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

Ukraine
 

ÖAW - JESH-Ukraine emergency call

The aim of the special call JESH-Ukraine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is to support Ukrainian scientists who had/have to leave their country in temporarily carrying out a scientific project at...

Ukraine
 

The University of Vienna stands with the Ukrainian people in their struggle for freedom and democracy. We pay respect to all those people in the Russian Federation who oppose the criminal policies of...

Awards
 

To show the diversity of research at the Faculty of Life Sciences, the faculty is looking for extraordinary and exciting snapshots of research life!

The deadline for participating in the photo...

Research
 

Hanna K. Fischer and Manuela Schmidt from the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, in collaboration with researchers from Germany, demonstrate a novel functional role of the transmembrane protein...

Research
 

How can we maintain health during aging? "My research could be the key", says Agnes Draxler from the Vienna Doctoral School of Phamarceutical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences (PhaNuSpo). The video...

PhD Corner
 

The next public presentations of PhD projects will be held online on Thursday 03 March 2022, 9:00-13:00 CET

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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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