CaSR Biomedicine - Calcium Sensing Receptor

 


 

The CaSR Biomedicine European Training Network (ETN) is a fully translational project that utilises a single molecule, the calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR), influencing a range of physiological and disease processes, to develop a unique, strong multidisciplinary and intersectoral scientific training programme training 14 young scientists to become specialists in G protein-coupled receptor biology and signalling.

This European Network formed by 13 research groups from eight countries will undertake a systems biology approach to study the importance of cellular context in the functionality of the same molecule across different tissues (e.g. vasculature, pancreas, gastrointestinal tract) and pathologies (cardio-vascular diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, sarcopenia, cancer) to identify novel therapeutic approaches of CaSR-targeting drugs that could be repurposed for the management of these major diseases. 

The CaSR Biomedicine Network has received funding from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme under REA grant agreement no. 675228.

The CaSR Biomedicine Network is a continuation of the previous Multifaceted CaSR project.

Associate Professor Enikö Kallay 
Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research
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 NEWS

 

We congratulate Amirreza Mahbod for his PostDoc position in the group of Isabella Ellinger at the Medical University Vienna. His project is concerned with nuclei segmentation based on deep learning and aims at improving the software of TissueGnostics. Amirreza was the ESR at our industrial Partner TissueGnostics, where he focused on the development of an innovative solution for automated detection and segmentation of nuclei in microscopic images exhibiting extremely high density of cells. Such conditions are typically found in lymphatic tissue. Amirreza developed a powerful solution based on a Deep Learning framework. Following the CaSR project, TissueGnostics has implemented this algorithm into their StrataQuest image cytometry solution and it is now part of the current version of this high-end commercial package for tissue cytometry, available to the global community of researchers working with microscopic images of tissue section. This is just one yet brilliant example how the CaSR project has affected the scientific state-of-the-art on a global scale.

We congratulate Souvik Das for his new position as Higher Scientific Officer at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK and we wish lots of happiness in his marriage.

We congratulate our Preeti Sharma for starting a postdoctoral position in Prof. Ogembo's lab at the Department of Immuno-Oncology, City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, California.

We congratulate Luca Iamartino for his PhD degree and his postdoc position in the lab of Maria Luisa Brandi at the Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence.

We congratulate our new doctor Anna Glück and wish her success in her new career step at the Department of Health in London.

We congratulate our new doctor Eliana Goncalves Alves and wish her success in her new career step as postdoc at the University of Copenhagen.

We congratulate our new doctors Souvik Das, and Wolfgang Schlattl.

We congratulate our new doctor, Taha Elajnaf, for his successful viva and his new position as postdoc in Fadil’s lab at The Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health (NDWRH) , Medical Sciences Division, Univ. of Oxford.

New publication from Luca Iamartino link

New publication from Taha Elajnaf link

New Publication from Souvik Das link

New Publications from Amirreza Mahbod link

We congratulate our new Doctors Iris Mos, Patricia Pacios Centeno, Maria Lo Giudice, Amirreza Mahbod and Preeti Sharma! link

New Publication from the Biotalentum group has been released on:  "Calcilytic NPS 2143 Reduces Amyloid Secretion and Increases sAPP Release from PSEN1 Mutant iPSC-Derived Neurons" link

Isabella Ellinger and Amirreza Mahbod were invited to give a talk at the "Artificial Intelligence in Clinical and Preclinical Setting" Symposium, Vienna, November 2019 link

CaSR-ESRs meet patients'organisation, Vienna, September 2019 link

Amirreza Mahbod and Taha Elajnaf presented at the 10th Retreat of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology of the Medical University of Vienna, September 2019 link

Souvik Das attended a MCAA (Marie Curie Alumni Association) event titled "Researchers Meet Innovators" in Berlin (11-12 July).  The event was designed for people from research, start-up, not-for-profit, and corporate environments, who want to learn more about innovation and how researchers and innovators can synergistically and successfully work together.

Congratulations to Luca Iamartino who got awarded with a Travel Grant from the Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft to attend the "Advances in Biomedical Research III" workshop held in Split, June 2019 link

Congratulations to Sergei Chavez Abiega who got awarded with a Grant from the "Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds”, to spend 6-months visiting Dr. Jin Zhang’s lab at University of California San Diego.

Amirreza Mahbod, Luca Iamartino and Taha Elajnaf presented at the 15th Young Scientist Association Symposion at the Medical University of Vienna, 13th-14th June 2019 link

Souvik Das has presented his work at the Journées Françaises de Biologie des Tissus Minéralisés link

Congratulations to our ESR Taha Elajnaf who got awarded with a Travel Grant from the Austrian Society for Bone and Mineral Metabolism to attend  the European Calcified Tissue Society Congress in Budapest where he presented his work, May 2019 link

Our ESR Souvik Das presented their work at the European Calcified Tissue Society Congress in Budapest link

The Medical University of Vienna hosted the Viennese Daughters Day link

Congratulations to Amirreza Mahbod who got awarded with a Congress Scholarship from ÖH Med Vienna to attend the 15th European Congress of Digital Pathology link

Congratulations to Preeti Sharma who got awarded with a Travel Grant from ESCEO Eli Lilly to attend the WCO-IOF-ESCEO 2019 in Paris link

UPJV - ESR Souvik Das - presented his work at the American Association Cancer Research Annual Meeting, April 2019 link

Congratulations to Isabella Ellinger, Rupert Ecker and Amirreza Mahbod who got granted a FFG Bridge Young Scientist Project link

University of Oxford - ESR Anna Glück - presented at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, March 2019 link

5th ETN School hosted by Novartis took place in Basel, 21st-23rd January 2019 link

Amirreza Mahbod and Isabella Ellinger got granted NVIDIA GPU by the NVIDIA Developer Program link

Universita' degli Studi di Firenze ESR - Preeti Sharma - presented at XIII Ortomed Congress, Florence, December 2018 link

In Memoriam Dr. Carmen De Torres Gomez-Pallete link

Congratulations to Souvik Das who got awarded with a grant from the French Society for Mineralized Tissue Biology (SFBTM) link

MUW - ESRs presented at the Austrian Bone Conference 2018 link

Our ESRs Amirreza Mahbod, Taha Elajnaf, Wolfgang Schlattl and Maria Lo Giudice presented our Project at the European Researchers' Night in Vienna and in Budapest, 28th of September 2018 link

Congratulations to Luca Iamartino who got awarded with a Junior Travel Fellowship from the European Calcium Society to attend the 15th International Meeting, Hamburg, September 2018 link

MUW - ESRs presented at the 9th Retreat of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Vienna, 18th September 2018  link

Congratulations to Maria Lo Giudice who got awarded with a Travel Grant from FENS and IBRO/PERC organizations to attend the 11th FENS Forum on Neuroscience, Berlin, 2018 link

UPJV - ESR Souvik Das presented his work at the ECTS PhD Traning 2018 link

Congratulations to Mie Kronborg Olesen recipient of the ASBMR Young Investigator Award for the ECTS PhD Training link

MedUni Vienna reserchers join the Children University, Vienna, July 2018 link

Congratulations to Luca Iamartino who got awared with a Travel Grant from the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vienna, to attend the 25th Biennal Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research link

Congratulations to Amirreza Mahbod who got awarded with a Congress Scholarship from ÖH Med Vienna to attend the 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition link

MUW-ESRS presented at the 14th Symposion of the Young Scientist Association, Medical University of Vienna, June 8th 2018 link

3rd Annual Meeting and 4th ETN School took place in Gödöllö, 21st-25th May 2018 link

Congratulations to Luca Iamartino who got awarded with a Trainee Travel Award from the 21st Vit-D Workshop link

Congratulations to Patricia Pacios Centeno who got awarded with a Best Poster Presentation from the British Pharmacological Society link

Our MUW Team at the Long Night of Research, Vienna April 13th 2018 link

UPJV ESR Souvik Das awarded with a Poster Award from the "Société Française de Biologie de Tissus Minéralisés" link

Congratulations to Patricia Pacios Centeno who got awarded with a Travel Grant from Böhringer Ingelheim link

Rupert Ecker from Tissuegnostics visited Prof. Brandi's lab at the University of Florence link

MedUni Wien-ESR Luca Iamartino awared with a Travel Grant from the European Association for Cancer Reseach link

Congratulations to Maria Lo Giudice, Mie Kronborg Olesen and Amirreza Mahbod for their recent peer-reviewed publications link

SAFAN-ESR Wolfgang Schlattl's Poster Presentation at ERLIC Drug Discovery 2017 in Liverpool link

Manchester-ESR Patricia Pacios Centeno awarded with a Schachter Travel Award from the British Pharmacological Society link

MUW-ESRs presented at the Retreat of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Vienna, 19th September 2017 link

3rd ETN School took place in Manchester, 11th-13th September 2017 link

CaSR - ESRs meet next generation researchers, Children University 2017 at the Medical University of Vienna link

Students meet pupils - MedUni Vienna, Austria, 10th July 2017 link

TG customer Beatrice Knudsen visited TG, Austria, 26th June 2017 link

2nd ETN School was held in Copenhagen, 15th-19th May 2017 link

3rd International CaSR Symposium took place in Florence, 11th-13th May 2017 link

1st ETN School and 1st Annual Meeting took place in Oxford, 12th-16th December 2016 link

 CaSR-Biomedicine“ met „Optics, Algos & Ice“
a symposium on advanced digital microscopy and image analysis of cells in tissues, organized by project partner TissueGnostics at the university seminar center in Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria (November, 17 – 20, 2016)  link

New publication on "Cross Talk between the Calcium-Sensing Receptor and the Vitamin D System in Prevention of Cancer" has been released from the group of Prof. E. Kallay. link

Taster days for Pupils:14-year-old school boy Florian Köck wanted to experience science and learn to know scientific professions. link