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 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....
29 Oct 2024

Two IMP Postdocs join ESPRIT Program

Victoria Deneke (Pauli lab) and Matthias Vorländer (Plaschka lab) will take part in the Austrian Science Fund’s (FWF) ESPRIT Program. The programme...
17 Oct 2024

Beginning of life: molecular "lock-and-key" of fertilisation found

Scientists around Andrea Pauli combined Artificial Intelligence-driven structural predictions with direct experimental evidence to reveal the...
17 Oct 2024

Anna Obenauf joins ADAPTMET to train the next generation of metastasis scientists

The IMP joins the EU-funded project ADAPTMET with eleven prestigious European institutes to train 15 young scientists in metastasis research over four...
04 Oct 2024

Teamwork makes the gene work: how enhancers collaborate to control gene expression

Enhancers play a crucial role in controlling gene expression. These genomic DNA elements interact with transcription factors and can work...
02 Oct 2024

Rabitsch Award 2024 for Belén Pacheco-Fiallos

Belén Pacheco-Fiallos, recent PhD graduate from Clemens Plaschka’s lab, has received the 2024 Rabitsch Award in recognition of her pioneering doctoral...