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03 Sep 2026

ERC Starting Grant for Elias Adriaenssens to study selective autophagy

IMP postdoc Elias Adriaenssens has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth close to €1.5 million to study how cells decide when to dispose of their...
02 Sep 2026

Tim Clausen's lab part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network

Tim Clausen, Senior Group Leader at the IMP, is part of a consortium of scientists that received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network grant to...
25 Aug 2026

AI learns to write code that activates genes in mammals

Could scientists ever write the DNA instructions that tell cells which genes to switch on? Researchers from the lab of Alexander Stark at the IMP have...
17 Jul 2026

Prestigious DOC Fellowship awarded to Sofia Moysiadou

PhD student Sofia Moysiadou from the lab of Anna Obenauf has been awarded a prestigious DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The...

30 Jun 2026

Cracking the pathogen playbook

Viruses, bacteria, and parasites have spent millions of years evolving proteins that manipulate the cells they infect. Genome sequencing has revealed...
26 Jun 2026

IMP key driver of Austrian success with exceptional life science preprints

A new analysis by QED Science identifies Austria as the strongest overperformer in a global assessment of life science preprints. The IMP emerges as...
17 Jun 2026

Separating signal from noise: How cells decide the fate of RNA

An international team of scientists including the lab of Clemens Plaschka at the IMP have discovered a fundamental mechanism that helps cells decide...
11 Jun 2026

WWTF funds research into precision medicine with a twist

The Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) will fund a collaborative research project between the IMP and St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research...
10 Jun 2026

From the Vienna BioCenter to Max Planck: Fränze Müller to lead proteomics lab in Potsdam

After several years at the Vienna BioCenter, proteomics researcher Fränze Müller is taking the next step in her scientific career: in July, she will...
05 Jun 2026

The hidden DNA code behind a powerful antiviral response

Cells rely on powerful alarm systems to detect and stop viral infections—but these systems must be kept under tight control to avoid damaging healthy...