The project focuses on cellular senescence in the context of skin and wound healing. By investigating both early- and late-onset senescence, the research aims to better understand how these processes contribute to tissue repair.

The project is funded as an FWF (Austrian Science Fund) Stand-Alone grant within the call on aging research and is co-funded by the Herzfelder Foundation. It will run from May 2026 to April 2029 and is supported by substantial competitive funding. Bringing together expertise in biology, clinical medicine, and computational sciences, the research is conducted at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology in collaboration with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.

We wish the team every success with this exciting new project!