The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences is part of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna and aims to be recognised nationally and internationally as a leader in pharmaceutical research and education. We promote the discovery, development, and appropriate use of medications for the welfare and the safety of the public.
The range of topics in Pharmaceutical Sciences aims at the identification and the characterisation of both new biologically active natural products and synthetic drugs and at understanding their interactions with human targets on a molecular level using in silico, in vitro, and in vivo models.
Based on this knowledge, we investigate new lead compounds and disease-related targets and develop delivery systems for pharmaceutical active ingredients.
On Wednesday, October 21 at 11:30 (HS 6), we invite you to an exciting lecture by Prof.Dr. Antti Poso, School of Pharmacy, Univ. of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
Micael Silva has been awarded an FWF ESPRIT Fellowship for his project on NMR-guided chemical chaperones for protein misfolding, which he will carry out in the Bio NMR group of Julien Orts.
On October 15, 11:30 (HS 4), we invite you to an exciting lecture by Dr. Rainer E. Martin, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
We are kicking off the pharmacy lecture series for the 2026/2027 winter semester with an exciting lecture: on October 8 at 11:30 a.m. in Lecture Hall 4, presented by Dip.Ing. Rudolf Marchart from the company WALDLAND (Friedersbach, Austria).
We are pleased to welcome Elke Heiss and Christoph Rademacher as new Vice Heads. They succeed Verena Dirsch and Lea Ann Dailey, respectively. We thank their predecessors for their dedicated service and wish them every success in their new roles.
Look forward to our exciting lectures in the winter semester; you can find the full program on the poster as well as under "Lectures". Start is October 8, 11:30, HS 4.
The four divisions of the Department
Key Research Areas, Excellence and Collaborative Projects, List of Publications
Department Meeting (Lecture Series) & Announcements
Study Programmes and Education
Location and Entrances
Management and staff
Key figures of the Department in 2025
9 University Professors (44% ♀),
9 Associate Professors (33% ♀),
7 Tenure Tracks (71% ♀)
2,232 BSc and MSc Students (75 % ♀)
94 PhD Students (53 % ♀)
65 different countries, representing students from all over the world
82% published in Q1 journals
