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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 News

Defence
 

Thesis title: New formulation approaches to improve intratympanic inner ear drug delivery.

Venue: Seminarraum 2E411 at the Pharmaziezentrum (UZA II) der Universität Wien, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, 1090...

Calls & Opportunities
 

Are you looking for a job with flexible hours right at your university, UZA2?

Apply now and send a short letter of motivation (1 page) and your CV by email to isolde.prommer@univie.ac.at the latest...

Travel report
 

Our PhD students in Sport Science, Elias Wallnöfer and Willi Koller, participated at the prestigious OpenSim+ Advanced Workshop in March 20204 at Stanford University, California, USA.

Calls & Opportunities
 

This event series from May to September offers a supportive space for female innovators to advance the dissemination and impact of their research. Join a supportive community dedicated to fostering...

Calls & Opportunities
 

The research group of Prof. Ina Bergheim, Molecular Nutritional Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences is looking for support of interdisciplinary research projects in the thematic field of...

Calls & Opportunities
 

As a university assistant prae doc you will strengthen the ANTIOX working group of Prof. Karl-Heinz Wagner. Together with PostDocs you will work on human studies, in particular the Shift2Health...

Latest publications


Bragagna, Laura ; Polak, Christina ; Schütz, Lisa et al. / DNA damage and oxidative stress biomarkers in healthy male volunteers after a repeated bolus and continuous glucose infusion. Abstracts of the 52nd EEMGS & 15th ICAW Meeting: 52nd European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS) & 15th International Comet Assay Workshops (ICAW) meeting. editor / Marko Geric ; Goran Gajski. Vol. 75 2025. pp. 117-117

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