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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

The beginning of the end: Vienna BioCenter collaboration reveals 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...
27 Aug 2025

ZNFX1 compacts and tags RNA to keep immunity in check

Tim Clausen’s lab at the IMP and collaborators have uncovered how the ancient immune protein ZNFX1 enables cells to walk the fine line between...
28 Jul 2025

IMP PhD student Moritz Helmut Wallnöfer awarded BIF Fellowship

Moritz Helmut Wallnöfer, PhD student in Tim Clausen’s lab at the IMP, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds...
23 Jul 2025

Reading more than a 1000 genomes: a long-read map of human diversity

In a study now published in Nature, Siegfried Schloissnig, computer scientist at the IMP, led the sequencing and analysis of over 1,000 human genomes...
18 Jul 2025

Making diagnostics simpler, cheaper and open-source

Access to reliable molecular diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries is often limited by high costs and complicated logistics. In the current...
17 Jul 2025

Three IMP PhD students awarded prestigious DOC Fellowships from the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Johannes Suwita, Myrto Chatziangelou, and Constanze Gremmelmaier, PhD students at the IMP, have been awarded prestigious DOC Fellowships by the...