Fabian HAMMERLE, Mag.pharm, PhD

Research interests 

• Isolation and structure elucidation of compounds from different natural sources
• Secondary metabolites from fungi with photoactivated anticancer activity
• Ecological function and pharmacological potential of fungal pigments
• Identification of novel larvicides by combining chromatographic separation techniques with sophisticated mass spectrometry methods (UHPLC-HRMS/MS + feature-based molecular networking)

Projects

• 2019-2022: Project member | Lichtaktivierte Verteidigungsstrategien in Pilzen / Photo-activated defense strategies in fungi – an overlooked source for new photo-pharmaceuticals? (FWF P31915)
• 2022-2024: Project leader | AMPlify - Natural Products for Anti-Malaria Photodynamic Therapy (TWF)

• 2023-2025: Project member | UVISION - Exploring the potential of secondary metabolites derived from marine resources for UV-protection of the human eye (WEAVE International Project, FWF I9122)

Awards

• Award of Excellence 2023 of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung) for an excellent dissertation.
• MDPI Separations Young Scientist Session Award at the 33rd International Symposium on Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis (PBA 2023, Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy) for the oral presentation entitled "Sophisticated mass spectrometry-based techniques for the identification of novel mycosporine-like amino acids in marine organisms".
• Hypo Tirol Bank Dissertation Award 2023 of the Hypo Tirol Bank AG for an exceptional PhD thesis.
• Würdigungspreis 2019 of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung) for an outstanding diploma thesis.
• Performance-based scholarships of the University of Innsbruck for the academic years 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016 and 2016/2017.