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Austrian Science Fund awards competitive grant to Alexander Stark

The Austrian Science Fund will support the research of IMP senior group leader Alexander Stark. Scientists in his lab will investigate how DNA…

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Postdoc Julia Leodolter joins the ESPRIT Programme

Julia Leodolter, postdoc in the lab of Tim Clausen at the IMP, will take part in the Austrian Science Fund’s (FWF) ESPRIT Programme. The programme…

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Dissecting the forces that govern epigenetic memory

The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana shows a striking natural variation in a key epigenetic marker. Researchers from the Nordborg group at the Gregor…

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Matthias Hinterndorfer receives Denise P. Barlow Award

Matthias Hinterndorfer, an IMP alumnus from the lab of Johannes Zuber, received the 2022 Denise P. Barlow Award for his outstanding doctoral thesis.…

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CEBINA Announces Positive Results of a Phase 2 Clinical Study with COVID-19 patients and Azelastine Nasal Spray Published in a Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal

CEBINA GmbH announced the publication of the positive results of a Phase 2 clinical study that tested azelastine nasal spray as a new approach for…

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IMP's Elly Tanaka elected to National Academy of Sciences

IMP Senior Scientist Elly Tanaka was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The National Academy of Sciences announced the news today,…

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Fighting tuberculosis with bacterial self-sabotage

With 1.6 million casualties in 2021, tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease arising from a single agent. Resistant strains of…

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HFSP grant awarded to Kristina Djinovic and Jonas Ries

The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) has awarded a research grant amounting to €1.5 million over the next three years to Kristina…

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Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds to support T cell research

Elisa Marchiori joined the lab of Joris van der Veeken at the IMP in 2022. For her PhD, she is investigating the many functions of a protein that…

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Andre Nussenzweig to give Max Birnstiel Lecture

The IMP will welcome the genome biologist Andre Nussenzweig of the NIH National Cancer Institute (USA) for a Max Birnstiel Lecture.

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Two different DNA folding principles generate antibody diversity

To defend our bodies against infections, we build a seemingly infinite variety of antibodies. Understanding how this can be achieved on a molecular…

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Architects of the genome

Fitting two metres of DNA into a microscopic cell nucleus: that is the challenge that cohesin takes on, folding long chromosomes into many loops.…

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