General Information
The students of the PhD program Malignant Diseases conduct original research under the supervision of a faculty member (supervisor) with access to high-end methods and state-of-the-art technologies at the Medical University of Vienna. The students specialize in cancer biology and acquire the skills needed to be a leader in cancer research.
Admission
The students must find PhD supervisors of the PhD program Malignant Diseases N094 who provide PhD projects. The students are exclusively assigned to a project by meeting the requirements in the recruitment/selection procedure. A prerequisite for conducting a project in the PhD program Malignant Diseases is that the funding must have been awarded to the supervisor from a competitive peer review process such as e.g. projects of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) or the European Community.
The PhD students matched to projects/supervisors must ask for admission at the Medical University of Vienna. Students must submit the Application for Admission to the PhD Program (UN094) and the Concept of a Doctoral Thesis Project (Dissertationskonzept), the latter signed by the supervisor to the Office of Student Affairs (Studienabteilung) which processes the admission procedure.
Thesis Proposal and Thesis Registration
To ensure that the PhD student conducts a high quality individual project, the Thesis Proposal will be developed with the supervisor and PhD Committee members at the beginning of the project. The Thesis Proposal includes the scientific background, preliminary data, scientific aims, work plan, contingency plan, time plan, and a summary of the relevant literature.
The PhD training is monitored by the PhD committee which consists of the supervisor and 2 members with complementary expertise from inside and outside of the Medical University of Vienna. The PhD committee reviews the Thesis Proposal and controls the experimental progress and training activities of the PhD student. Annual reports of the PhD committee by the use of the Progress Report Meeting of the Doctoral Thesis Committee Form, N094 or N790 must be signed by the committee members and forwarded to the Office of Student Affairs (Studienabteilung).
The PhD students have to sign the Thesis Registration Form ("Dissertationsvereinbarung") which must be approved by the junior/senior supervisor(s), the head of the organizational unit, the members of the PhD committee and the coordinator of the PhD program.
Note that the Thesis Proposal (reviewed by the PhD committee) and the Thesis Registration Form must be submitted for registration within 6 months of the PhD study (admission) to the Office of Student Affairs (Studienabteilung).