Infrastructure

This infrastructure can also be used for projects and cooperation by external researchers. The varied installations at the MedUni Vienna thus guarantee adhering to the strict guidelines of Good Scientific Practice and the Ethics Commission. Of course, even the extensive university library with its wide medical knowledge is provided to all students, employees and researchers of the MedUni Vienna.

The Core Facilities for Bioinformatics, Flow Cytometry, Genomics, Imaging, Mass Cytometry, Proteomics and Metabolomics at the Medical University of Vienna provide scientists with easy access to high-end equipment and cutting edge technology to address highly sophisticated research questions. 

The Core Facilities are operated by excellently trained and highly experienced staff that are well prepared and happy to assist researchers with their expertise in planning and streamlining the experiments in order to optimize the use of available resources. In addition, the Core Facilities see it as their task to constantly develop and establish new techniques and methods to ensure that future needs and demands of the scientific community can be met efficiently and with highest quality standards. 

Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Technology

Research projects are supported by the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering with technical support, prototype development and regulatory advice for medical devices. The Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Technology has a range of technical facilities for supporting scientific work at the university: 

• Mechanical workshops
• Plastic technology
• Prototype creation
• Software development
• Support for Medical Devices and Regulatory Affairs

Moreover, the center offers a range of services which are also available to facilities external to the university: for support in research and development activities with technical expertise and infrastructure and in implementing prototypes:  extensive technologies are provided at the center; they are sufficient for hardware and software development via mechanical production up to the 3D print-out of CAD/CAM technical or anatomical objects.  They can be used for creating prototypes as part of research projects, patent registrations and external orders.

Biobank of the MedUni Vienna

The Biobank of the MedUni Vienna consists of three cooperating areas and is responsible for the storage and preparation of bio-material. The Biobank is understood as interface between fundamental and clinical research with the objective of providing research of new diagnostic, prognostic and predictive biomarkers, risk markers and therapy strategies, and to give greater detail understanding of disease etiology and pathogenesis. 

It considers itself obligated to the principles of Good Scientific Practice and academic research as service facility of the Vienna Medical University. Being aware that excellence in clinical research case can only be realised with the corresponding ethical standards, the information or approval of subjects is a pre-condition for including in a project of the Biobank of the MedUni Vienna. In addition, this also means handling the provided biological material responsibly and guaranteeing the private sphere of the participant test subjects.

The three biobank institutes