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

PhD Corner
 

Congratulations to PhaNuSpo's doctoral/PhD students Rebeka Fejes (Nutritional Sciences, Research Platform Active Aging) and Christopher Mihajlovic (Sport Science) for their 3rd places in the photo...

Public presentation
 

We are happy to announce the next dates of the Public presentation of the doctoral thesis project of our students. Save the dates!

:: Thursday 25 November 2021

:: Thursday 03 March 2022

:: Thursday...

PhD Corner
 

With the DOC scholarship, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) supports highly qualified doctoral candidates from all fields of research.

We congratulate particularly this year's scholarship holder...

Research
 

In Bestform | 10.06.2021 | in German

Manche Menschen sind morgens topfit, andere schlafen lieber lange aus. Der Sportmediziner Jürgen Scharhag von der Universität Wien empfiehlt, sich beim Training...

Research
 

Forschungsnewsletter 09. Juni 2021

Ein internationales Forscher*innenteam untersucht im EU-Projekt "Imptox", welche Rolle Mikro- und Nanoplastik für die menschliche Gesundheit spielen – der...

Research
 

The REsolution consortium studies how differences in the genetic makeup of so-called transporter genes, encoding proteins that allow molecules to pass cellular membranes, may account for those...

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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