MedUni Vienna Annual Report 2023
Building towards the medicine of the future
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” True to this quote from Abraham Lincoln, we constantly live up to our responsibility to provide the best possible conditions for internationally competitive research, teaching and patient care – not just
now, but also in the future. The various construction projects that moved from the planning to the implementation stage in 2023 represent a key milestone in our university’s history that will have a lasting influence on the treatment we provide to patients.
The largest development project at any of Austria’s universities at present is MedUni Campus Mariannengasse. In the future, thousands of researchers and students will be based at this state-of-the-art campus, working at the leading edge of medical expertise and developing groundbreaking solutions.The centrepiece of our infrastructure development drive is the Eric Kandel Institute – Center for Precision Medicine. Here, the focus is on research into fundamental molecular mechanisms, which will enable
the development of personalised diagnostics, therapies and preventive measures. Meanwhile, the Center for Translational Medicine will enable us to achieve our objective of integrating research findings into clinical practice quickly and effectively for the good of the patients we look after. Bundling expertise from several leading universities at the
Ignaz Semmelweis Institute for Infection Research is intended to put us in a position to overcome the challenges that lie ahead in the field of infectious diseases.