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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...
26 Sep 2024

Cancer research building named after Angelika Amon

Boehringer Ingelheim RCV opened its new cancer research building yesterday. The modern facility for 150 scientists was named after the late Angelika...
23 Sep 2024

Six laureates selected for International Birnstiel Award 2024

For the sixth time since 2019, this year’s six laureates of the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Studies in Molecular Life Sciences were...
18 Sep 2024

IMP welcomes new research institute for AI and biomedicine at Vienna BioCenter

The IMP welcomes an exciting addition to the Vienna BioCenter: a new research institute that will apply artificial intelligence to biomedical...
17 Sep 2024

Belén Pacheco-Fiallos receives ÖGBMT Life Science PhD Award Austria

Belén Pacheco-Fiallos, a recent PhD graduate from the lab of Clemens Plaschka, was awarded the 2024 Life Science PhD Award Austria for her doctoral...
29 Aug 2024

Expanding the chemical toolbox to study how the ribosome comes together

Scientists from David Haselbach lab at the IMP, in collaboration with Helmut Bergler’s team at the University of Graz, have now characterised a new,...
23 Aug 2024

Targeted protein breakdown in mice reveals new insights into B-cell development

Researchers from Meinrad Busslinger’s lab now employed a new tool to target protein elimination in live mice and observed five transcription factors...
31 Jul 2024

BIF Fellowship for Paul Welzl

Paul Welzl, joint PhD student in the Plaschka and Balzarotti labs at the IMP, was awarded a prestigious BIF Fellowship to study messenger RNA...
29 Jul 2024

Keeping muscle cells fit: how one helper protein does the trick

Researchers from Tim Clausen’s lab at the IMP have shown how the chaperone UNC45 maintains muscle cells healthry, and shed new light on how defects in...