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Valentina BIASIN
Priv.-Doz.in, MSc PhD

Testosterone as a prognostic and mechanistic driver of sex differences in progressive pulmonary fibrosis

Hear of Research Unit “Metabolic and hormonal influences on the fate of mesenchymal cells in chronic lung diseases”, Division of Physiology and Pathophysiology
Medical University of Graz, Neue Stiftingtalstraße 6, 8010 Graz
Phone: +43-316-385 72911, ✉ e-mail

WWW: Forschungsportal Med Uni Graz
ORCID: 0000-0002-6277-1463
PubMed: PubMed (nih.gov)

• Profile     • Curriculum vitae     • Publications    
Education:
2025 Habilitation in Physiology and Pathophysiology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
2023 Open Innovation Course, Harvard Business School, USA
2010 –2014 PhD thesis at the Medical University of Graz – Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria
2008 –2010 Master Degree in Medical Biotechnology at the University of Trieste, Italy
Positions:
2025 – present 1st Deputy Speaker of Division of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
2024 – present Associate Faculty Member at the Medical University of Graz, Austria
2023 Research Unit Leader of Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria
2022 – present Head of the research unit "Metabolic and hormonal influences on the fate of mesenchymal cells in chronic lung diseases"
2022 – present Senior Scientist at the Division of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
2019 – 2021 Post-Doctoral trainee, Endocrinology and Diabetology Department, Medical University of Graz, Austria
2015 – 2018 Post-Doctoral trainee, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Career breaks:
2018 – 2019 1st career break: maternity leave
2021 – 2022 2nd career break: maternity leave
Significant research achievements and awards (10 most important):
  • Project funding: INHalation of ALOXistatin against IPF – INALOX. ERDERA's first Joint Transnational Call (JTC 2025) (280,000 €; 2025 – 2028)
  • Project funding: European Respiratory Society Long Term Fellowship at Prof. Uroš Maver Laboratory (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maribor) – Development of an advanced in vitro lung model for pulmonary fibrosis research (2026 – 2027).
  • Project funding: The influence of adipsin in lung fibroblasts phenotype. Stadt Graz funding FIF-A 16-1130/2024-0001t-2025 (9,000 €)
  • Leader of Working Group 1 on the COST-EU Action Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV CA24168) (2025 – 2028)
  • Project funding: SCIENCE4ALL – Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Implementation (PPIE) CALL 2020 – 2021 (60,000 €; 2021 – 2023)
  • Project funding: Hertha Firnberg Program – Austrian Science Fund (FWF) – Role of sclerostin in pulmonary hypertension (270,000 €; 2019)
  • Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD), Bergen, Norway, Best Poster Prize (PhD Student: Pamela Waked)
  • DACH Symposium Pulmonale Hypertonie, 2015: 1st Prize Best Poster
  • Michael Neumann Prize 2015, Outstanding Publication
  • American Thoracic Society Travel Grant 2013, Philadelphia, USA: ATS Conference

04.04.2026 CRONIC-PPF · Doctoral Programme “Clinical & Research Oriented Network for Innovative Classification of Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis”