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Leopold Eckhart

Principal investigator

Associate Professor

Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Qualifications

  • 2017: Universitätsprofessor
    Berufstitel
  • 2010: Habilitation (Venia docendi): Medical Biochemistry
    Medical University of Vienna, Austria
  • 2002: PhD (Dr. techn.)
    Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
  • 2001: Master of Business Administration (MBA)
    Vienna University of Technology, Vienna and Danube University, Krems, Austria
  • 2000: PhD (Dr. nat. techn.)
    University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (Boku), Vienna, Austria

Research grants (principal investigator)

  • 2023-2026: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: Molecular evolution of skin appendages
    Role: Grant applicant and project leader
    Funding: 294,315 Euro
  • 2019-2024: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: Evolution of epidermal transglutamination
    Role: Grant applicant and project leader
    Funding: 379,743 Euro
  • 2015-2019: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: Evolution of epidermal cornification proteins
    Role: Grant applicant and project leader
    Funding: 317,656 Euro
  • 2015-2016: Herzfelder’sche Familienstiftung, Project: Characterization of age-related protein accumulation in autophagy-deficient neurons
    Role: Grant applicant and project leader
    Funding: 35.000 Euro
  • 2011-2015: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: Molecular evolution of the epidermis in amniotes
    Role: Grant applicant and project leader
    Funding: 184.768 Euro
  • 2008-2010: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: The role of DNase1L2 in the epidermis and in epidermal appendages
    Role: Grant applicant and project leader
    Funding: 138.448 Euro
  • 2007-2008: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: DNA breakdown in epidermal keratinocytes
    Role: Grant applicant and project leader
    Funding: 137.976 Euro

Leadership roles in scientific societies

  • 2017-2022: Member of the Board, European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR)       
  • 2021: Chair of the Scientific Program Committee, 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting, European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR)        
  • 2017-ongoing: Leader of the Working Group: Skin Barrier, Arbeitsgemeinschaft dermatologischer Forschung (ADF)
  • 2016-2020: Member of the Management Committee, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action CA15138: European Network of Multidisciplinary Research and Translation of Autophagy knowledge
  • 2009-2013: Member of the Management Committee, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action BM0903: Skin Barrier and Atopic Diseases

Membership in scientific societies

  • ESDR, European Society for Dermatological Research     
  • ADF, Arbeitsgemeinschaft dermatologischer Forschung
  • ÖGDV, Austrian Society for Dermatology and Venereology
  • ÖGMBT, Austrian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • European Epidermal Barrier Research Network (http://www.e2brn.net/)
  • Evolvienna (http://www.evolvienna.at/)

Editorial activities

  • Associate Editor: Journal of Investigative Dermatology; Frontiers in Immunology
  • Editorial Board: Experimental Dermatology; Scientific Reports

Publications

more than 140 papers in peer-reviewed international journals

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5645-2036

 

Attila Sachslehner

Postdoc

Julia Steinbinder

PhD Student

Marta Šurbek

PhD student

Bahar Golabi

Technical Assistant

Weronika Szukała

PhD Student, FEBS Fellowship