Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andrea Olschewski, designated Rector of Karl Landsteiner University (KL Krems), has nominated Mag. Sabine Siegl-Amerer as Prorektor and Managing Director following the hearing process. The proposal was confirmed by the selection committee. The experienced economic expert in the field of higher education and education is set to continue her successful work at KL Krems in February 2026.

This time, the autumn meeting of the ÖPUK rectors took place in the vineyards of the Wachau World Heritage Site at the Karl Landsteiner Private University for Health Sciences.

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Clean water from the tap is taken for granted in Austria. Andreas Farnleitner, Head of the Department of Water Quality and Health at Karl Landsteiner University and Co-Head of the ICC Water & Health, explains the safety net behind every glass of drinking water.

Mit großer Bestürzung und Trauer nehmen wir Abschied von unserem geschätzten Lehrenden, Kollegen und Freund, Johannes Schmidt, der Anfang August überraschend verstorben ist.

A study by KL Krems and MedUni Vienna identifies a majority of asthma cases as allergic and opens access to effective, affordable immunotherapy.

This summer, Campus Krems once again became a meeting place for inquisitive young people:

The FIT4YOUniversity event offered young people between the ages of 14 and 19 exciting insights into the world of higher education. Together with IMC FH Krems, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences was once again involved as a project partner - and impressed with a varied programme covering medicine, psychology and health sciences.

As part of my work as a PhD student in the Department of Pharmacology at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, I have been given the wonderful opportunity to take part in an Erasmus+ funded staff mobility programme (research internship) at the Translational Research Institute Australia at the University of Queenstown in Brisbane from 5 May 2025 to 6 June 2025. This practical course was organised in collaboration with the International Office at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences. The aim of the practical course was to learn techniques through research work in another laboratory that I can also apply to my own research work at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences.

Since 15 May 2024, child and adolescent psychiatrists in Austria have been allowed to continue treating young people over the age of 18. A study shows broad support for the amendment, but warns that without sufficient personnel and structural resources, the potential in the overburdened system will remain unutilised.

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In early summer 2025, AGES – the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety – and the Interuniversity Cooperation Centre for Water and Health (ICC W&H) held their second symposium on water quality and health.

Auch diesen Sommer verwandelt sich die Karl Landsteiner Privatuniversität wieder in einen bunten Erlebnisort für Kinder: Zum dritten Mal bietet die KL eine einwöchige Ferienbetreuung für die Kids ihrer Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter an – und 21 kleine Entdeckerinnen und Entdecker im Alter von fünf bis zehn Jahren sind mit Begeisterung dabei.

For the second time in a row, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is supporting a project submitted by the Department of Physiology with the prestigious 1000 Ideas Programme Division of Physiology (Head: Prof. Dr Gerald Obermair) at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences. The 1000 Ideas Programme programme aims to facilitate particularly creative, daring and potentially ground-breaking research projects - projects that are deliberately located outside conventional scientific understanding.