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

Public presentation
 

The next public presentations of PhD thesis projects will be held online on Thursday 02 June 2022, 9:00 - 13:30 CET. Online Moodle BBB...

Research
 

The team around PhaNuSpo-PI Prof. Judith M. Rollinger from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Division of Pharmacognosy) is starting a joint project in cooperation with the Schwabe Group.

Summer School
 

Paris - Oslo - Berlin. Visit your favorite summerschool and discuss topics like global health, climate crisis, sustainability, or democracy. Click here for further information.

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...

Latest publications


Chavan, Rohit ; Lefèbre, Jonathan ; Jochová, Kateřina et al. / Fucosyl glycosides for DC-SIGN targeting : Fucosylation strategies, synthesis and binding studies of model compounds. In: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 2025 ; Vol. 123. pp. 118164.

Yazdi, Mina ; Burghardt, Tobias ; Seidl, Johanna et al. / Evolution of Lipo-Xenopeptide Carriers for siRNA Delivery : Interplay of Stabilizing Subunits. In: Bioconjugate Chemistry. 2025 ; Vol. 36, No. 4. pp. 846-858.

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