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 09 Nov 2019

Inaugural Birnstiel Award presented at the IMP

The inaugural Birnstiel Awards were given to Emily Bayer, Mohamed El-Brolosy and Justin Silpe in a ceremony at the IMP. This new international award...
08 Nov 2019

Four IMP alumni receive Vienna BioCenter PhD Awards

As one of the highlights of the Vienna BioCenter PhD Student Symposium “Re-Connect”, five alumni of the international PhD Programme were honoured for...
29 Oct 2019

REANIMA: toward a new paradigm in cardiac regeneration

Endogenous mechanisms of tissue regeneration provide an innovative research avenue in the cardiac regeneration field....
24 Oct 2019

Essential biochemical process driven by alternative cellular fuel discovered

An international team of scientists including members of the Peters lab at the IMP have discovered a novel biochemical process that is based on an...
14 Oct 2019

25th anniversary at Vienna BioCenter PhD Student Symposium

Every year, students make a great effort to organise the "Vienna BioCenter PhD Programme Symposium". There, leading scientists present their latest...
10 Oct 2019

Bing Ren to give Max Birnstiel Lecture

Bing Ren will present the lecture ‘Decrypting the Noncoding Genome - Unmasking the role of transcriptional control in complex traits and human...
03 Oct 2019

Striking a balance: a mechanism to control autoimmunity

The immune system relies on B cells and their ability to make antibodies against an extremely broad range of pathogens. This broad responsiveness...
02 Oct 2019

Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award 2019

The second day of the IMP-IMBA Recess was kicked off by the presentation of the Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award to IMBA alumna Julia Batki. ...
17 Sep 2019

PhD Award for Harris Kaplan

The IMP alumnus who graduated from the lab of Manuel Zimmer was honoured for his doctoral research on neuronal dynamics in C. elegans worms....
16 Sep 2019

International Birnstiel Award for three outstanding young scientists

Emily Bayer of Columbia University, Mohamed El-Brolosy of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, and Justin Silpe of Princeton...