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

Award/ Grant Winners
 

On the occasion of the 69th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA), held virtually this year, Julia Langeder was awarded with...

PhD Corner
 

New doctoral candidates get support to orientate themselves at the University of Vienna. They will receive the relevant information concerning the doctorate, make first contacts with established...

Research
 

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences becomes a member of Green Labs Austria. The initiative wants to connect labs in Austria to reduce our carbon footprint.

Founded in spring 2020 by students...

Research
 

Weltweit werden derzeit Menschen gegen den Corona-Auslöser, das SARS-CoV-2-Virus, geimpft. Wie lange die entwickelten Vakzine wirksam sind, ob sie auch gegen Mutanten helfen und ob sie sowohl bei...

Research
 

The project leader Sergey Zotchev as well as Olga Sekurova and PhD student Anna Stich (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences), and Martin Zehl (Mass Spectrometry Centre of the University of Vienna)...

Research
 

Learn more about Nowra’s journey in the video “From Statelessness to Covid-19 Vaccine Development: Nowras’ story of perseverance” (United Nation (UNRWA)). Today he is a doctoral candidate of the...

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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