Complex sugar molecules, the glycans, coat all cells and give them tissue-specific identities. Scientists from the group of Josef Penninger working at IMBA and the MedUni Wien, together with researchers at the University of Natural Resources and Life…

Every week, students in the Vienna BioCenter PhD Program present their research in Monday Seminar talks to the Vienna BioCenter community. At the annual PhD Symposium, the best presentation receives the Lauwers Award. This year, we congratulate Ralf…

At this year’s Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium, four recent graduates of the Vienna BioCenter PhD program were honoured for their exceptional doctoral theses. Alison Deyett, recent PhD graduate from the lab of Sasha Mendjan at IMBA, received a Vienna…

Barbara Kraus assumes role as IMBA’s Managing Director on November 1, 2024

Carina Seidl, postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Elly Tanaka at IMBA, was awarded a competitive Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship will support her postdoctoral research into the functional regeneration of neurons…

Huge congratulations to Gary Ruvkun on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Victor Ambros.

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has awarded a Cluster of Excellence Grant to “Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease”, an interdisciplinary project co-coordinated by Noelia Urbán at IMBA. The project will study the development and function of…

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have discovered a potential "pause button" in the earliest stages of human development. Whether…

IMBA welcomes the newest member of the Vienna BioCenter: the AITHYRA-Institute, also founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, will leverage artificial intelligence to pursue biomedical questions. The new research institute will be funded by the…

Brain organoids provide unique insights into the human brain. Now, the group of Jürgen Knoblich at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, developed a new method that allows scientists to cultivate brain…