Christopher Gerner studied biochemistry at the University of Vienna. After his post-doc in the labs of Rolf Schulte-Hermann, University of Vienna and Seamus Martin, Trinity College Dublin, he became Associate Professor at the Medical University of Vienna in 2003, then heading a clinical proteomics laboratory. 2012 he became full professor for bioanalytics at the University of Vienna. He is now heading the Joint Metabolome Facility, focusing on post-genomic analysis of clinical samples. Thus, he is characterizing patho-mechanisms mainly governed by biochemical processes such as hypoxia, oxidative stress or metabolic shortcomings. In his lab, several methods supporting analysis of humans in vivo (e.g., metabolomics based on finger sweat analysis) and the analysis of human or animal model-derived materials with regard to proteins, lipids and metabolites are well established. Corroborated by phospho-proteomics analyses focusing on short-term effects, this toolbox proves highly versatile for the investigation of drug effects and disease mechanisms.