Our PI Verena Pichler was featured among other experts in a BBC article about the growing concern over microplastics in the human body. What do we know about these tiny plastic particles?
Watch this interview with Gerhard Ecker, where he talks about the role of AI in reducing the number of animal experiments, and predicting the side effects and toxicity. The video is a part of VITALITY project funded by Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
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...
