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Prestigious prize of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology for Louisa Hill

The Ursula and Fritz Melchers Prize of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI) recognises the best PhD dissertation in immunology…

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Anete Romanauska wins Science & SciLifeLab Prize

Congratulations to Anete Romanauska, who has been awarded the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists in the category “Cell and Molecular…

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CRY2, a component of the bird internal clock

Scientists in the Keays Lab have investigated the expression, localisation, and interaction partners of the cryptochrome CRY2 in the pigeon retina.…

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Valneva Signs Purchase Agreement with European Commission for its Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccine VLA2001

Valneva has signed an Advance Purchase Agreement (APA) with the European Commission (EC) to supply up to 60 million doses of its inactivated COVID-19…

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‘Network medicine’ directs disease diagnosis

Rare diseases are usually caused by a single genetic defect. Nevertheless, the search for the cause and the assessment of the effects is highly…

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Melanie de Almeida wins the Lauwers Award

During their doctoral studies, students in the Vienna BioCenter PhD Program present their research three times in Monday Seminar talks to the Vienna…

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Decoding the role of PHF3 in transcription

Yeast homologue of the PHD finger protein 3 (PHF3) is known to be involved in transcription regulation, but its exact function in mammalian cells has…

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Vienna BioCenter PhD Awards 2021 for two IMP and two IMBA graduates

Lisa Haas and Philipp Dexheimer (IMP), and Michael Mitter and Pablo Hofbauer (IMBA), were recognised for their outstanding doctoral research during…

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How cells keep their nucleus clean: a fundamental discovery

Scientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna have developed a CRISPR-Cas9 screening assay that allows to systematically…

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Ares Genetics launches AREScloud for the analysis of sequenced clinical isolates

Ares Genetics launches AREScloud, a commercial web application aimed at accelerating the analysis of sequenced clinical isolates.

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FWF grants awarded to Max Perutz Labs researchers

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has awarded individual project grants to Manuela Baccarini, Boris Görke and Robert Konrat. The funding amounts to a…

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Prestigious grants for Rushad Pavri and Wouter Masselink

The Austrian Science Fund will support the research of Rushad Pavri, group leader at the IMP, and Wouter Masselink, senior postdoc in the lab of Elly…

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