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

Event
 

Does your research data management fail to spark joy? Do you wish that your research data management did spark joy? Do you like snacks? The data stewards from CeMESS and the Faculty of Life Sciences...

Defence
 

PhD thesis: Knock-out-validated Proteomic Characterization of the Dopamine Transporter Interactome by Mass Spectrometry and its Role in the Dopaminergic System

Date: 20 December 2023, 11:00 CET

Event
 

Learn techniques for validating your ideas by prototyping your solutions and testing them. You will get a basic understanding how to gain insights about desirability of customers, as well as the...

Travel report
 

Read more about Sabrina's experiences at the 13th Congress of the European Pain Federation EFIC in Budapest, Hungary. It is the largest international congress on the subject of pain.

Defence
 

PhD thesis: The association of ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption and dietary advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) intake with the risk of obesity, cancer, and multimorbidity

Research
 

(Article and Video in German)

Evidence that highly processed foods are linked to multiple health risks is mounting and calls for labelling are growing louder. In this article and video, PhaNuSpo PhD...

Latest publications


Luo, Xianjin ; Germer, Janin ; Burghardt, Tobias et al. / Dual pH-responsive CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein xenopeptide complexes for genome editing. In: European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 2025 ; Vol. 205. pp. 106983.

Li, Encan ; Boujeddaine, Najla ; Houtman, Marien J.C. et al. / Development of new Kir2.1 channel openers from propafenone analogues. In: British Journal of Pharmacology. 2025 ; Vol. 182, No. 3. pp. 633-650.

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