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Current news and developments from the IMP. For frequent updates, also consider following us on our social media channels, such as Twitter ("X") or LinkedIn. 

 15 May 2019

Activation of gene promoters: scientists discover basis of regulatory specificity

IMP scientists from the lab of Alexander Stark show why certain activators - enhancers or cofactor proteins - activate specific promoters. The...
01 May 2019

Birnstiel Award: international competition of best PhD students

A new research award seeks to honour the World’s most outstanding PhD projects in molecular life sciences from the past year. The international...
17 Apr 2019

Elaine Fuchs to give Max Birnstiel Lecture

The Max Birnstiel Lecture 'Skin stem cells: coping with stress, inflammation and cancer' will be given on Wednesday, 24 April 2019....
16 Apr 2019

IMP group leader Anna Obenauf elected to Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) has announced the election of 29 researchers to its membership. Among them is IMP group leader Anna Obenauf.
15 Apr 2019

VIP2: new postdoctoral programme at Vienna BioCenter

The Vienna International Postdoctoral Program (VIP2) is a new, three-year fellowship program, which will provide prime research conditions as well as...
11 Apr 2019

New microscopy technique peers deep into the brain

A novel microscopy technique, developed by Rockefeller scientists from the lab of Alipasha Vaziri, IMP adjunct investigator, integrates new and...
08 Apr 2019

A new type of protein phosphorylation characterised

Structural biologists in the lab of IMP senior scientist Tim Clausen have characterised the structure of the protein arginine kinase McsB, a novel...
04 Apr 2019

Vienna BioCenter cryo-EM Symposium

The first Vienna BioCenter cryo-EM Symposium will be hosted by the IMP on 3 May 2019. ...
03 Apr 2019

New video portrays Vienna’s bustling life science scene

In a new image video, the life science platform LISA Vienna captures the unique mix of Vienna...
15 Mar 2019

Susan Gasser to give Max Birnstiel Lecture

Susan Gasser's talk ‘Organizing and stabilizing genomes through heterochromatic and euchromatic domains’ will be held in the frame of a Max Birnstiel...