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16 Jan 2019

Obituary: Andreas Weith (1953 to 2019)

We are sad to share the news of the sudden and untimely passing of Andreas Weith who was a Group Leader at the IMP from 1990 to 1997. ...
17 Dec 2018

FWF Grant for Rushad Pavri to study aspects of gene regulation

IMP Group Leader Rushad Pavri has secured a stand-alone grant by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. The grant is worth 398,000 Euro and will support his...
13 Dec 2018

New website for Vienna BioCenter

The Vienna BioCenter has a new website: www.viennabiocenter.org is a modern, central information point for the umbrella spanning four research...
06 Dec 2018

Award of Excellence for Annika Nichols

The Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research has presented an Award of Excellence to Annika Nichols, a former VBC PhD-student in...
05 Dec 2018

Scientists discover “brain hot-spot” for drugs against fear

The ways in which psychiatric drugs work on the level of neural networks are often poorly understood. A team of scientists led by Wulf Haubensak could...
03 Dec 2018

Elly Tanaka receives Erwin Schrödinger Award

IMP Senior Scientist Elly Tanaka is one of the recipients of this year’s Erwin Schrödinger Award, bestowed by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is...
27 Nov 2018

ERC Consolidator Grant for David Keays

Over the next five years, David Keays' research on the neurological basis of the magnetic sense will be supported with a Consolidator Grant of the...
20 Nov 2018

Andrea Pauli selected EMBO Young Investigator

IMP Group Leader Andrea Pauli is one of 26 researchers that have been selected to join the Young Investigators Programme of the European Molecular...
08 Nov 2018

Lauwers Award for Sarah Herberg

To mark the end of the annual Vienna BioCenter PhD Students’ Symposium, this year's Mattias Lauwers Award was presented to Sarah Herberg, a VBC PhD...
24 Oct 2018

Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium “Metamorphosis – Transforming Science”

Every year, the graduate students enrolled in the Vienna BioCenter PhD Programme independently organise an international symposium that takes place in...