• Speakers: Thierry Langer and Judith Maria Rollinger

The pharmaceutical sciences at the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna have great expertise regarding modern research into, and development of, active substances. This expertise is being maintained and further expanded in cooperation with national and international academic institutions, as well as life science enterprises. Based on the development and application of innovative platform technologies, the aim here is early-stage research and the development of pharmaceutical drugs in the areas of chemotherapeutics, neuroscience and metabolic disease, and encompasses fields such as computational molecular design, research into natural products, identification of molecular modes of action, molecular imaging, formulation, quality control, nanomedicine and clinical pharmacy. The integration of this research area into the Faculty of Life Sciences with its well-established key research areas (biomolecules for a healthy lifespan, computational life sciences, and cognition, behaviour and neuroscience) places it at the central interface between chemistry, molecular biology (Max Perutz Labs) and medicine.