Medicine

19. March 2025

Semester question

New game, new rules: How does quantum research change our reality?

In the bizarre quantum world, different rules seem to apply than those in everyday life. Yet, we make use of its curious tricks every day – whenever we glance at our smartphone, scan items at the self-check-out till at the supermarket or use GPS for navigation. What will be possible once the last unsolved riddles of quantum mechanics are solved?

29. January 2025

Food Chemistry

Contaminants in our food: What are the health effects?

Pesticides, contaminated food or packaging chemicals – various foreign substances often land on our plates. In the video, food chemist Benedikt Warth from the University of Vienna explains how this affects our health and how we can reduce the impact of these compounds going forward.

22. January 2025

Gender medicine

Women’s pain: An ignored reality in medicine

From drug development to diagnostics and pain management: Medicine has long catered to the needs of the ‘middle-aged Caucasian man’. How aware is medical research today of gender-based inequality? We asked pain researcher Manuela Schmidt and medical ethicist Magdalena Eitenberger.

15. January 2025

Individualised diagnostics, therapy and prevention

Why medicine is becoming more and more personalised

No two people are the same. It is therefore no surprise that patients with comparable symptoms may respond differently to the same treatment. The aim of personalised medicine is to increasingly tailor treatments to patients' needs. Rudolphina delves into this topic together with Barbara Prainsack, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Vice President of the Austrian platform for personalised medicine.

3. December 2024

Presenting… Social Scientist Elif Gül

Rethinking fairness in birth care

Childbirth is often associated with joy, family, and new beginnings, but what happens if things do not go as planned? In fact, for many birthing persons, the experience can involve moments of harm, neglect, or outright violence. In the video, Elif Gül asks how fair childbirth really is.

28. November 2024

Chronic pain

Pain is individual: Towards personalised therapy

Chronic pain is a complex disease that still lacks effective treatment. We visited the lab of Manuela Schmidt and David Gómez Varela from the University of Vienna who aim to change this using cutting-edge technologies and approaches in proteome research.

12. November 2024

Guest article by

Karl Stöger

Rudolphina Experts: Healthcare system

What does a right to health mean?

Karl Stöger, professor of Medical Law at the University of Vienna, explains the legal foundations of the right to health in Austria and discusses existing obstacles in the health care system. He addresses inequalities, the need for reform and possible approaches to improving care.

11. September 2024

Guest article by

Monika Pietrzak-Franger

Rudolphina Experts: Medical Gaslighting

Long Covid and ME/CFS: When the Doctor Does Not Believe You

Under the hashtag #Frauenticket, thousands of women are sharing their experiences of not being taken seriously by their doctors. Monika Pietrzak-Franger from the University of Vienna explains why patients suffering from chronic illnesses often face multiple forms of stigma.

19. December 2023

Microbial Biochemistry

New drugs against infectious diseases

From the flu to the coronavirus – recent years have shown that infectious diseases are a tremendous problem. In the video, biochemist Thomas Böttcher explains the role that new biologically active molecules will play in medicine and what drives him as a researcher.

4. July 2022

Unraveling Anhedonia

How ketamine can work against depression

When aesthetic pharmacology merges with clinical imaging: Julia Crone from the University of Vienna and her team in collaboration with Rupert Lanzenberger from the Medical University of Vienna are investigating how psychedelic drugs can help people who are not able to feel joy and excitement.

29. March 2022

Cancer research

Survival of the fittest cells

Stephanie Ellis is uncovering the principles of cell competition at the Max Perutz Labs. By understanding how our system eliminates 'loser' cells, she gains knowledge for future cancer therapies.