The Medical University of Vienna is one of Europe‘s oldest international top universities for medicine and a research centre for driving innovation in biomedical sciences. The institutes, clinics, and departments work together in an integrated manner to facilitate education, research, and patient care. The university provides access to cutting-edge technologies and highly skilled personnel. By focusing on translational research and technological innovation, the MUW aims to bring significant benefits to its patients. Through the distinctive integration of basic research and clinical applications, patients can directly reap the rewards of clinical study outcomes. MUW has identified IMIDs as a field of currently unmet medical need with the potential for novel therapeutic approaches.
The Division of Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine 3 sees itself as a leading European competence center for the diagnosis, therapy and research of rheumatic diseases. In close cooperation with numerous other departments of the university, more than 10,000 patients are treated annually as outpatients, day patients and inpatients according to the highest standards. Continuous training, not only of students but also of staff, ensures consistent quality. Our focus is on the diagnosis and therapy of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. This is done in close interdisciplinary cooperation with other medical specialties. Improving the quality of life and maintaining the independence of people with rheumatic diseases are the focus of diagnostics and therapy. Research into the development and causes of rheumatological disease patterns and the development of new therapeutic options is the central goal of our scientific activities. We pass on our experience and knowledge to students, physicians in training and with completed specialization as well as to interested patients. We continuously strive to be a national and international leader in research, teaching, diagnosis and therapy in the field of rheumatology.
The Computational Imaging Research Lab (CIR) is a division of the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy at the Medical University of Vienna, curious about how machine learning has to evolve to make an impact in healthcare. CIR is an interdisciplinary research lab bringing together scientists in machine learning, imaging, medicine, and biology, developing novel methods to understand disease and to improve precision care. CIR is home to an international group of researchers and PIs leading their research groups in different areas of machine learning, medical imaging and precision medicine. It is closely linked to many clinical disciplines including radiology, oncology, surgery, paediatrics, pathology and neuroscience. CIR develops methods to predict disease course and treatment response in breast- and lung cancer, identify novel treatment targets, and model the reorganization of the brain during disease, working with all kinds of imaging incuding radiology, nuclear medicine, pathology, ultrasound, or microscopy data. Spin-off companies of CIR members are developing software for clinical radiology and accurate large-scale clinical annotation campaigns.
