Recent Research Subjects at the University Medical Center Linz

Aortic arch replacement, allergies, pulmonary disorders, vascular neurosurgery, fetomaternal medicine, a focus on rare diseases, and much more. Check back here shortly to learn more about unique research conducted by our physicians and their teams!

We are committed to not only providing state-of-the-art surgical and medical examination techniques, but also applying and further developing state-of-the-art treatment. In addition to the primary and standard care available to patients at hospitals throughout Upper Austria, the Kepler University Hospital is also able to offer the highest level of care across 50 medical and specialist departments as well as at a wide range of competence centers.

Would you like to learn more about our clinical research projects?

The Johannes Kepler University's research documentation program (Fodok) contains detailed information about the impressive research conducted at the university.

The JKU Faculty of Medicine has innovative research funding programs and funded research leave designed to support scholarly research, enabling physicians who are interested in research to pursue a career that combines clinical care and academia.. 

GP and University Professor

Medical studies in Linz focus strongly on general medicine. There are over 50 physicians with their own practices in private practice throughout Upper Austria are also involved in education at the Faculty of Medicine.

Austria's first medical degree program offered as part of Bachelor's/Master's system is educating a new generation of physicians in Linz. The modules are organ-centered and topic-centered at the crossroads of medical practices and clinical research. Your advantages include:

• Austria's second largest university hospital will be your home. You will practice at the Kepler University Hospital (KUK), opens an external URL in a new window in Linz, consisting of Med Campus III, Med Campus IV, and the Neuromed Campus.
• The Johnannes Kepler University Linz has 4 faculties. This means that if you want, your medical studies in Linz are interdisciplinary! Medical technology, healthcare economics, medical ethics, or medical law - supplement your studies with exciting subjects offered at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT), for example, or at the Faculty of Law, or at the JKU Business School. 
• Textbooks are all well and good - but you can study virtual anatomy and pathology in ways you never dreamed possible! You can experience the human body in 3D at the JKU medSPACE during some of your classes!

Med Students Tell Their Stories

Have you ever experienced how an arrested heart suddenly starts beating again? Is pathology really the toughest exam? JKU med students talk about their most memorable experiences while studying medicine in Linz and their calling to medicine.