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01 Mar 2017

New IMP Building: International Research Center Opens in Vienna

The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) opens its new building: IMP sponsor Boehringer Ingelheim has constructed a new flagship for the...
06 Feb 2017

Neuroscientist Winfried Denk to give Max Birnstiel Lecture at the IMP

The IMP cordially invites to the talk: "Towards a Connectome of the Whole Mouse Brain". Winfried Denk is director at the Max Planck Institute for...
18 Nov 2016

Martina Minnich wins Karl Landsteiner Award 2017

IMP scientist Martina Minnich, a postdoc with Meinrad Busslinger’s lab, is awarded this year’s “Karl Landsteiner Preis” for her paper “Multifunctional...
04 Nov 2016

Mattias Lauwers Award for Florian Grössl

To mark the end of the annual VBC PhD Students’ Symposium, this year's Mattias Lauwers Award was presented to Florian Grössl of the Haubensak lab at...
31 Oct 2016

Researchers watch in 3D as neurons talk to each other in a living mouse brain

No single neuron produces a thought or a behavior; anything the brain accomplishes is a vast collaborative effort between cells. When at work, neurons...
21 Oct 2016

Elly Tanaka joins the IMP as Senior Scientist

The internationally recognized biologist Elly Tanaka has taken up a position as Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology...
07 Oct 2016

How cells take out the trash: the “phospho-kiss of death” deciphered

Cells never forget to take out the trash. It has long been known that cells tag proteins for degradation by labelling them with ubiquitin, a signal...
06 Oct 2016

Beata Mierzwa receives “Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award” 2016

This year’s “Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award” was presented to Beata Mierzwa, a PhD student in the lab of Daniel Gerlich at IMBA....
03 Oct 2016

Novel mechanism to steer cell identities gives clue on how organisms develop

Scientists discovered a new way in which microRNAs can determine the fate of cells in the course of their development. This could be a key to...
30 Sep 2016

WWTF-grant supports cancer research by Anna Obenauf

IMP-Group Leader Anna Obenauf was successful in securing one of five grants within the project call "Precision Medicine" by the Vienna Science and...