Benjamin Kirchweger
Benjamin Kirchweger
Mag. Dr.
Post Doc
room 2F454
tel +43-1-4277-55234
email benjamin.kirchweger@univie.ac.at
Teaching
- New results in Pharmacognostical research
(Caenorhabditis elegans as pre-clinical in vivo model)
Research
- Phytochemistry & Biodiscovery
- Application of cheminformatic methods in natural product research for the prediction of biological activities and molecular targets
- Application of Caenorhabditis elegans as an in vivo small animal model
° for the identification of natural products that affect evolutionary conserved regulators of lipid metabolism
° for the discovery of natural products with anthelmintic activity as candidate molecules for screens against parasitic nematodes - Natural products against metabolic, viral, and inflammatory diseases
- Extraction, purification, isolation and characterization of natural products
Publications
- PubMed – NCBI
- ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8948-1012
Awards
Best diploma thesis in Pharmacognosy (2017)
25th Congress of the Austrian Pharmaceutical Society (ÖPhG) in Innsbruck, Austria