Medical Science City Graz (MSC Graz) is a dynamic place of encounter, networking and collaboration. It is home to state-of-the-art facilities of the Medical University of Graz, which focus on basic research as well as clinically applied research and patient care at the university hospital. The site is also home to the Center for Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Medicine (ZWT I and II) with numerous innovative facilities such as the biobank.
In addition to student teaching and education and training in the medical field, Medical Science City Graz focuses in particular on topics such as innovation and the development of new products and services. Through close cooperation with partner institutions, MSC Graz has developed into an important player in the MedTech, BioTech and HealthTech sector. The goal is clear: to make Graz and Styria a leading medical innovation center in Europe, where science and research are seamlessly linked with practical implementation and economic exploitation.
With over 2,500 employees in academic and non-academic areas and more than 4,300 students in medicine, dentistry, nursing, medical science degree programs, Ph.D. programs and numerous postgraduate courses, Med Uni Graz is a center of innovative, cutting-edge medicine in southern Austria that provides an attractive living space and workplace for staff and students and a significant share of patient care on site. Our campus is the "heart" of our university, a new space created for future-oriented thinking and a flagship project for sustainability that unites all institutes in one location in direct proximity to the hospital.
University Hospital Graz is a maximum care hospital in Graz, Austria, and part of the Styrian Hospital Association (KAGes). With 1,484 doctors, around 7,800 employees and 1,556 beds, University Hospital Graz is one of the largest hospitals in Austria. Its surface area of 60 hectares and almost ten street kilometers makes it the largest hospital in Europe.
The Center for Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Medicine (ZWT) and ZWT II bring life sciences companies and research institutions closer together in a unique way. The companies can have better access to scientific know-how and improve human health with their products and services. The pooling of competences in Medical Science City Graz has an international draw and increases the creation of regional value.
Biobank Graz is one of the largest and most well-known clinical biobanks in the world. Around 20 million individual specimens of body fluids and human tissue are stored here. Biobank Graz allows access to these specimens and associated data for scientific research purposes. The common goal is to develop approaches to diagnosing and treating disease.
BBMRI.at is the Austrian Node of BBMRI-ERIC, the European Biobanking Research Infrastructure, which is jointly operated by over 20 countries and one international organisation (WHO/IARC). BBMRI.at consists of and links Austrian universities and biobanks with the goal to develop the national biobanking research infrastructure for supporting and accelerating biomedical research.
