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Assoc.Prof.Priv.Doz.Mag.Dr. Petra Obexer

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e-Mail: Petra.Obexer@i-med.ac.at

Group Leader Experimental Neonatology

Short Curriculum Vitae:

Priv.Doz.Mag.Dr. Petra Obexer is group leader and head of the experimental neonatology group at the Department of Pediatrics II at the Medical University Innsbruck and since 2007 group leader of the Pediatric Oncology Group at the Tyrolean Cancer Research Institute, Innsbruck.

Petra Obexer studied microbiology at the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck. During her PhD thesis at the Institute of Experimental Pathology she worked on the identification of mRNAs that are differentially regulated early during glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis in human T-cell leukemia. In 2000 she graduated to Doctor of Philosophy. In the same year she moved to the Institute of Physiology as a PostDoc and further focused on the molecular aspects of acid/base adaptation of kidney epithelial cells. In 2001 she joined the group of Prof. Andreas Heidger at the University Childrens’ Hospital in Innsbruck and investigated the regeneration of the peripheral T-cell pool of children after high-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation. In 2002 she became lab director of the Pediatric Oncology group at the Tyrolean Cancer Research Institute and her main scientific interest since then has been the PI3K/PKB-FOXO3 signal transduction pathway in childhood malignancies with special emphasis on the role of the transcription factor FOXO3 on apoptosis and cell cycle regulation. In 2007 she joined the Experimental Neonatology group at the Department of Pediatrics IV and became head of this group in 2008. In 2010 she received the Venia docendi (habilitation) in Experimental Pathophysiology from the Medical University Innsbruck. She received several scientific awards, among them the "Wolfgang Denk Prize 2002" of the Austrian Society of Hematology, the "Forschungsentwicklungspreis der Stadt Wien 2006" and the "Preis des Fürstentums Liechtenstein für wissenschaftliche Forschung an der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck 2007".