of Vienna City Hall.

• Erwin Schrödinger Scholarship of FWF 2023 for the project „Stimulated Raman Histology and 5-ALA Fluorescence“ - Research Fellowship at the Department of Neurosurgery, NYU Langone Health, New York City, USA; Dr.med.univ. Lisa I. Wadiura, PhD 

• Research Grant of the Fund of the City of Vienna 2023 for Innovative Interdisciplinary Cancer Research; Dr.med.univ. Lisa I. Wadiura, PhD 

• Promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae, Priv.-Doz.Dr.med.univ. et scient.med. Arthur Hosmann - MedUni News SubAuspiciis
• Theodor Billroth Preis der Ärztekammer für Wien, Dr.med.univ. Anna Cho - MedUni-News Ärztekammer Preis
• Herbert Tumpel-Prize, Priv.-Doz. Mag. DDr. Friedrich Erhart, MIM - Herbert Tumpel-Preis
• Medical Neuroscience Cluster Research Grant, Univ.-Prof. Dr.med.univ. Karl Rössler, Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. PhD Gilbert Hangel - MedUni News - Medical Neuroscience Cluster
• David L. Kleinberg Prize of the International Pituitary Society, Ass.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Alexander Micko - MedUni News David L. Kleinberg Prize
• CNS BEST DATA SCIENCE AWARD; Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Johannes Herta; Dr.med.univ. Anna Cho et al.:  MD 504 Improving Precision of Resection Limits in Surgery for High-grade Gliomas: Preliminary Experience with an In Vivo Raman Spectroscopy Probe

• Prize of the Association for the Promotion of Science and Research for the best dissertations and postdoctoral theses of 2018; Assoc. Prof.ⁱⁿ Priv.-Doz.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ med.univ. Josa M. Frischer, PhD  - MedUni News - Tag der Universität 2019 

• The „Researcher of the Month” Jury awarded the October 2019 prize to Johanna Klughammer and Barbara Kiesel for their paper „The DNA methylation landscape of glioblastoma disease progression shows extensive heterogeneity in time and space.“, which was published in top journal Nature Medicine (IF 32,621). 

• Theodor Billroth Prize of the Medical Chamber for Vienna 2018, Dr.med.univ. Johannes Koren - MedUni News
• Carl-Zeiss-Fellowship 2018 for the Promotion of the young national and international Neurosurgeons,  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Wolfsberger
• Herbert Reisner Preis 2018, Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Johannes Herta (CoAuthor), Dr.med.univ. Johannes Koren et.al.: "Early epileptiform discharges and clinical signs predict nonconvulsive status epilepticus on continuous EEG"

• Charlie Kuntz Scholar Award 2017, Prof. Dr. Peter Grunert: "Biomechanical Evaluation of Lumbar Decompression Adjacent to Instrumented Segments"; (Neurosurgery 79(6):p 895-904, December 2016.)

• Best Paper Award 2017 of the German Society for Neurosurgery - Spine Section ; Prof. Dr. Peter Grunert

• AO Foundation Surgical Reference - Horizon Award 2017, Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr.med.univ. Christian Matula

• Grey Walter Young Investigator Paper Award Clinical Neurophysiology 2017, Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Johannes Herta, Dr.med.univ. Johannes Koren et.al.: Reduced electrode arrays for the automated detection of rhythmic and periodic patterns in the intensive care unit: Frequently tried, frequently failed? 

• Award for PDD/PDT Research Excellence 2017, Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ.et scient.med. Georg Widhalm -  MedUni News - Research Excellence 

• Mentorship Award, UCSF Surgical Innovations 2017, Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ.et scient.med. Georg Widhalm - UCSF News

• Herbert Reissner Prize 2016; Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Johannes Herta (CoAuthor), Dr.med.univ. Johannes Koren et.al.: "Rhythmic and periodic EEG patterns of ‘ictal-interictal uncertainty’ in critically ill neurological patients"

• Theodor Körner Prize 2015, Assoc. Prof.in Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in med.univ. Josa M. Frischer, PhD

• 2015: Best Poster Award, 5th London-Innsbruck colloquium on status epilepticus and acute seizures, London, UK; Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Johannes Herta, Dr.med.univ. Johannes Koren et.al.: „NeuroTrend: prospective validation of rhythmic and periodic pattern detection in the ICU“

• Budget increase following successful evaluation of the ÖAW APART-MINT scholarship 2022; “Targeting the non-canonical Sonic Hedgehog signaling axis to circumvent resistance to Sonic Hedgehog signaling pathway inhibitors in medulloblastomas”; Lisa Gabler-Pamer, PhD, MSc, BSc, BSc

• Associate Professor Arthur Hosmann, MD, PhD; Clinical Fellowship, Department of Neurosurgery, P.D. Hinduja Hospital & Medical Research Center, Mumbai, India; March–September 2023.

• Dr. Lisa Wadiura, MD, PhD; Research Fellowship, New York University, Langone Health, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York City, USA; March–September 2023.

• ESPRIT Project of the FWF 2022; “Receptor-ligand synergies between medulloblastoma cell types”; Lisa Gabler-Pamer, PhD, MSc, BSc, BSc

• Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. univ. Dr. scient. med. Matthias Millesi, Clinical Fellowship, University of Toronto, Canada; July 2020 – June 2021

• Assistant Professor PD Dr. Alexander Micko, Research Fellowship, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA; January – June 2020

• Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Fabian Winter (N790)
• Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Barbara Kiesel (N790)
• Priv.Doz. Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Johannes Herta (N790)
• Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Philippe Dodier (N790)

• Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Johannes Herta (N790)
• Dr.ⁱⁿ med.univ.et.scient.med. Barbara Kiesel (N790)
• Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Mario Mischkulnig (N790)
• Priv.-Doz. Drⁱⁿ.med.univ. Lisa Körner, PhD (N790)
• Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Friedrich Erhart (N790)
• Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Matthias Millesi (N790)
• Ap.Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Arthur Hosmann, PhD (N790)

• Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Philippe Dodier (N790)
• Mag. Dr.med.univ.et scient.med. Friedrich Erhart (N790)
• Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Arthur Hosmann, PhD (N094)
• Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Matthias Millesi (N790)
• Dr.ⁱⁿ med.univ. Lisa Wadiura, PhD (N094)

 

• Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Christian Dorfer, MBA
• Assoc. Prof.in Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in med.univ. Josa M. Frischer, PhD
• Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Gilbert Johannes Hangel, PhD
• Ap.Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Arthur Hosmann, PhD
• Ass.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. Dr.scient.med. Alexander Micko 
• Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.univ. et scient.med. Matthias Millesi