1. Johannes Winkler is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Vienna (Austria). He received his MPharm and PhD from the University of Vienna. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universities of Bern and Zurich (Switzerland), he returned to Vienna (Austria) in 2008. He is an author of more than 15 publications on oligonucleotide properties and therapeutic development. He is also principal investigator of several related independent and collaborative research projects.