Teaching

• All semesters

Research

• Molecular Targets Group
• Natural products and cellular stress resistance
• Impact of biogenic compounds on
  
  • redox balance (Nrf2, ROS as second messenger)
  • glucose homeostasis (insulin signaling, PTP1B, glucose uptake and metabolism)
  • cellular bioenergetics as determinant of signal transduction
• Mode of action studies, chemical biology

Publications

• PubMed - NCBI
• ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7618-5505

Funded Projects (as Lead-PI)

• 2021 - 2026
  FWF – Project  P33778
  AMP(K)lifying Nrf2 target gene expression
  https://pharmakognosie.univie.ac.at/people/heiss-elke-h/p33778
• 2019 - 2024
  FWF – Project P32600
  "Metabolic Immunomodulation" of natural products.
  https://pharmakognosie.univie.ac.at/people/heiss-elke-h/p32600
• 2016 - 2019
  FWF – Project P29392
  Role of AMPK for the Nrf2-dependent cellular stress response.
  http://pharmakognosie.univie.ac.at/people/heiss-elke-h/p29392
• 2015 - 2017
  Herzfelder´sche Familienstiftung
  Metabolic reprogramming - a target for natural products in the alleviation of agecompromised wound healing?
• 2012 - 2015
  Herzfelder´sche Familienstiftung
  Counteracting the age-related decline of antioxidant defense and metabolic function by activation of the transcription factor Nrf2
• 2011 - 2014
  FWF – Project P23317
  Antiproliferative and antimigratory activity of I3MO.
  http://pharmakognosie.univie.ac.at/people/heiss-elke-h/p23317
• 2011 - 2014
  Project within the Graduate Program “Bioactivity Profiling & Metabolism” (University of Vienna)
  Natural products and their protective effect against hyperglycemia- the role of activated Nrf2
  http://biopromotion.univie.ac.at/projects/subproject-y1/
• 2011 - 2012
  Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung der Stadt Wien – Project H-1755/2010
  Natural products fighting insulin resistance
• 2010
  Industrial collaboration project (Reata Pharmaceuticals, Tx, USA)
  Synthetic triterpenoids and their impact on endothelial cell function
• 2008
  Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung der Stadt Wien – Project H-01509/2007
  Natural products against endothelial dysfunction under hyperglycemia
• 2005
  Sponsor: Svenska Läkaresällskape
  Dissection of interaction partners of the tyrosine kinase Flt3
• 2004 - 2005
  MAS Cancer Fonden
  Identification of autophosphorylation sites of Flt3

Fellowships

• Postdoctoral fellowship from the Wenner-Gren-Stiftelse (2003-2005)
• Postdoctoral fellowship from the DAAD (2001-2003)
• Short term fellowship for academic visits abroad from Boehringer Ingelheim (1998)