Julia SCHOLDA, BSc MSc

Thesis title: The role of the lncRNA NORAD in the unfolded protein response.

Venue: Video Confernce (the link will be provided timely).

Date & time: Tuesday, 3 July 2025, 14:00 CET.

• Chair: Elke HEISS (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Supervisor: Florian KOPP (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Examiners: Albena DINKOVA-KOSTOVA (Professor in Chemical Biology, University of Dundee, UK), Gerd BENDAS (Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bonn, Germany), and Ulrich LÄCHELT (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)

Dott. mag. Veronica PILLARI

Thesis title: Modern Perspectives in Homologative Chemistry with or without External C1-Donor Agents.

Venue: Zoom conference (the link will be provided timely).

Date & time: Monday, 7 July 2025, 15:00 CET.

• Chair: Thierry LANGER (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Supervisors: Vittorio PACE (Department of Chemistry at the University of Turin, Italy; until 2023 at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Examiners: Christoforos G. KOKOTOS (Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Elena PETRICCI (Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia of the Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy), and Helmut SPREITZER (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences,  University of Vienna)

Thesis title: Natural product and natural product-inspired inhibitors of RAR-related orphan receptor gamma (RORy).

Venue: Video Conference (ID: 65739707943, Code: 750628).

Date & time: Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 08:00 CET.

• Chair: Jürgen KÖNIG (Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Supervisors: Verena DIRSCH and Elke HEISS (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Examiners: Mikio Nishizawa (Specially Appointed Professor at Ritsumeikan University Kusatsu, Japan), and Manfred OGRIS and Florian KOPP (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)

Katharina BURGER, BSc MSc

Thesis title: Die Regulierung der Alkoholdehydrogenase (ADH) in der Pathogenese der metabolischen Dysfunktions-assoziierten steatotischen Lebererkrankung (MASLD): Rolle von TNF(alpha).

Venue: Video Conference (ID: 62079279566, Code: 312454)

Date & time: Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 10:00 CET.

• Chair: Jürgen KÖNIG (Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Supervisor: Ina BERGHEIM (Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Examiners: André KLEINRIDDERS (Department for Molecular and Experimental Nutritional Medicine, University of Potsdam, Germany), Holger STEINBRENNER (Lehrstuhl für Nutrigenomik, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany), and Florian KOPP (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)