A new analysis by QED Science identifies Austria as the strongest overperformer in a global assessment of life science preprints. IMBA emerges as one of the country’s leading contributors, appearing on eight of Austria’s 31 preprints included in “The…

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an Advanced Grant to Jürgen Knoblich, Senior Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA). The five-year project will investigate how the human…

An international team of scientists including the lab of Julius Brennecke at IMBA have discovered a fundamental mechanism that helps cells decide which RNA molecules are kept and used—and which are destroyed. Published in the journal Nature, the…

From 3 to 30 June 2026, the exhibition Discovering Women Researchers will be on display in the foyer in front of the IMBA/GMI lecture hall. The exhibition highlights the stories, achievements, and lasting impact of women researchers at the Austrian…

IMBA Scientific Director Elly Tanaka is one of 90 outstanding researchers elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society this year. Tanaka joins the world's oldest scientific academy, whose past members include Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert…

An international research team led by the IMBA lab of Josef Penninger has uncovered a mechanism that allows breast tumors to escape immune attack, helping to explain resistance to immunotherapy in breast cancer. The study was now published in the…

IMBA Group Leader Joanna Jachowicz was awarded a Principal Investigator Project grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Together with her team, she will study how RNA molecules produced by LINE-1 elements — repetitive DNA sequences once…

IMBA’s management, faculty, and wider community were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Gregory “Greg” Hannon, a highly distinguished molecular biologist, whose far-reaching scientific contributions shaped our understanding of cancer and…

An FWF-funded project led by Manuel Matzinger (Proteomics Technology Hub, IMP, IMBA and GMI) and Viktoria Dorfer (Research Center Hagenberg) will develop a workflow to analyze both gene expression and protein production in individual cells. The…

A consortium of group leaders including IMBA’s Julius Brennecke and Sven Klumpe has been awarded an FWF Emerging Fields grant for GEMINI, a multi-institutional project investigating how germ cells safeguard and pass on genetic information across…