[Translate to English:] PhD Program "Clinical Neuroscience (CLINS)"

The doctorate program Clinical Neurosciences (CLINS) is a platform for clinical PhD projects in the area of neuro-oncology in the context of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Central Nervous System Unit (CCC-CNS).

The neuro-oncological CLINS PhD projects are based on clinical-scientific issues from a host of different work areas of the multi-disciplinary field of neuro-oncology at MedUni Vienna.

The current PhD topics originate from the following sectors:
•    Internal medicine and paediatric neuro-oncology
(Analysis of the cognitive abilities/quality of life in patients with brain tumours)
•    Neuro-radiology
(Innovative, multimodal imaging of brain tumours)
•    Neurosurgery
(Optimisation of neurosurgical interventions by way of innovative intraoperative brain tumour visualisation)
•    Neuropathology
(Epidemiology of brain tumours, morphological and molecular analysis of brain tumours)
•    Biostatics
(Geographical epidemiology and survival-related outcome analysis).

Coordinator:
Johannes.Hainfellner@meduniwien.ac.at

Type of study:
Postgraduate doctoral studies of medical neurosciences at the Medical University of Vienna (University code: N790)

Duration, ECTS:
6 semesters, total of 180 ECTS points (46 points for lectures, 134 points for dissertation).

Title awarded:
The official Austrian title is Doctor scientiae medicinae ? Dr. scient. med.
In international correspondence, PhD may be used as title instead of Dr. scient. med., e.g. in case of medical graduates name and title will read as follows: First-name Family-name MD PhD
In case of non-medical graduates name and title read as follows: First-name Family-name MSc PhD

Short description of CLINS
Purpose of CLINS: To accredit early stage medical scientists with scientific competence which enables them to improve biomedical practice by means of research

Neuroscience is a main focus of research and high-end medicine at the Medical University Vienna.
The aim of Clinical Neurosciences is innovation in prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of disorders of the nervous and muscular systems. 
The professional doctoral program ?Clinical Neurosciences? (CLINS) addresses neurological, psychiatric and neuro-muscular disorders in fetus, children, and adults. Interdisciplinary interaction of diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines in combination with basic biomedical research is a key element of the program.
CLINS will provide students with scientific competence enabling them to improve biomedical practice by means of research.
CLINS is complementary to the basic research PhD program ?Neuroscience? (coordinator: Johannes Berger, Brain Research Institute). Mutual guest lectures and translational research projects will link the applied and basic research doctoral programs.

For more information: » www.meduniwien.ac.at/clins
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