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Current lab members: 

Alexis J. Lomakin (Ph.D.) - PI

Jakub Belhadj (M.Sc.) - Senior Research Assistant

Surina Surina (M.Sc.) - Ph.D. Student

Olga Sereda (B.Sc.) - Master's student

Jana Schneider (B.Sc.) - Diploma Student

George Gourgi (B.Sc.) - Diploma Student

Alumni: 

Nicolette Szeifer​ 

Selena Prantner

Raffael Ebeid

Benjamin Zrzavý

Marwan Diaa Hussein 

Sofiia Frolova

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Davide Salati

Anja Hart

Abraham Guerra

Constantin Pierer

Miriam Pedron 

Our funders: 

​We acknowledge the core funding from our host Institution, the Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics, MedUni Wien;

Fellinger Cancer Research Foundation;

OeAD, Agency for Education and Internationalisation 

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Our collaborators: 

​Samantha Stehbens (University of Queensland, Australia)

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Core expertise: Microtubule cytoskeleton in cell polarity & migration, Optical microscopy, and Mechanobiology

Ju et al. Nature Cell Biology, 2024

Stehbens et al. Nature Cell Biology, 2014

Ratheesh et al. Nature Cell Biology, 2012

David Odde (University of Minnesota, USA)

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Core expertise: Microtubule biophysics, Quantitative cell biology, Cellular mechanobiology, and Biophysical modeling

Isomursu et al. Nature Materials, 2022

Gardner et al. Cell, 2014

Chan & Odde. Science, 2008

Eugen Dhimolea (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)

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Core expertise: Adaptive drug-resistance mechanisms in cancer, Therapy-induced diapause- and senescence-like cell resilience, and Systems biology of cancer

de Matos Simoes et al. Nature Cancer, 2024

Dhimolea et al. Cancer Cell, 2021

Duy et al. Cancer Discovery, 2012

Jan Bouchal (Institute of Molecular & Translational Medicine, Czech Republic)

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Core expertise: Clinical & experimental oncology, Molecular pathology of cancer, and Prostate and breast carcinomas 

Kvokačková et al. Molecular Oncology, 2023

Kurfurstova et al. Molecular Oncology, 2016

Bouchal et al. Prostate, 2011

Our values and culture: 

  • Be ambitious, persistent, and determined.

  • Stay humble and modest. Individuals and teams can do amazing things when they share the credit.

  • Great discoveries lurk everywhere; keep your eyes open.

  • Success begins by choosing important problems, coming to fruition with great ideas and great execution.

  • Stay focused and mindful of our goals with a clear understanding of the path ahead.

  • Value uniqueness, helping people be the best they can be at what they do best.

  • Work hard but have fun and be a little quirky. 

Job opportunities: 

Our vision is to solve complex biomedically-relevant problems in cell & tissue research through highly collaborative, international, and multi-disciplinary team science. Therefore, we welcome scholars from all over the world with backgrounds in both the biomedical and physical/computational sciences. If you are interested in opportunities within the Lomakin lab, please e-mail Dr. Alexis Lomakin: alexis.lomakin@meduniwien.ac.at

Medical University of Vienna 

Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics

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