Katharina Steinegger

Katharina Steinegger (PhD Student)

katharina.steinegger@cup.

Since October 2022 PhD student, LMU Munich
2022 Board License as a Pharmacist
2021 - 2022 Pharmacy Resident, Coriolis Pharma Research GmbH, Martinsried
2021 Pharmacy Resident, Retail Pharmacy
2017 – 2021 Pharmacy School, Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg

Sieber-Schäfer F, Binder J, Münchrath T, Steinegger KM, Jiang M, Winkeljann B, Friess W, Merkel, O.M.*: From Bits to Bonds: High-Throughput Virtual Screening of Ribonucleic Acid Nanocarriers Using a Combinatorial Approach of Machine Learning and Molecular Dynamics. 
J Am Chem Soc. 2025; 147(49):44903-44915. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5c12694.

Katharina M Steinegger, Olivia M. Merkel*, How can simulations aid our understanding of nanoparticle-mediated siRNA delivery?
Therapeutic Delivery 2025, https://doi.org/10.1080/20415990.2025.2505397, Invited Editorial *Corresponding Author

Katharina M Steinegger, Lars Allmendinger, Sebastian Sturm, Felix Sieber-Schäfer, Adrian PE Kromer, Knut Müller-Caspary, Benjamin Winkeljann, Olivia M Merkel*: Molecular Dynamics Simulations Elucidate the Molecular Organization of Poly(beta-amino ester) Based Polyplexes for siRNA Delivery
Nano Letters 2024: doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c04291

Jonas Binder, Joshua Winkeljann, Katharina Steinegger, Lara Trnovec, Daria Orekhova, Jonas Zähringer, Andreas Hörner, Valentin Fell, Philip Tinnefeld, Benjamin Winkeljann, Wolfgang Frieß, Olivia M Merkel, Olivia M Merkel*: Pulmonary siRNA Delivery with Sophisticated Amphiphilic Poly(Spermine Acrylamides) for the Treatment of Lung Fibrosis. Closing the Gap between Experiment and Simulation─ A Holistic Study on the Complexation of Small Interfering RNAs with Polyethylenimine.
Molecular Pharmaceutics 2024, doi:10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.3c00747