The “10th Microsymposium on small RNAs” took place last week at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, bringing together the leading scientists in the world working on the role of small non-coding RNAs in…

IMBA Group Leader Stefan Ameres is among the seven new members of the ÖAW’s Young Academy who have been appointed in this year’s election meeting.

With the Life Sciences Call "Innovative biological and biomedical applications of novel imaging technologies" of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), the city of Vienna aims to promote collaborations between physicists, engineers, and…

In a recent article, published in Nature Methods, a procedure is presented to model accurate atomic structures based on cryo-electron microscopy.

The technology to grow three dimensional brain structures from human stem cells, has been named a top ten technology of the „MIT technology review“.

With great sadness we have to announce that Carl Djerassi has passed away. He was a great friend and supporter of our Institute as a member of our Fundraising board and close advisor. Many of us have had the privilege to meet him in person and listen…

On 3rd of December 2014, City Councillor Andreas Mailath-Pokorny presented this year’s Awards of the City of Vienna. Among the awardees are two scientists from the Vienna Biocenter, Vienna’s center of excellence for life science research. Josef…

Scientists at IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna have made a major advancement towards a future therapy for butterfly children. A treatment with fibroblasts generated from induced pluripotent…

Each year, the Vienna Biocenter (VBC) PhD Awards, which are initiated by Renée Schroeder from MFPL and supported by the research institutes involved in postgraduate education at the Vienna Biocenter, are granted to students in acknowledgement of…

On October 2, leading up to the second day of the annual “IMP-IMBA Recess”, this year’s Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award was presented to Elif Eroglu, a former PhD-Student at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, IMBA.