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 17 Jul 2013

Three ERC Starting Grants for researchers at IMP

3329 proposals in the area of life sciences were handed in for ERC grants in 2013. All IMP applications were successful: three researchers will get...
01 Jul 2013

New Scientific Directorate at the IMP

Jan-Michael Peters has been appointed Scientific Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, effective 1 July 2013....
17 Jun 2013

START-Grant for IMP scientist David Keays

On June 17, Australian biologist David Keays, a Group Leader at Vienna’s Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), was accepted into the...
07 May 2013

Wulf Haubensak joins Young Academy of Austrian Academy of Sciences

IMP Group Leader Wulf Haubensak is among the fourteen new members of the ÖAW’s Young Academy who have been appointed in this year’s election meeting....
26 Apr 2013

Bird navigation - great balls of iron

Every year millions of birds make heroic journeys guided by the earth’s magnetic field. How they detect magnetic fields has puzzled scientists for...
18 Jan 2013

A molecular assembly line brings muscles into shape

Scientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria and at the University of Cologne, Germany have discovered the...
18 Jan 2013

IMP Scientists shed light on the “dark matter” of DNA

Scientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna have developed a method that reliably detects these regions and measures...
16 Jan 2013

5th International Workshop Quantum Effects in Biological Systems (QuEBS)

The counterintuitive features of quantum physics have already revolutionized our understanding of how the world behaves on the microscopic level. ...
03 Jan 2013

Beug Foundation for Metastasis Research: First call for applications now open

The Beug Foundation for Metastasis Research was initiated by the late Hartmut Beug, founding member of the IMP and Senior Scientist from 1988 until...
14 Dec 2012

A Key Gene for Brain Development

Neurobiologists at the Research institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna have discovered one of the key genes required to make a brain. ...