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Healthy Aging: Agnes Draxler explains her research

How can we maintain health during aging? "My research could be the key", says Agnes Draxler from the Vienna Doctoral School of Phamarceutical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences (PhaNuSpo). The video gives an insight into her research about "Healthy Aging".

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Image showing the principal investigators, Lea Ann Dailey and Ulrike Grienke of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Vienne, of the FWF funded project: "Inhalation of natural products against lung infections"

FWF-project: Inhalation of natural products against lung infections

A new FWF project has been granted to Lea Ann Dailey (PI, Div. of Pharm. Technology) and Ulrike Grienke (co-PI, Div. of Pharmacognosy). The aim of this project is to investigate natural products active against acute respiratory infections (e.g. SARS-CoV-2) regarding their suitability and efficacy...

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Discovery of a novel player contributing to the chronification of pain

Hanna K. Fischer and Manuela Schmidt from the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, in collaboration with researchers from Germany, demonstrate a novel functional role of the transmembrane protein (Tmem) 160 for nerve injury-induced neuropathic pain, a subtype of chronic pain caused by nerve...

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Photo of Professor Verena Dirsch, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, of the University of Vienna

FWF-project: The neolignan-derived rexinoid LRK071

A new FWF project has been granted to Verena M. Dirsch, head of the Molecular targets lab. This project aims to dissect the molecular mechanism of a natural product analog identified as a specific ligand of the nuclear receptor RXR (retinoid X receptor) with unique functional in vitro activities. We...

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Macrophages (grey) attacking tumor cells (green) © Manfred Ogris, Magdalena Billerhart, University of Vienna

Break through the tumor’s protective shield

A team at the Department for Pharmaceutical Sciences developed a therapy concept that could stop tumor growth.

Publication (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omto.2021.09.005): Billerhart M, Schönhofer M, Schueffl H, Polzer W, Pichler J, Decker S,Taschauer A, Maier J, Anton M, Eckmann S, Blaschek M,...

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Green Labs Austria: Together for sustainable 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 and postdocs of the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Vienna, the...

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"Mutator" gene as an alternative to chemical and physical mutagens for drug discovery

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) altered together with an international team of scientists DNA polymerase of the model strain...

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Ina Bergheim: Vorbeugung und Behandlung viraler Infekte mit Xanthohumol

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 milden wie ernsten Verläufen helfen, ist derzeit noch unklar. Einen neuen Behandlungsweg untersucht die...

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univie Blog: Nowras Rahhal "Fighting COVID-19 with 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 Vienna Doctoral School of Pharmaceutical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences.

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