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A MedUni Vienna overview study reveals gender-specific differences in the diagnosis and pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in women and men.

Markus Schosserer, Research Group Leader at MedUni Vienna's Institute of Medical Genetics, receives an extensive research grant from the American Federation for Aging Research and the Hevolution Foundation for a project investigating ageing processes.

Every year, approximately 17.3 million people are currently dying of cardiovascular disease every year.

Children, adolescents and young adults who have or had cancer are supported by the international project EU-CAYAS-NET (sub-project of the EU4Health programme).

For several years, a complex microsurgical procedure called free flap surgery has been performed for head and neck cancer at the University Hospital Vienna and MedUni Vienna's Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases.

University , Medicine & Science Imaging biomarkers are considered to be particularly valuable tools in precision medicine, a future trend to which MedUni Vienna attaches great importance.

People of the MedUni Vienna Johannes Klopf and Anna Sotir from the Division of Vascular Surgery of the Department of General Surgery and Surgical Research Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna

Medicine & Science Since 2021, the eHealth Institute at FH JOANNEUM has been coordinating the EU Horizon 2020 project LETHE, which is endowed with six million euros.

Medicine & Science This year, the pollen count started about a month earlier than the long-term average; and with some force.

Medicine & Science Back pain is a widespread disease: it affects almost two million people in Austria.

University Increasing drought and lack of snow in winter, aridity and floods in summer: the climate crisis has taken on clear manifestations - also in terms of health. The urgency of the issue prompted MedUni Vienna to update the book "Climate Change and Health". The new edition was recently published under the title "Health in the Climate Crisis" and was presented yesterday as part of the "Medical University of Vienna Day".

Medicine & Science A research group led by Matthäus Fellinger from the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at MedUni Vienna investigated the impact of the COVID pandemic on the lives and treatment of people with schizophrenic psychosis.

Medicine & Science How would the pandemic in Austria have progressed if some decisions had been made differently - and above all, what can we do better in the future?

Medicine & Science A study by the Medical University of Vienna has investigated the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to address societal megatrends and analyzed its proposed solutions in dealing with these global challenges. Artificial intelligence can offer understandable insights into the complex and cross-cutting issues of megatrends, and how they could change and benefit in different areas if AI systems are deployed.

University , People of the MedUni Vienna The Transplantation Research Platform of the Medical University of Vienna has awarded two "Startup Grants" to support young scientists in the field of transplant research.

University Modern conditions for research into the prospects of personalised and digital medicine are being created across more than 6000 m² at the MedUni Campus AKH.

People of the MedUni Vienna The internationally renowned addiction expert Gabriele Fischer from the University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and the Centre for Public Health at MedUni

Medicine & Science A research group led by Paul Studenic from the Department of Internal Medicine III at MedUni Vienna has revalidated the remission criteria for rheumatoid arthritis and adapted the definition according to Boolean.

University , Medicine & Science MedUni Vienna awarded Ivo Rausch, Ewald Unger, Alejandra Valladares and Andreas Berg of the Centre for Medical Physics and Biomedical Technology of MedUni Vienna as Inventors of the Year 2022.

The Special Research Area (SFB) "Histone Deacetylases (HDACs) as Regulators of T-Cell-Mediated Immunity in Health and Disease", coordinated by MedUni Vienna, was extended for an additional four years at the most recent meeting of the FWF Board of Trustees. The research network led by Wilfried Ellmeier from MedUni Vienna's Centre for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology will thus be able to continue its successful path established in recent years.

Javier Martinez, research group leader at the joint Max Perutz Laboratories of MedUni Vienna and the University of Vienna, is coordinating the project "RNA@core: Molecular Mechanisms in RNA Biology", which has been awarded an extensive "doc.funds" grant by the Austrian Science Fund FWF.

MedUni Vienna's Department of Anaesthesia, General Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy is the first hospital in Austria to become a certified Data Partner with the EHDEN project.

The innovative "ExTrAct AML" project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, goes beyond established frontiers to investigate acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in children and adolescents. Individual patient profiles should provide early information on the causes of disease progression or treatment resistance - and how to take countermeasures in time.

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG is funding three MedUni Vienna projects as part of its "Spin-off Fellowships" program.

MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna are making a visible statement in protest against violence against women and girls once again in 2022 and are participating in UN Women's global "Orange the World" campaign.

A unanimous decision in the Vienna City Council today paved the way for the new Eric Kandel Institute - Center for Precision Medicine to be built.

In mid-November, MedUni Vienna and the University of Vienna appointed Tilman Kühn to the dual professorial chair in Public Health Nutrition (§98).

Thomas Vogl, research group leader at MedUni Vienna's Center for Cancer Research, has received a "Starting Grant" from the European Research Council (ERC) with funding of €1.65 million for five years.

Julia Walochnik, research group leader at the Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine at MedUni Vienna's Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, took up a professorship (§99 (4)) in infectiology at the beginning of November.

MedUni Vienna's Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research has been named a Centre of Excellence for Quantitative Digital Microscopy.

The ALLPreT project, an international research consortium to develop new approaches, tools, and assays that enable the safe introduction of novel foods, has now kicked off.