A new approach to possible future prevention of breast cancer and slowing the spread of tumours has won Austrian researcher Josef Penninger, director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) in Vienna, a…

This year’s “Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award” goes to Johannes Popow who is currently a Postdoc in the lab of Javier Martinez. Johannes, who joined IMBA in 2008 as a PhD Student, receives the prize for his outstanding dissertation in which he describes…

Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna, Austria, have uncovered how malnutrition, affecting millions of people, leads to diarrhoea, inflamed intestines and immune system disorders. This surprising result explains food…

Daniel Gerlich, a biologist at the IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, has developed a new, fully-automated method that allows microscopic images to be analyzed and evaluated without human support. This new technology was introduced in…

The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology and the Center for Biomedicine at the European Academy in Bolzano present a joint research project.

The annual Best Places to Work Survey as chosen by readers of The Scientist magazine, identifies IMBA as second to top international workplace for postdoctoral researchers.

For the first time, scientists are now able to examine the functions of microRNAs in adult mammals. This breakthrough has been made possible by a new method invented by Stefan Ameres of the IMBA – Institute for Molecular Biotechnology. The method is…

Scientific Director Josef Penninger has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

A key protein that controls how the deadly plant poison and bioweapon ricin kills, has finally been identified by researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna, Austria. The discovery was made using a revolutionary technology that…