News
2025
- Alexander Karabatsiakis becomes Associate editor for the journal Neuroimmunomodulation (NIM) for the newly established Perspectives section (December 9, 2025).
- The FWF is funding a joint project with Psychiatry I at the Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI) on disease trajectories in individuals with bipolar disorders.
2024
- Alexander Karabatsiakis receives the award for "Best scientific talk" at the EPMA conference 2024 in Shantou, China.
2023
- Podcast together with my colleague Laurin Mauracher at the local radio station FreiRad Innsbruck (https://insachenmensch.libsyn.com/21-stress-krper-psyche-alexander-karabatsiakis; https://open.spotify.com/episode/6S9PuUXEXXnC58rFBMaFDn?si=57e4da5fa2034c7a). Topics of the broadcasting covered aspectrs of stress on health and disease.
2022
- Under construction
2021
- 2021.12.21: Ass. Prof. Dr. Alexander Karabatsiakis becomes an Editorial Board member of the Journal Neuroimmunomodulation (NIM) under the editorial guidance of Prof. Dr. Rainer Straub.
- EPMA Journal (Scopus IF 7.7, top 3% in "Health Policy"; Clarivate Analytics IF 4.901 / Q1 in "Medicine, Research & Experimental"; SCImago IF 5.529 / Q1 in "Health Policy", Biochemistry (medicine)", "Drug Discovery") welcomed today Dr. Alexander Karabatsiakis as a new member.
2020
- 2020.11.16: The project "Effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on mitochondrial function in depression" was funded by the province of Tyrol through the Tyrolean Science Fund (TWF) with € 12,000. We are very pleased for the financial support of the project.
- 2020.10.15: A new publication describes the epigenetic analysis of aging markers in the context of adverse childhood experiences. The paper is entitled: Ramo-Fernández, L., Karabatsiakis, A., Boeck, C., Koenig, A.M., Gumpp, A.M., Mavioglu, R.N., Ammerpohl, O., Kolassa, I.-T. (in press). Characterization of the effects of age and childhood maltreatment on ELOVL2 DNA methylation. Development and Psychopathology
- 2020.10.01: A new publication in PNAS describes the intergenerational investigation of mitochondrial bioenergetics in the context of adverse childhood experiences: Gumpp, A.M., Boeck, C., Behnke, A., Bach, A.M., Ramo-Fernández. , Welz, T., Gündel, H., Iris-Tatjana Kolassa, I.T., Karabatsiakis, A.. Childhood maltreatment is associated with changes in mitochondrial bioenergetics in maternal, but not in neonatal immune cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), October 1, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005885117
- 2020.09.09: Theses (B.Sc., M.Sc.) can also be offered to students of Molecular Medicine (MUI). If you are interested, please send an email to Alexander.Karabatsiakis@uibk.ac.at