Univ.-Prof. Manuela Schmidt, Ph.D.
T: +43-1-4277-55360
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Haroutounian S, Segelcke D, Sondermann JR, Pradier B, Vollert J, Xian F et al. Proteome-assisted multi-feature discriminant modelling of chronic post-surgical pain in female patients: A proof-of-concept study. Pharmacological Research. 2026 May;227:108175. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2026.108175

Sondermann JR, Barry AM, Xian F, Haberl T, Gomez-Varela D, Benseler F et al. Proximity Labelling Reveals the Compartmental Proteome of Murine Sensory Neurons. European Journal of Pain. 2026 May;30(5):e70277. doi: 10.1002/ejp.70277

Grundtner S, Xian F, Malzl D, Radits T, Barry AM, Sondermann JR et al. Temporal and demographic patterns of peripheral nerve proteomes in preclinical neuropathic pain. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 2025 Dec 4;193:118855. Epub 2025 Dec 4. doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2025.118855


Barry AM, Sondermann JR, Lesnak JB, Xian F, Franco-Enzástiga Ú, O’Brien JA et al. Multi-omic integration with human dorsal root ganglia proteomics highlights TNFα signalling as a relevant sexually dimorphic pathway. Pain. 2025 Oct;166(10):2386-2402. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003656

Xian F, Brenek M, Krisp C, Urbauer E, Kumar RKR, Aguanno D et al. Ultra-sensitive metaproteomics redefines the dark metaproteome, uncovering host-microbiome interactions and drug targets in intestinal diseases. Nature Communications. 2025 Jul 18;16:6644. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-61977-7

Sondermann JR, Barry A, Xian F, Haberl T, Gomez Varela D, Benseler F et al. Proximity labelling reveals the compartmental proteome of murine sensory neurons. bioRxiv. 2025 Jun, p. 1-53. doi: 10.1101/2025.06.13.659475

Lohrberg M, Mortensen LS, Thomas C, Fries F, van der Meer F, Götz A et al. Astroglial modulation of synaptic function in the non-demyelinated cerebellar cortex is dependent on MyD88 signaling in a model of toxic demyelination. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 2025 Feb 23;22(1):47. doi: 10.1186/s12974-025-03368-9

Segelcke D, Sondermann JR, Kappert C, Padier B, Görlich D, Fobker M et al. Blood proteomics and multimodal risk profiling of human volunteers after incision injury: A translational study for advancing personalized pain management after surgery. Pharmacological Research. 2025 Feb;212:107580.


Grundtner S, Sondermann JR, Xian F, Malzl D, Segelcke D, Pogatzki-Zahn EM et al. Deep proteomics and network pharmacology reveal sex- and age-shared neuropathic pain signatures in mouse dorsal root ganglia. Pharmacological Research. 2025 Jan;211:107552. Epub 2024 Dec 16. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2024.107552


Barry A, Price T, Schmidt M. Bulk Proteomics (DIA-MS) of Human Dorsal Root Ganglion v1 2024. doi: 10.17504/protocols.io.j8nlk8j56l5r/v1

Urbauer E, Aguanno D, Mindermann N, Omer H, Metwaly A, Krammel T et al. Mitochondrial perturbation in the intestine causes microbiota-dependent injury and gene signatures discriminative of inflammatory disease. Cell Host & Microbe. 2024 Aug 14;32(8):1347-1364.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.06.013

Barry A, Schmidt M, Price T. Bulk proteomics of naive human dorsal root ganglion 2024. doi: 10.26275/z7uy-kuif

Barry A, Sondermann JR, Lesnak J, Xian F, Franco-Enzástiga Ú, O’Brien J et al. Multi-omic integration with human DRG proteomics highlights TNFα signalling as a relevant sexually dimorphic pathway. bioRxiv. 2024. doi: 10.1101/2024.12.06.626968

Gómez-Varela D, Xian F, Grundtner S, Sondermann JR, Carta G, Schmidt M. Increasing taxonomic and functional characterization of host-microbiome interactions by DIA-PASEF metaproteomics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2023 Oct;14:1258703. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1258703

Segelcke D, van der Burgt M, Kappert C, Schmidt Garcia D, Sondermann JR, Bigalke S et al. Phenotype- and species-specific skin proteomic signatures for incision-induced pain in humans and mice. British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA). 2023 Mar;130(3):331-342. Epub 2023 Jan 5. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2022.10.040


Schmidt M, Sondermann JR, Gomez-Varela D, Çubuk C, Millet Q, Lewis MJ et al. Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling of NaV1.8-expressing mouse nociceptors. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience. 2022 Oct 11;15:1002842. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2022.1002842

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Scientific Center for Neuropathic Pain AACHEN SCNAACHEN

Schmidt, M. (Keynote speaker)

2 Sept 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Talk: Pain Proteomics - Congress of the Spanish Pain Society

Schmidt, M. (Speaker)

30 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Talk: Congress of the Austrian Society of Pain

Schmidt, M. (Speaker)

22 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Talk: The Pain Mechanisms and Therapeutics Conference 2024: Pain Proteomics – systems biology of chronic pain

Schmidt, M. (Speaker)

17 May 202422 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Nociceptor sensitization by neuro-immune interactions

Schmidt, M. (Speaker)

21 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Pain Proteomics – from the skin to the metaproteome

Schmidt, M. (Speaker)

20 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The protein landscape of chronic pain

Schmidt, M. (Invited speaker)

1 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Talk: The Pain Mechanisms and Therapeutics Conference 2022

Schmidt, M. (Invited speaker)

3 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From TRP channels to systems biology of chronic pain

Schmidt, M. (Invited speaker)

12 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Systems Biology to decipher Chronic Pain

Schmidt, M. (Invited speaker)

25 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


TRP channel meeting Leuven 2021

Schmidt, M. (Invited speaker)

17 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Inflammation, Proteomics and Chronic Pain

Schmidt, M. (Invited speaker)

10 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Chronic Pain, Proteomics and Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Schmidt, M. (Invited speaker)

11 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


PainSTRIKE: Insights into human DRG via multiomics

Schmidt, M. (Project Lead)

1/06/2631/05/29

Project: Research funding


Anti-Infectives Drug Discovery

Rollinger, J. M. (Project Lead), Dailey, L. A. (Co-Lead), Orts, J. (Co-Lead), Böttcher, T. (Co-Lead), Schmidt, M. (Co-Lead), Rademacher, C. J. H. (Co-Lead), Schützenmeister, N. (Co-Lead), Zotchev, S. (Co-Lead), Kirchmair, J. (Co-Lead) & Ortmayr, K. (Co-Lead)

1/07/2531/01/30

Project: Research funding


ProPEL: A Protein-based Pain Exploration Lens

Schmidt, M. (Project Lead)

1/04/2530/11/27

Project: Research funding


The role of Tmem160 at the onset of pain after nerve injury

Schmidt, M. (Project Lead)

11/10/2210/10/25

Project: Research funding


Pediatric chronic pain - proteome-based systems biology

Schmidt, M. (Project Lead)

15/03/2214/09/25

Project: Research funding


Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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1090 Wien
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