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 06 Oct 2011

Kirsten Rabitsch Award 2011 for Constance Richter

Constance Richter from the lab of Jürgen Knoblich receives the Kirsten Rabitsch Award for her work "The tumour suppressor L(3)mbt inhibits...
04 Oct 2011

SAB-member Rudolf Jaenisch receives National Medal of Science

Rudolf Jaenisch, a member of the IMP’s Scientific Advisory Board since 2004, has been recognized with the highest scientific honour of the United...
05 Sep 2011

Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium 3-4 November 2011

We are very pleased to welcome you to the VBC PhD Symposium-2011 entitled “Think Alternative: Insights from Unconventional Model Organisms”. ...
03 Aug 2011

Arrow in the Achilles heel of leukaemia

A new potential active ingredient against acute myeloid leukaemia has been indentified and successfully tested....
03 Jul 2011

In memoriam Hartmut Beug (1945-2011)

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Hartmut Beug, a founding member of the IMP. Hartmut was a true scientist, creative and highly...
21 Jun 2011

Jan-Michael Peters receives Wittgenstein Award 2011

Jan-Michael Peters is a Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna. On June 21, 2011, he will receive the...
14 Apr 2011

Study suggests that successful blueprints are recycled by evolution

A study by researchers in Austria and the US finds evidence that the different cell types that make up organs have arisen only once during the course...
04 Mar 2011

The weaponry of salmonellae

Bacteria like salmonellae infect their host cells by needle-shaped extensions which they create in large numbers during an attack....
09 Feb 2011

The love song of a fly

Neurobiologists at Vienna’s Research Institute of Molecular Pathology use the mating ritual of the fruit fly to study how the nervous system...
25 Nov 2010

Sister glue makes sex successful – how sets of genes stick together

A glue made of protein which sticks our packages of genes together may hold the secret of successful sex, say scientists today....