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

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"Unsere Forschung hat durch die momentane Pandemie stark an Aktualität gewonnen. Wir untersuchen auf der einen Seite mit Computermethoden das mögliche Design von Wirkstoffen, auf der anderen Seite...

PhD Corner
 

Wishing you a very happy Holiday Season and a wonderful New Year!

 

PhD Corner
 

Researcher Monika Malik from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and doctoral student of VDS PhaNuSpo has received the L'ORÉAL Austria fellowship "For Women in Science".

Pharmacist Monika Malik...

PhD Corner
 

Celebration of 10years of MolTag Doctoral Program (20 min video):

The last cohort of MolTag students of the FWF-funded Doctoral Program "Molecular Drug Targets" explain and illustrate their work and...

Research
 

A team at the Department for Pharmaceutical Sciences developed a therapy concept that could stop tumor growth.

Publication (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omto.2021.09.005): Billerhart M, Schönhofer M,...

PhD Corner
 

We are highly delighted to share some impressions from our first get-together for all graduate students on 02 September 2021 – after a long period of strict social-distancing due to Covid-19...

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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2 Faculties and 3 doctoral programmes
45 PIs/Professors