Summary: experimental gerontology in Austria

Austria has a long and successful tradition in geriatric medicine, nursing and sociology. In contrast, research in experimental gerontology has only come into focus more recently. Gerontological research is performed in various laboratories and clinics of the Medical Schools of the Universities of Vienna, Graz and Innsbruck, respectively, as well as in the School of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, the Institute for Applied Microbiology of the Vienna University for Agricultural Sciences, the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Salzburg, and in extra-universitary institutions such as the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Aging Research in Vienna and the Institute for Biomedical Aging Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck. Therefore, the following brief reflections will be organized in a topographic fashion.