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15 May 2014

Jan-Michael Peters elected Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW

Jan-Michael Peters is one of eight scientists who were recently elected Full Members of the Academy. In addition, 38 associated members were appointed...
04 Apr 2014

Moonwalker flies backing up

The team of Barry Dickson, former scientific director of the IMP, managed to isolate “moonwalker flies” in a high-throughput screen. Screening a large...
28 Mar 2014

Hormones in action: it’s all about the right partner

Daria Shlyueva and Alexander Stark from the IMP in Vienna analysed such control-regions and the changes in activity that follow treatment with a...
10 Feb 2014

Defect in Ikaros gene mimics human B cell leukemia

Meinrad Busslinger and his team from the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) investigate the differentiation of stem cells to mature B cells. They...

30 Jan 2014

Funding success for Life Science Research in Vienna

The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in...
15 Jan 2014

Fly eye wins scientific image contest

Karin Panser from the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna received the first prize in the international ‘Huygens Image Contest’...
13 Dec 2013

A Molecular Toolkit for Gene Silencing

The team of Johannes Zuber at the IMP in Vienna, Austria, managed to overcome remaining key limitations of RNA interference (RNAi) - a unique method...
09 Dec 2013

Ice-cold methods decode bacterial infection systems

Bacteria have an efficient infection mechanism. They infect their host cells using syringe-like extensions, formed in large numbers during an attack.
28 Nov 2013

Pushing the limits of Light Microscopy

A team of researchers from the IMP Vienna together with collaborators from the Vienna University of Technology established a new microscopy technique...
11 Nov 2013

VBC PhD-Awards 2013

This year’s PhD-Symposium “LIFE-TIME” traditionally ended with the announcement of the winners of the VBC PhD-Awards on November 8. These Awards are...