Research collaborations and cross-faculty research
The chairs of the Faculty of Medicine already have joint research projects with numerous national and international partner organisations, institutions and hospitals. This collaboration enables the transfer of knowledge from the joint research partners to the Faculty of Medicine and vice versa.
Due to the specific constellation of its faculties (Psychotherapy Science, Psychology, Medicine and Law), SFU has a unique university environment for cross-faculty research. The interdisciplinary cooperation between the faculties gives the Faculty of Medicine a significant distinguishing feature compared to other universities, which will enable the faculty to position itself within the next twelve years as an institution with high-quality research with unique selling points that cannot be found in this form at any other medical faculty.
Research fields at the interface between medicine and psychology or psychotherapy science are already being researched by the Faculty of Medicine in numerous interdisciplinary and cross-faculty research projects and are to be further intensified in the coming years. The interface between medicine and law represents particular potential for the Faculty’s research and is to be positioned in the medium term in a research focus on “Health and Law”.
Research activities with the Faculty of Psychology with a focus on neuroscience
Research activities with the Faculty of Psychology with a focus on neuroscience
With the founding of the Freud CanBeLab (Freud Cognitive&Affective Neuroscience and Behaviour Laboratory), a brain research laboratory with completely new possibilities for cross-faculty research was created. The general focus of the laboratory is on non-conscious information processing in the brain, which knows more than it admits to our consciousness. Objective measurement methods are used to analyse brain functions in connection with cognitive and affective processing. Explicit responses (usually conscious judgements regarding controlled stimulus presentations) are compared with neurophysiological measurement data (brain activity) in the context of a wide range of questions.
Research by the Institute of Psychosomatics at SFU MED with other partners
Research by the Institute of Psychosomatics at SFU MED with other partners
The following research projects should be mentioned here: “Robotics in psychotherapy and psychosomatics” in joint research with Saarland University, “Attitudes towards E-Mental Health applications: A survey among psychotherapists in training” in joint research with Dr Allegra Cattani, University of Plymouth and with Greta Riboli, Milan, Faculty of Psychology, and “Consideration of (addictive) media use in psychotherapy” in joint research with Dr Jan van Loh, Berlin.
Research with the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science
Research with the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science
In November 2018, the research project on “Tako-Tsubo syndrome”, a cardiac insufficiency similar to acute myocardial infarction that is often triggered by emotional or physical stress, was initiated as the first inter-faculty research project between the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science in the field of psychosomatics in cardiology.
In 2021, two different projects on the “psychological stress of medical staff in COVID-19 departments” were initiated and are nearing completion.
Other cross-faculty research projects include “Psychotraumatological aspects in transplant medicine”, “Post-acute psychological stress reactions in medical staff on COVID-19 wards with different levels of stress”, “Desire to have children”, “Psychosomatic aspects of fertility treatments” and projects in “Fertility research”.
Research Fellowship at the Fintelmann Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Research Fellowship at the Fintelmann Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
The Research Fellowship in the Fintelmann Lab at Harvard Medical School’s largest teaching hospital enables SFU graduates and young researchers in the field of human medicine to expand their expertise, engage in international exchange and build a network that promotes their academic careers.
In the Fintelmann Lab, you will be part of an international, interdisciplinary team dedicated to clinical-translational research. In addition to body composition analysis, the topics of minimally invasive treatment of lung tumours using ablation and early lung cancer detection using machine learning are also addressed.
Details here: https://fintelmannlab.mgh.harvard.edu/
Key data on the Research Fellowship:
Duration:
- Minimum duration 12 months; an extension to 24 months is possible with excellent performance
- Start is possible at any time
Prerequisites:
- Graduate, doctoral student, research assistant at SFU MED in the field of human medicine (minimum academic requirement: Master’s level)
- Proof of IT knowledge, at best the programming languages R and Python
- Positive completion of USMLE 1
- Experience in scientific work, publications, project collaboration
Funding:
- The fellowship is financed independently. Administrative fees at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School are covered once.
Application:
Start of the application phase: At least 1 year before the start of the fellowship.
- CV
- Certificates, final documents incl. ToR
- USMLE 1 certificate
- Letter of recommendation/ references
- Letter of motivation (in English)
Contact:
Questions and applications to
E-mail medresearch@med.sfu.ac.at