Dr Ogris is a Professor for Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Vienna. He studied Biotechnology and graduated from the University of Live Sciences in Vienna. After a Postdoctoral stay at the CRC Institute of Cancer Research, University of Birmingham/UK, he joined the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich as a work group leader with a research focus on cancer gene therapy. In 2013, he was appointed as a full professor at the University Vienna, where he founded and heads the MMCT lab. The lab has a strong focus on the development of macromolecular formulations for targeted drug and nucleic acid based therapies and uses multimodal imaging to study their pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.