The Ethics Committee | MedUni Vienna

Univ.-Doz. Dr. Martin Brunner

Chair

Specialist in Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology; in 2004, received his habilitation and teaching authorization in Clinical Pharmacology. In 2005–2006, completed a fellowship in cardiovascular pharmacogenomics at the University of Gainesville, Florida. Member since 2009; Chair of the Ethics Committee at the Medical University of Vienna since April 2016.

Member of the Scientific Committee of AGES PharmMed. European Expert at the EMA, 2011–2017. Alternate Member of the EMA’s Committee for Advanced Therapies (CAT). Course leader for the ULG Clinical Research programme at MedUni Vienna. Sub-investigator or principal investigator in over 50 clinical drug trials at the University Clinic for Clinical Pharmacology.

martin.brunner@meduniwien.ac.at

Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zezula

Chair

Born in Vienna, studied medicine in Vienna, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University Psychiatric Clinic, Department of Biochemical Psychiatry. Since 1995, research assistant at the Institute of Pharmacology; 1997–2001, research associate at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. Habilitation in 2001 in the subject of pharmacology and toxicology.

Member since 2010; Chair of the Ethics Committee at the Medical University of Vienna since April 2016. Member of the ethics committees of the City of Vienna, the Province of Lower Austria and the Karl Landsteiner Private University in Krems.

juergen.zezula@meduniwien.ac.at

Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Eva Base

Deputy Chair

Senior Consultant and Head of Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia, at the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Division of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Studied medicine in Innsbruck; joined the Medical University of Vienna in 1995; served as a research fellow at the Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, from 1997 to 1999; received her habilitation and venia docendi in 2002; has been a member of the Ethics Committee since 2005 and its deputy chair since 2018.

Assoz. Prof. Dr. Eva Maria Zebedin-Brandl, PhD

Deputy Chair

Medical degree and PhD at the Medical University of Vienna; specialist in pharmacology and toxicology. Since 2021, Associate Professor at the Center for Physiology and Pharmacology at MedUni Vienna. Member of the Ethics Committee at MedUni Vienna since 2014; Deputy Chair since February 2024.

Researchers focus on cell-based pharmacology and stem cell research, as well as the ethical and regulatory challenges of modern drug development, particularly issues related to informed consent as well as the analysis and further development of ethical frameworks in clinical research.

eva-maria.zebedin@meduniwien.ac.at