Mission Statement

This doctoral programme intends to provide an internationally competitive scientific training of doctoral students in innovative pharmaceutical, nutritional and sport research.

The school wants to attract motivated students and to guide them towards scientific excellence and independence in a truly unique and dynamic multi-as well as interdisciplinary environment to finally become well-educated, open-minded and responsible graduates. The cohorts trained and supported by the VDS PhaNuSpo are part of the vibrant research environment at the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Centre for Sport Science and University Sports of the University of Vienna.

Your Benefits

  • Co-supervision and mentoring from at least two experts in your field.
  • Low hierarchies and an open door policy.
  • Interdisciplinary exchange in the form of joint courses, seminars, retreats and social events.
  • Additional financial support e.g. in the form of completion or mobility grants.
  • A strong student voice.
  • Dedicated administrative support.

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Lecture
 

Jean-Luc Coll, PhD, from the University of Grenoble Alpes in France, will give a presentation on "Nanotheranostic approaches: photons can help for diagnostics and therapy of cancer", 16:45–17:45 on 15...
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Travel report
 

Jakob Schmolz, PhD candidate in Pharmaceutical Sciences: Congratulations on winning the poster award at your first presentation at an international conference (the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society...
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Research
 

Congratulations to Amir Pasokh, our PhD candidate in Pharmaceutical Sciences, who is first author of a new paper in Pharmacological Research entitled "Axonal degeneration in hemorrhagic stroke: a...
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Defence
 

Thesis title: 2D and 3D cultures of stem cell-derived cardiac cells on patterned cell culture surfaces for cardiotox studies.

Date & time: Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 17:00 CET.
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Defence
 

Thesis title: Toxicity Predictions of Biological Drugs.

Date & time: Friday, 19 September 2025, 08:30 CET.
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Travel report
 

Our PhD candidate Tibor Stöffel (Nutritional Sciences) travelled to Zurich, Switzerland, to attend the Computational Psychiatry Course organised by the Translational Neuromodeling Unit at the...
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Latest publications

Dumphart, Bernhard ; Slijepcevic , D. ; Unglaube, F. et al. / The effect of inaccurate initial contact events on kinematics in healthy and pathological gait. In: Gait & Posture. 2026.
Staufer, Theresa ; Kopatz, Verena ; Pradel, Alice et al. / Biodistribution of nanoplastics in mice : advancing analytical techniques using metal-doped plastics. In: Communications Biology. 2025 ; Vol. 8, No. 1.
Benčurová, Katarína ; Balber, Theresa ; Weissenböck, Victoria et al. / Preclinical evaluation of the potential PARP-imaging probe [carbonyl-11C]DPQ. In: EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry. 2025 ; Vol. 10, No. 1. pp. 1.
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2 Faculties and 3 doctoral programmes
45 PIs/Professors