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15 Jan 2025

Unprecedented protein quantification in single cells using advanced proteomics

Single-cell proteomics enables the study of protein expression and function at the level of individual cells. By revealing details that are not...
02 Jan 2025

Beyond loops: cohesin links DNA architecture and epigenetics

The structural organisation of DNA is important for regulating gene activity and ensuring proper cell function. The protein complex cohesin has a key...
01 Jan 2025

Clemens Plaschka promoted to Senior Group Leader

As of January, the IMP has a new member of its senior faculty: Clemens Plaschka was promoted to Senior Group Leader....
20 Dec 2024

Three WWTF grants for synthetic biology projects of IMP researchers

The Vienna Science and Technology Fund WWTF announced funding for three research projects led by Tim Clausen, Anna Obenauf, and Diana Pinheiro. This...
17 Dec 2024

EMBO fellowship for IMP postdoc Amena Nabih

Amena Nabih received an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship in support of her research on how maternal age affects developmental competence....
12 Dec 2024

BIF Fellowship for Tara McAteer

Tara McAteer, PhD student in the Pinheiro lab at the IMP, was awarded a prestigious fellowship by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) to study how...
09 Dec 2024

FWF funding for Daniela Pollak and Franziska Lorbeer

Two scientists with IMP-ties secured competitive funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Franziska Lorbeer, a postdoc in Alexander Stark’s lab...

27 Nov 2024

A turning point for cancer treatment: monocytes boost T-cells in immunotherapy

Scientists led by Anna Obenauf at the IMP discovered the crucial role of a type of immune cell—inflammatory monocytes—in reactivating cancer-killing T...
20 Nov 2024

Mapping the genome’s off-switches

Alexander Stark’s lab at the IMP identified hundreds of silencers in the fruit fly genome, using their newly developed method 'silencer-seq'. Their...
08 Nov 2024

Vienna BioCenter PhD Awards 2024

Recent graduates Filip Nemcko (Stark lab) and Julian Ehrmann (Clausen lab) were among the 2024 laureates of the Vienna BioCenter PhD awards....