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

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...

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...

Latest publications


Luo, Xianjin ; Germer, Janin ; Burghardt, Tobias et al. / Dual pH-responsive CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein xenopeptide complexes for genome editing. In: European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 2025 ; Vol. 205. pp. 106983.

Li, Encan ; Boujeddaine, Najla ; Houtman, Marien J.C. et al. / Development of new Kir2.1 channel openers from propafenone analogues. In: British Journal of Pharmacology. 2025 ; Vol. 182, No. 3. pp. 633-650.

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