Patricia Hrasnova is a PhD student at the LBI-NVPM, where her research is embedded within a larger scientific effort directed at translating the basic biology of extracellular vesicles into therapeutic applications and carried out in close collaboration between the LBI-NVPM at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg and the Salzburg University Hospital, Department of Pediatrics. Her work focuses on investigating the immunomodulatory and tissue regenerative activity of human milk-derived extracellular vesicles on the gastrointestinal tract to develop potential therapies for neonatal diseases.

She studied Cell and Molecular Biology at Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, where she worked on enzymatic pathways and their use for therapeutic applications for neurological diseases aimed at further drug design and HTS.  She subsequently completed her Master’s degree at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, where her research focused on direct protein–protein interactions of human milk proteins and derived peptides.

Supervisors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Daniel Weghuber, Univ.-Prof. Dr.med.univ Nadja Haiden, Univ.Prof. Dr. Nicole Meisner-Kober