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04 Sep 2020

Evomet – a project to train future leaders in metastasis research

The IMP is one of thirteen European institutions participating in the four-year project ‘Deconstructing the evolution of metastasis’ (Evomet). The...
03 Sep 2020

ERC Starting Grant awarded to Clemens Plaschka

The European Research Council (ERC) has selected Clemens Plaschka's research for funding under the Horizon 2020 Excellent Science scheme. ...
27 Aug 2020

Cross-border project to investigate how emotional memories are formed

The Austrian Science Fund FWF has awarded a D-A-CH Grant to IMP Group Leader Wulf Haubensak for an international project studying how the brain stores...
14 Aug 2020

A clue on how pigeons "see" the Earth’s magnetic field

Many animals have a sense to detect the Earth’s magnetic field, demonstrated most impressively by seasonal journeys of migratory birds. The molecular...
27 Jul 2020

CaTCH - a molecular time machine for cells

Researchers from the Obenauf-lab and collaborators have developed a tool that lets them trace millions of cells as they undergo evolutionary selection...
13 Jul 2020

Competitive grants for IMP regeneration researchers

New funding has been granted for two projects in the field of regeneration biology, carried out in the lab of Senior Scientist Elly Tanaka....
01 Jul 2020

How the immune system generates a vast antibody repertoire to fight infections

A new study in NATURE reveals how developing B cells rearrange their entire genome to generate the vast antibody repertoire. ...
24 Jun 2020

Innovative test allows Covid-19 screening without laboratory

Researchers at the Vienna BioCenter have pushed SARS-CoV-2 detection to a new level....
23 Jun 2020

Dissecting mysterin or the power of cryo-EM

Moyamoya disease, a blood vessel disorder that often leads to strokes, is associated with mutations in the enzyme RNF213, a ubiquitin ligase also...
22 Jun 2020

EMBO Fellowship for IMP postdoc Elad Bassat

Elad Bassat, postdoctoral researcher with Elly Tanaka’s lab at the IMP, was awarded a prestigious EMBO long-term fellowship. It will support his...