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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

03 Oct 2013

Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award 2013 for Amalie Dick

On October 3, Amalie Dick received this year’s Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award for her outstanding work on the kinetic framework of spindle assembly...
18 Sep 2013

VBC PhD Symposium, 7-8 November 2013

One of the highlights of our year is the annual PhD Symposium, organised by the students of the IMP and neighboring institutions....
09 Sep 2013

Capturing brain activity with sculpted light

Scientists at the Vienna Biocenter have found a way to overcome some of the limitations of light microscopy. Applying the new technique, they can...
26 Aug 2013

A Skeleton for Chromosomes

Jan-Michael Peters and his team at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) found that the structure of Chromosomes is supported by a kind...
17 Jul 2013

Three ERC Starting Grants for researchers at IMP

3329 proposals in the area of life sciences were handed in for ERC grants in 2013. All IMP applications were successful: three researchers will get...
01 Jul 2013

New Scientific Directorate at the IMP

Jan-Michael Peters has been appointed Scientific Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, effective 1 July 2013....
17 Jun 2013

START-Grant for IMP scientist David Keays

On June 17, Australian biologist David Keays, a Group Leader at Vienna’s Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), was accepted into the...
07 May 2013

Wulf Haubensak joins Young Academy of Austrian Academy of Sciences

IMP Group Leader Wulf Haubensak is among the fourteen new members of the ÖAW’s Young Academy who have been appointed in this year’s election meeting....
26 Apr 2013

Bird navigation - great balls of iron

Every year millions of birds make heroic journeys guided by the earth’s magnetic field. How they detect magnetic fields has puzzled scientists for...
18 Jan 2013

A molecular assembly line brings muscles into shape

Scientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria and at the University of Cologne, Germany have discovered the...