The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) honors Elly Tanaka, IMBA's Scientific Director, with the Wittgenstein Award – the premier research award of Austria - for her groundbreaking discoveries in the field of regenerative biology.

IMBA Group Leader Nicolas Rivron is the 2025 laureate of the Institute de France’s Grand Prix Scientifique Charles Defforey, in recognition of his work on stem cell-based models of mouse and human embryo development.

Once dismissed as genetic junk, ancient viruses embedded in our DNA are in fact powerful drivers of genome evolution. A new study from Julius Brennecke’s lab at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences…

IMBA's Scientific Director Elly Tanaka recently published an OpEd in Der Standard, highlighting the high level of scientific research in Europe and Austria's efforts in building well-supported centers of academic excellence. Read the full-length…

Heidar Heidari Khoei, Postdoc in Nicolas Rivron’s lab at IMBA, has received an ESPRIT Fellowship by the Austrian Science Fund FWF to advance his research on embryonic development.

Organoids unveil new defense mechanisms against zoonotic viruses

With its fascinating ability to regrow entire limbs and internal organs, the Mexican axolotl is the ideal model for studying regeneration. Scientists from the lab of Elly Tanaka at IMBA now found a factor that tells cells which part of the arm to…

Catarina Martins-Costa, Nina Corsini and Jürgen Knoblich at IMBA received the 2024 Austrian State Prize for the Promotion of Alternative Methods to Animal Experiments for developing the first lab-grown organoid model of the human corpus callosum.…

Sonya Widen, postdoctoral researcher in Alejandro Burga’s lab at IMBA, was selected for a fellowship by the Company of Biologists’ Pathway to Independence Programme.

A new cryoprocessing method, presented by researchers in the Knoblich Group at IMBA, drastically reduces cost and labor for high-throughput tissue and organoid analysis.