Arabella Meixner is among the 49 young talents who were honoured with the Theodor Körner Prize 2009. On April 29, she received the award worth 1500 Euros for her project "establishment of pluripotent stem cells from mice".

Using a new method which will allow more systematic investigation of diseases in future, the IMBA stem cell researcher Jürgen Knoblich has for the first time succeeded in analysing gene functions simultaneously across the entire genome of an…

The 27-year old biologist Lucia Aronica from the IMBA Kazufumi Mochizuki lab won the FameLab scientific communication talent competition on 4th of April. With her brief, exciting, 3-minute presentation on RNAi interference the native Italian took…

Jürgen Knoblich and his team have identified a protein which regulates the delicate balance between stem cell proliferation and neural differentiation in the developing mouse brain. Their findings are published in the current issue of the journal…

The DREAM-gene which is crucial in regulating pain perception seems to also influence learning and memory.

The ERC Advanced Grant of the European Union goes to IMBA Director Josef Penninger.

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has announced the election of fifty-nine leading life scientists from Europe and around the world as new members of the organization.

The central question of developmental biology is how a single fertilized egg can divide repeatedly to produce multiple different cell types. An article in this week’s issue of the prestigious scientific journal Cell from Jürgen Knoblich’s group at…

This prize is founded by the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology. Penninger who has already received numerous national and international awards was able to convince the jury with the Cell paper "Identification of oxidative stress and…

Raiffeisen Landesbank OÖ supports the successful research at IMBA with 100.000 Euros. The donation goes to an Alzheimer project led by the IMBA group leader Thomas Marlovits.