Organfailure, Replacement and Transplantation (POET) Medical University of Vienna

Overview

What you'll learn

• The primary aim of the Organfailure,  Replacement and Transplantation (POET) programme at Medical University of Vienna is to educate scientists who are able to independently implement clinical trials, projects in translational science, and basic scientific research in the field of organ failure, -replacement, and transplantation medicine.
• This aim is achieved, besides thematic diversity, by a broad spectrum of techniques offered (see the table of applied techniques). The graduates from this programme will hence be able to take root in the most different sectors (e.g. medical schools, academic and industrial laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotech technological enterprises, and production and distribution of scientific devices).

• The scientific emphasis is put on the research into mechanisms leading to organ damage and organ-recovery, optimization of organ-replacement therapy (bridging, dialysis and transplantation), cytoprotective therapy, immunosuppressive therapy as well as immunologic transplantation-tolerance and its establishment. Due to these focuses, one will find a broad range of interdisciplinary scientific work within the POeT-programme, involving clinical research, basic research and research into selected areas of basic sciences.
• MedUni Vienna offers fully-funded doctoral studies in interdisciplinary programs, including Medical Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Immunology, Neurosciences, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Malignant Diseases, (RNA, vascular, infectious) Biology, Molecular Signalling or Mechanisms of Cell Biology, Cellular Homeostasis, Public Health and Medical Informatics. Research activities range from basic to clinical research. The University offers state-of-the-art research facilities and is directly linked to one of the largest hospitals in Europe