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 20 Nov 2025

Elusive sensory organ: Pigeons detect magnetic fields through inner ear

Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays show that pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now...
 20 Nov 2025

Anais Elewaut wins 2025 Denise P. Barlow Award

Anais Elewaut, a recent PhD graduate from Anna Obenauf's lab at the IMP, was presented with the Denise P. Barlow Award for her exceptional doctoral...
 17 Nov 2025

Austrian Decoration of Honour for Jan-Michael Peters

A Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria was presented to IMP Scientific Director Jan-Michael Peters. The recognition, presented...
 12 Nov 2025

Jan-Michael Peters elected External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

IMP Scientific Director Jan-Michael Peters has been elected an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried. 
 11 Nov 2025

Boosting Protein Research with New Mass Spectrometry Technology

Researchers at the Proteomics Technology Hub of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Austria (IMBA), Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), and Research...
 07 Nov 2025

IMP PhD Student Paul Welzl Receives 2025 Lauwers Award

Paul Welzl, PhD student at the IMP with Clemens Plaschka and Francisco Balzarotti, has been recognised with the 2025 Lauwers Award for his outstanding...
 07 Nov 2025

Robert Kalis receives Vienna BioCenter PhD Award 2025

At the 2025 Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium, exceptional young scientists were recognised for their doctoral achievements across diverse research...
 06 Nov 2025

UAP56 steers transport of messenger RNA: The conductor of genetic information

How does genetic information such as a genetic blueprint travel through a cell to guide the construction of proteins? Researchers at the Vienna...
 06 Nov 2025

IMP marks 40th anniversary with scientific symposium

The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) celebrated its 40th anniversary today with a one-day symposium titled "40 Years of Finding Out"....
 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...