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.

View our promotion video

 News

Travel report
 

Read more about Namarig's experiences at the Skin & Formulation, 6th Symposium "Current challenges in skin formulation" in Nantes, France. The symposium was organised by the International Society of...

Award/ Grant Winners
 

Willi Koller has been honored with this year's "Best Paper Award". As a result of this recognition, he is now invited to submit the complete paper related to his presentation for publication in the...

Research
 

New original research from our Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology (working group Schmidt) has been released. The paper by Gomez-Varela et. al.: "Increasing taxonomic and functional...

Award/ Grant Winners
 

Congratulations to Sabrina Grundtner (PhD student, laboratory of Manuela Schmidt) for being awarded the "Best Oral Poster Communication"-Prize at the 13th Congress of the European Pain Federation EFIC...

Grants
 

The programme offers PhD students financial support for short stays at European universities, research institutions or companies.

Application deadline on 21 November 2023

Q&A session on 7 November...

Defence
 

"Sport Climbing with Parkinson's Disease and its Impacts on the Quality of Life"

Latest publications


Chavan, Rohit ; Lefèbre, Jonathan ; Jochová, Kateřina et al. / Fucosyl glycosides for DC-SIGN targeting : Fucosylation strategies, synthesis and binding studies of model compounds. In: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 2025 ; Vol. 123. pp. 118164.

Yazdi, Mina ; Burghardt, Tobias ; Seidl, Johanna et al. / Evolution of Lipo-Xenopeptide Carriers for siRNA Delivery : Interplay of Stabilizing Subunits. In: Bioconjugate Chemistry. 2025 ; Vol. 36, No. 4. pp. 846-858.

  • More publications here.
2 Faculties and 3 doctoral programmes
45 PIs/Professors