The AI4Health project, a joint initiative by Robimo GmbH, spin-off of the University of Vienna, and the Pharmacoinformatics Research Group led by our PI Gerhard Ecker, was named one of the top three finalists in the Health category of this year’s MERCUR Innovation Award.
Our PI Sabine Glasl-Tazreiter talks about "false-friends" in the world of plants - they may look alike, but can be dangerously misleading. The podcast and article are in German.
Do (hobby) athletes need nutritional supplements? PI Oliver Neubauer talks about nutritional supplements in sport - do they really help, and when are they actually useful? The 'Kurier' article is in German.
We want drugs to have an increasingly specific effect. Targeted drug delivery is one promising route – it involves the targeted release of active ingredients at their destination in order to minimize side effects. A Vienna-based research team has developed a method that enables them to precisely...
In this podcast episode, Lan, Andrea and Shara, PhD candidates in Pharmaceutical Sciences, talk about the challenges of doing a PhD abroad. They talk about cultural differences, language barriers, missing their families, making new friends and more! Tune in to hear their insights, the seen and...
Meet our amazing PhDs, PIs and other incredible scientists, who took part in the Women in Science campain at the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna!
Sie sind im Meersalz, im Honig, im Mineralwasser, in Teebeuteln — winzig kleine Plastikpartikel. Jede Woche nehmen wir, ohne es zu merken, bis zu fünf Gramm Mikro- und Nanoplastik in uns auf. Das ist so, als würden wir jede Woche eine ganze Kreditkarte essen! Aber mit welchen...
From drug development to diagnostics and pain management: Medicine has long catered to the needs of the ‘middle-aged Caucasian man’. How aware is medical research today of gender-based inequality? We asked pain researcher Manuela Schmidt and medical ethicist Magdalena Eitenberger.
Chronic pain is a complex disease that still lacks effective treatment. We visited the lab of Manuela Schmidt and David Gómez Varela from the University of Vienna who aim to change this using cutting-edge technologies and approaches in proteome research.
