Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)

🔬 Austria has steadily worked its way up to become a strong contender in life sciences research, consistently ranking among Europe’s best!

This animated bar chart shows the number of ERC Grants in the life sciences domain per capita awarded from 2008 to 2023—and Austria’s position among the top nations.

📽️ Watch our animation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0d8BO1nIX4

Data sources:
ERC Grants: European Research Council (ERC) Dashboard, https://erc.europa.eu/projects-statistics/erc-dashboard.
Population Data: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), https://www.oecd.org.

Austria among Europe's best in Life Sciences research Austria has successfully worked its way up to become a strong contender in life sciences research, consistently ranking among Europe's best. This animated ba...

At the IMP we’re dedicated to the fun of finding out. Few places in the world let you dive into curiosity-driven science like we do.

📽️ Watch what the IMP is all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtl5Vod652Q

👩‍🔬Want to join us? We post new job opportunities every week on LinkedIn—follow us here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impvienna

Meinrad Busslinger, Emeritus Senior Group Leader and former Scientific Deputy Director of the IMP, has been honoured with the Silver Medal for Meritorious Service to the Province of Vienna. 🎖️ 👏

The Provincial Government unanimously decided for this honour in recognition of Meinrad’s outstanding scientific achievements and his pioneering contributions to establishing the IMP and the Vienna BioCenter.

Read more: https://www.imp.ac.at/news/article/vienna-honours-meinrad-busslinger-with-decoration

🔬 Egg and s***m use a "lock-and-key" mechanism to initiate .

Andrea Pauli’s lab at the IMP with collaborators have revealed the formation of a fertilisation complex, shedding light on the very first contact between egg and s***m.

Genetic studies have previously identified many proteins involved in the process, but no direct evidence had shown how these factors bind or form complexes to function as a “lock-and-key” mechanism.

Their findings, drawn from studies in zebrafish, mice, and human cells, are published in the journal Cell.

➡️ Read more: https://www.imp.ac.at/news/article/beginning-of-life-molecular-lock-and-key-of-fertilisation-found

➡️ Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01093-6

🎥 Watch our video about the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apF0V7_N2a0

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🌟 Relive the Birnstiel Award acceptance talks with us!

In just one month, we will have the pleasure of welcoming our 2024 Birnstiel Awardees to the IMP, where they’ll present their groundbreaking research.

We can’t wait to hear about their discoveries and celebrate their achievements!

While we anticipate this year's presentations, let’s take a moment to revisit some of the inspiring highlights from past awardees.

The most popular talk from 2019 is by Mohamed El-Brolosy, former PhD student in the lab of Didier Stainier at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, Germany. In November 2019, he was presented with the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Research in Molecular Life Sciences for his work on the molecular foundations of genetic compensation in zebrafish and mouse models.

Mohamed El-Brolosy has since continued his career as Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, where he investigates the mechanisms underlying genetic robustness.

➡️ Watch the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-g3K3VVqqU&list=PLfIQ6UaKNdKnM89tqheQHzmh63CD7KAOP&index=28

🎉 Congratulations to Bernardo de Almeida, recent PhD graduate in the lab of Alexander Stark at the IMP, for receiving the 2024 Denise P. Barlow Award for his excellent doctoral thesis!

De Almeida’s research was recognised for its significant impact on our understanding of enhancers’ function, which further sheds light on the fundamental mechanisms of gene expression.

More on his research and the award below 👇
https://www.imp.ac.at/news/article/bernardo-de-almeida-wins-2024-denise-p-barlow-award

CeMM , Max Perutz Labs Vienna , Institute of Molecular Biotechnology , Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Principal Investigators, watch out: the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Research in the Molecular Life Sciences has opened its 2024 call! 👩🏽‍🎓🧑🏿‍🎓 Nominate your ⭐️-student of the previous year!

More info:
https://www.imp.ac.at/achievements/birnstiel-award

We're proud of Andreea Gheorghita (lab of Tim Clausen) and Vytaute Boreikaite (lab of Clemens Plaschka), who both got an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship in this last call. Congratulations!

Their research on and the maturation of , respectively, will now enjoy invaluable support.

👉🏻 https://www.imp.ac.at/news/article/prestigious-embo-fellowships-for-two-imp-postdocs

👩🏽‍🔬 Outstanding opportunity for aspiring group leaders: we're !

We aim to recruit a with a strong and innovative research programme in any of these or related areas: molecular and cell biology, gene regulation and development, cancer and immunology.

🔬 The ad: https://www.imp.ac.at/career/open-positions/group-leader-positions

🔬 The services you'll have access to: https://www.imp.ac.at/research/services

🔬 The PhD program: https://training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/

🔬 Your future colleagues: https://www.imp.ac.at/research/groups

🔬 Our work culture: https://www.imp.ac.at/career/work-culture

🔬 Support for parents: https://www.imp.ac.at/career/your-family

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