Super-smart Lower Austrian will support the radiochemistry team at Yale University Medical Center in the US from November. – The 23-year-old chemist wants to improve cancer therapies.
Austria has so many talents! And a talent is even more beautiful if you want to save people’s lives with it. As in the case of 23-year-old Lena Wadsak from Lower Austria. The biography of the young woman is remarkable: she completed her master’s degree in chemistry at the University of Vienna with an average grade of 1.0. The resident of Baden has received several awards and grants, including the worldwide Marie Curie Fellowship from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Her field of expertise: radiochemistry and radiopharmacy.
The uncle aroused interest
“It is a small area where there is still great potential to develop ourselves further and make a difference,” Lena tells “Krone”. Especially in the field of cancer diagnostics and cancer therapy. The eldest of four siblings was inspired by her university professor Verena Pichler and her uncle Wolfgang Wadsak, a top specialist in the field of radiotherapy for cancer.
“My interest was sparked when my uncle told me about it when I was 13.” Since then, Lena has immersed herself in professional literature and has read all the publications on the subject online: “I am curious and I am always looking for ways to expand my knowledge. knowledge,” she says and has. From November, there will also be a particularly prestigious opportunity. The chemist, who plays the cello and dances ballet in her spare time, has been hired by the elite American university Yale.
Future at MedUni Vienna?
After a video conference with the professor at the local “School of Medicine” he was so interested in the Lower Austrian that he even created a special position for Lena Wadsak in the radiopharmaceutical research team there. She will work for a year in New Haven, Connecticut: “My goal is to produce new radiopharmaceuticals to better understand and combat diseases such as cancer.”
Radioactivity is associated with negative properties, but: “It also has positive benefits, especially in medicine.” In order to be successful in this field, Lena wants to do additional pharmaceutical training at ETH Zurich in Yale, and then – if possible – do further training. continues her research at MedUni Vienna at the Vienna General Hospital.
Source: Krone
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