Joint research BIOS Science Austria – cooperation instead of competition Together with other leading Austrian life science institutions, Vetmeduni Vienna is one of the partners of BIOS Science Austria. The alliance uses its concentrated expertise in life sciences to collaborate jointly on research topics. Prof. Till Rümenapf of Vetmed uni Vienna won the bid of BIOS Science Austria for a proposal for a cooperation project that seeks to study viral infections in bee populations. The funding will help to conduct a major research project and raise external funding.
Graf Lehndorff Institute – prize-winning stud from successful embryo transfer The Graf Lehndorff Institute for Equine Science, a joint institution of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna and the Foundation Brandenburg Main and State Stud Farm Neustadt/Dosse (Germany) has achieved a special breeding success. In the context of a joint embryo transfer programme, Dr Juliane Kuhl from the Insemination and Embryo Transfer Platform of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna in 2010 transferred the embryo of a young stud to a mare that successfully carried the foal to term, gave birth to it and reared it. The artificially bred stud won the selection of the Southern German Horse Breeding Associations in the category dressage in November 2012, and was subsequently auctioned off for 130,000 Euro.
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Top marks for IFA Tulln Researchers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology work and research together at the Interuniversity Department for Agrobiotechnology (IFA) in Tulln. In February 2012, an evaluation of the Department by an international review committee resulted in the highest marks for the Institute of Biotechnology in the area of animal production. The international visibility of the members of the Institute was expressly mentioned in the evaluation report. The committee concluded that the areas of research, molecular genetics and molecular biology, established already in 2009, complement the research focus of the interuniversity department as well as the research area of reproductive biology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.
Prize-winning stud from embryo transfer