Today, 20 March 2018, the Austrian Society for Stem Cell Research was founded at IMBA. The Austrian Society for Stem Cell Research (ASSCR.at) aims to provide a network for the national stem cell research community.

On March 16th, 74 Universities and Research Institutes in 10 European Countries will engage simultaneously more than 27.000 students who will be the protagonists of a day entirely dedicated to stem cell research with seminars, discussions, round…

The Ikeda lab pinpoints a new regulator for autophagy in the mammalian system, as recently reported in Nature Communications.

On April 13th IMBA is participating in the biggest Austrian research outreach event

The former president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Werner Welzig, passed away on February 26, 82 years old. Our deepest condolences go to his family.

Scientists from two institutes at the Vienna BioCenter (VBC) have developed a method to identify and characterise microRNAs in individual cells of living animals. The technique, called “mime-seq”, enables to study microRNAs in their endogenous…

Günther Blobel, Nobel Prize laureate and former member of the IMBA SAB, passed away on 18 February at the age of 81.

In a recent paper published in EMBO journal the Tachibana lab applied their new single-nucleus Hi-C (snHi-C) method, ­to analyze which factors are important for establishing or maintaining 3D chromatin structure.

2017 not only saw awards and important findings for fundamental research at the IMBA, but also added value for business and society: new technologies and open access resources for the pioneering field of biomedicine, the first biotech products based…

The Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds (WWTF, Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund) is among the most important funding tools for basic research in Austria. Its recent call for projects in the area of Chemical Biology has…