Heidar Heidari Khoei, a postdoc in Nicolas Rivron’s lab at IMBA, has been awarded the 2025 Royan International Research Award for his work on stem cell-based models of the human embryo. The award was presented during the Royan Conference in Tehran in…

The Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award, established in 2006, celebrates the accomplishments of a PhD student at the IMP or at IMBA each autumn. This year, Sakurako Nagumo Wong, a recent PhD graduate from Jürgen Knoblich's lab at IMBA, who successfully…

Max Kellner, a former PhD student in the lab of Josef Penninger at IMBA, has been awarded the 2025 Life Sciences Research Award Austria for groundbreaking work on how dangerous viruses emerge from natural reservoirs like bats. The award was presented…

Science in Austria is facing important decisions: negotiations on the research, technology, and innovation budget (FTI budget) for the years 2027 to 2029 will begin in the fall. At a time when the country's budgetary flexibility is limited, funding…

Christos Kyprianou, Postdoc in Nicolas Rivron's lab at IMBA, has received a Seal of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the causes of implantation failure in human embryonic development.

Researchers at the Vienna BioCenter have solved a 20-year-old mystery in genome biology, revealing how PIWI proteins engage partner molecules to silence “jumping genes” that threaten genetic stability. The findings result of a collaboration between…

Sasha Mendjan, Senior Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his research on heart development. The funded…

Mustafa Alaabo, PhD student in Daniel Gerlich’s lab, was awarded a competitive fellowship by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds for his research on DNA repair. 

Access to reliable molecular diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries is often limited by high costs and complicated logistics. In the current issue of the journal Life Science Alliance, scientists from IMP and IMBA with collaborators present…

Hyosang Kim, Postdoc in the Knoblich’s lab at IMBA, has received an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship to research the origins of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).