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 27 Oct 2025

22nd Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium "Bringing it all back home"

This year’s edition of the annual Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium will take place between 5-7 November 2025 and will be an exclusive Vienna BioCenter...

 10 Oct 2025

Twice the labs, twice the cake: A shared PhD journey at the Vienna BioCenter

In September 2025, a joint publication from the Brennecke lab at IMBA and the Plaschka lab at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)...
 09 Oct 2025

How cancer turns sour into power

Cancer cells grow in hostile environments where nutrients are scarce and waste accumulates. An international team of scientists has now shown that...
 02 Oct 2025

Rabitsch Award 2025 for Sakurako Nagumo Wong

The Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award, established in 2006, celebrates the accomplishments of a PhD student at the IMP or at IMBA each autumn. This year,...
 25 Sep 2025

Victoria Deneke receives ÖGBMT Life Sciences Research Award Austria

Victoria Deneke, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Andrea Pauli, has been awarded the 2025 Life Sciences Research Award Austria for...
 12 Sep 2025

Anna Obenauf wins the 2025 Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award

Anna Obenauf, senior group leader at the IMP in Vienna, has been awarded the prestigious Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award 2025. Highly...
 10 Sep 2025

International Birnstiel Award 2025: Six outstanding doctoral researchers announced

For the seventh consecutive year since its inception in 2019, the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Studies in Molecular Life Sciences has...
 09 Sep 2025

In memoriam: David Baltimore (1938-2025)

David Baltimore, Nobel laureate, pioneering biologist, and friend of the IMP since its foundation, passed away at the age of 87. ...
 04 Sep 2025

How PIWI proteins protect animal genomes

Researchers at the Vienna BioCenter have solved a 20-year-old mystery in genome biology, revealing how PIWI proteins engage partner molecules to...
 28 Aug 2025

Inside the cell’s recycling hub: unveiling the architecture of UBR4

Researchers from the lab of Tim Clausen and collaborators have unveiled the three-dimensional structure of UBR4, a giant protein complex that...