Christian Gruber

Christian Gruber is a research group leader and Associate Professor at the Medical University of Vienna (Austria). He studied Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and Molecular Biotechnology at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biosciences from The University of Queensland. For his achievements, he has received several scientific awards, such as the 2013 Heribert Konzett Award of the Austrian Pharmacological Society, the 2014 Young Investigator Silver Award of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, and the 2014 Dr. Willmar Schwabe Award of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research. The research focus of his team is to study biological function sand pharmacological mechanisms of nature-derived peptides isolated from plants and invertebrates (e.g. peptide hormones, neuropeptides, and peptide toxins), and the development of novel peptide therapeutics. He is a member of the scientific affairs committee of the European Peptide Society and member-elect of the Max-Bergmann-Kreis.