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
 

The Department of Communication offers trainings in science communication. The workshops are open for all PhD candidates, both employed and non-employed. Register now.

Travel report
 

Our PhD student Jiahui Huang (Pharmaceutical Sciences) had an amazing opportunity to spend a part of her summer semester as a guest researcher at the National Institutes of Health in the United States...

Travel report
 

Our PhD student Raphaela Staltner (Nutritional Sciences) attended the 58th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) in Barcelona, Spain.

Travel report
 

Our PhD student Runqing Ma (Sport Science) attended the 14th World Congress of Performance Analysis of Sport at the Middlesex University, UK.

Event
 

We cordially invite our PhaNuSpo members and alumni/ae to this year's PhaNuSpo Christmas Party!

Where & When: Aula am Campus, 5pm

Don't forget to register, we look forward to seeing you!

Media
 

Don't miss this fascinating discussion with Irem Duman, a PhD student in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Vienna, to find out how cutting-edge technology is is revolutionising drug...

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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