With over 2,500 employees and more than 4,300 students in the fields of human medicine, dentistry, nursing science, medical science, the PhD program and numerous postgraduate university courses, the Medical University of Graz is a center of innovative cutting-edge medicine in the south of Austria.
The University Clinic (Landeskrankenhaus (LKH)-Universitätsklinikum Graz) is a tertiary care hospital in Graz. With 1,484 doctors, around 7,800 employees and 1,556 beds, the Graz University Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Austria. With an area of 60 hectares and almost ten kilometers of roads, it is the largest hospital in Europe.
The Center for Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Medicine (ZWT) and the ZWT ACCELERATOR bring business and research institutions closer together in a unique way. This gives start-ups and companies even better access to scientific expertise and enables them to improve human health with their products and services.
BBMRI.at is the national node of the European Biobank Research Infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC, which is jointly operated by 20 countries and an international organization (WHO/IARC). BBMRI.at connects Austrian universities and biobanks and thus supports and accelerates biomedical research.
The HTS Cluster is the hub for around 150 Styrian companies working in the field of human health. The cluster acts as a hub for contacts, expertise and information in order to create economic added value for the cluster community. It develops the region's strengths in a targeted manner and thus improves the international visibility of the location.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH develops solutions and technologies for business and industry in a wide range of sectors and conducts world-class research. We employ over 500 people at six locations. The Medical Science City Graz is home to the HEALTH and COREMED research areas.
