Julia Bubis receives ÖGMBT Life Sciences Research Award Austria

Julia Bubis, postdoc at the Proteomics Technology Hub of the Vienna BioCenter, has been awarded the 2026 Life Sciences Research Award Austria for developing a highly sensitive workflow that can quantify up to 5,300 proteins in a single cell. The award was presented during the 18th ÖGMBT Annual Meeting in Vienna on 15 September 2026.

Julia Bubis has been awarded first place in the Applied Research category of the Life Sciences Research Awards Austria 2026. Selected from twelve high-quality submissions, she received the award for her publication “Challenging the Astral mass analyzer to quantify up to 5,300 proteins per single cell at unseen accuracy to uncover cellular heterogeneity”, published in Nature Methods.

Bubis is a postdoc at the Proteomics Technology Hub, a joint facility of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) at the Vienna BioCenter.

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