Martina Rauner studied biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Austria from 2002-2006. After completing her PhD at the Department of Pathophysiology at the Medical University of Vienna in 2008, she received the ECTS/AMGEN bone research fellowship and joined the group of Professor Lorenz Hofbauer in Dresden, Germany to study mechanisms of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. Since then she has received several awards for her work in the field of bone biology and became a member of the ECTS New Investigator Committee in 2011. Currently, she is establishing her own group in the field of osteoimmunology, where she investigates interactions of the RANKL/OPG and Wnt signaling pathways in inflammatory bone diseases.