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27 Mar 2026

Anna Obenauf elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences

IMP Senior Group Leader Anna Obenauf has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)....
 24 Mar 2026

In memoriam: J. Michael Bishop (1936–2026)

The IMP community remembers 1989 Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop, a pioneering immunologist and microbiologist, whose discoveries transformed our...
 20 Mar 2026

FWF grant supports new method to study gene activity and proteins at single-cell resolution

An FWF-funded project led by Manuel Matzinger (Proteomics Technology Hub, IMP, IMBA and GMI) and Viktoria Dorfer (Research Center Hagenberg) will...
 19 Mar 2026

From IMP postdocs to group leaders: Laura Lorenzo-Orts and Ulrich Hohmann start their labs at IMB Mainz

This year, two former IMP postdocs, Laura Lorenzo-Orts and Ulrich Hohmann, took the next big step in their scientific careers: both have started...
 09 Mar 2026

FWF grant to study how genetic information bridges generations

A consortium of group leaders including the IMP's Andrea Pauli, David Haselbach, and Sven Klumpe, has been awarded an FWF Emerging Fields grant for...
 20 Feb 2026

Ezra Levy awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

Ezra Levy, postdoc in Andrea Pauli’s lab, has been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship will support...
 11 Feb 2026

Catching viruses in the act of sabotage

Viruses are masters of sabotage, they can disable the cell’s antiviral defences and silence immune sensing systems—but this strategy can backfire. A...
 10 Feb 2026

How cells import their waste disposal machine into the nucleus

Proteasomes are the cell’s waste disposal machines, breaking down damaged or unwanted proteins to keep cellular processes running smoothly. But to...
 04 Feb 2026

New grant supports open-source software for focused ion beam microscopy

Sven Klumpe, joint Group Leader at the IMP and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), has received a new...
 28 Jan 2026

Studying immune cell fate inside the body of mice with CRISPR

Plasma cells are the immune system’s antibody factories, but how B cells make the switch to become plasma cells has remained unclear. By developing a...