Birgit WALTENBERGER, Mag. pharm.Dr. Assistant Professor
Contact: Institute of Pharmacy/Pharmacognosy University of Innsbruck Center for Chemistry and Biomedicine Innrain 80 - 82/IV Room: L.04.062 6020 Innsbruck / Austria
Extraction, analysis, isolation, and structure elucidation of secondary metabolites from plants and lichens. Identification of drug leads from nature with anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetes, or anti-ageing activity by the use of ethnopharmacological sources, bioactivity-guided fractionation and/or computational techniques.
2015-2018: „Alpine Kosmezeutika“ – Alpine Pflanzen in der Kosmetik (FFG project 848474), assistant to the project coordination
2015-2017: Identification of interleukin-8 (IL-8) inhibitors from natural sources as potential anti-inflammaotry agents for the treatment of respiratory tract diseases” (Scientific and Technological Cooperation Austria - Poland, OeAD project PL 13/2015), assistant to the project coordination
Awards
Award of Excellence 2012 of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft und Forschung) for an excellent Ph.D. Thesis.
Award of the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Stiftung 2012 (Preis der Dr. Maria Schaumayer Stiftung 2012) for an excellent Ph.D. Thesis.
Best Student Paper Award2012 of the LFUI for the publication Waltenberger, B. et al. (2011) J. Med. Chem. 54, 3163-3174.
Poster Presentation Award 2011 at the 3rd Life Science Meeting Innsbruck Universities in Igls, Austria, 2011.
Travel grant 2010 to attend the 58th International Congress of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research in Berlin, Germany, August 29 – September 2, 2010.
Award of the GA 2010 for an outstanding oral research presentation at the YRW of the 58th International Congress of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research in Berlin, Germany, 2010.
Commissions
2016-2020: Member of the Advisory Board of the Alpine Research Centre Obergurgl
