The IAI is an international PhD and MD/PhD programme of the Medical University of Vienna that focuses on the field of "Inflammation and Immunity" and integrates basic, applied and clinical sciences to provide comprehensive and cutting-edge research training. It is supported as a PhD excellence programme "Securing Host Immunity: Elimination versus Destruction (SHIELD)" by the doc.funds initiative of the FWF.
Students on the "Inflammation and Immunity" doctoral programme investigate molecular and cellular mechanisms of the immune system in the context of infections, carcinogenesis and autoimmune diseases. Molecular biological, bioinformatic and translational methods are applied in the research projects. The aim of the programme is to gain a better understanding of the functions of the immune system in order to make them clinically useful.