Mutational Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Austria
As a leading biomedical research institute, CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, is committed to advancing our molecular understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic and the causative pathogen, SARS-CoV-2. Biomedical research on the virus and the disease will contribute substantially to informed policy decisions and, ultimately, the development of new treatments.An interdisciplinary team at CeMM under…
CeMM events and seminars postponed
Due to the latest developments in the corona virus (COVID-19) and as a preventive health measure, CeMM has decided to cancel all public events and seminars until 13 April 2020. Events will be rescheduled to a later date. Please check the CeMM website where the new dates will be announced. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at info@cemm.at
Uncovering novel relationships between solute carrier transporters and cytotoxic drugs in human cells
Researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have studied how Solute Carriers (SLCs), a large family of membrane transport proteins, influence the activity and potency of cytotoxic drugs, such as those used in the treatment of leukemia and other cancers. Their study, published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, uncovers the dependency of most drugs studied on the function of at least one…
AustroVirology Symposium 2020
On 5 March 2020, the first AustroVirology Symposium took place at the St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung (CCRI) in Vienna. The event, organized by CeMM PI Andreas Bergthaler and Karin Kosulin (CCRI), brought together 75 virologists from 12 institutions across Austria. The goal was to capture the rich diversity of academic, clinical and industrial virological research and to provide a platform to meet colleagues and forge new collaborations in the…
Rare Disease Day 2020
Today is Rare Diseases Day, which takes place every four years on 29 February. Currently 400 million people worldwide, of whom 30 million are in Europe[i] and 400,000 in Austria, are affected by a rare disease. There are between 5,000 and 8,000 different rare diseases[ii], and the vast majority are caused by a single genetic defect, which can already be detected in early childhood. They are not as uncommon as we may think but they are so little…
Single-cell sequencing of leukemia therapy: Shared genetic program, patient-specific execution
Researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases in Vienna, the University Medical Center of Regensburg, and the National Institute of Hematology and Infectious Diseases and the Semmelweis University in Budapest have studied the response to targeted leukemia therapy in unprecedented detail, using single-cell sequencing and…
CeMM International PhD Program Call Open
The next PhD Program of CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna will start in September 2020. We are offering 15 fully funded PhD positions at CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and LBI-RUD, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases. • Do you want to work in an environment that promotes free-minded scientific…
Christian Doppler Laboratory Closing Symposium
From 15 to 17 January 2020, the Christian Doppler Laboratory Closing Symposium “From Understanding Chromatin Dynamics to Therapeutics Targeting” will take place at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (Austria). The event is jointly organized by CeMM PI Stefan Kubicek, CeMM PostDoc Sandra Schick, and Senior Principle Scientist Simon Wöhrle (Boehringer Ingelheim). The highlight of the…
End of ERC Scientific Council Membership Giulio Superti-Furga
At the end of this year, Giulio Superti-Furga, Scientific Director of CeMM and Professor for Medical Systems Biology of the Medical University of Vienna, will terminate his appointment as Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, which he started in January 2017. We thank Giulio for this important scientific community service during difficult political times, strongly advocating for the support of frontier research on new…
Master regulator of liver metabolism identified during infection
Researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences identified a key mechanism for how antiviral immune responses reprogram liver metabolism. Their recent study, which was published in the renowned scientific journal Immunity, investigated the communication between inflammation and liver metabolism during chronic viral infection. Surprisingly, the antiviral cytokine type I interferon (IFN-I) was…
CeMM enters into research collaboration on targeted protein degradation with Pfizer Inc.
CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, announces the start of a three-year research collaboration with Pfizer Inc. to explore a combination of technologies aimed at expanding the druggable proteome. CeMM Principal Investigators Georg Winter (project coordinator), Giulio Superti-Furga and Stefan Kubicek, in collaboration with researchers from Pfizer’s Medicine Design organization based in Cambridge,…
Novel mathematical framework provides a deeper understanding of how drugs interact
Researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have developed a new methodology characterizing more precisely how drugs influence each other when combined during treatment. Their analysis of over 30k drug pairs applied to cell lines identified 1,832 interactions between 242 different drugs and sheds new light on how drugs perturb the underlying molecular networks. The findings have now been…
3rd RESOLUTE Consortium Meeting 6-8 November 2019
On 6-8 November 2019, the 3rd RESOLUTE Consortium Meeting took place near Milan, Italy, and was hosted by Axxam within OpenZone. RESOLUTE is a public-private partnership, funded with a grant from the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and coordinated by CeMM and Pfizer, with 13 partners from academia and industry.The first day of the meeting kicked off with updates from several RESOLUTE partners, which showcased the progress achieved since…
Thomas Reiberger receives UEG Rising Star Award
Congratulations to Thomas Reiberger, Associate Professor at the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Medical University of Vienna, and Adjunct Principal Investigator at LBI-RUD and CeMM, for receiving the United European Gastroenterology Rising Star Award at the 2019 UEG Week in Barcelona! Follow the Rising Star Talk of Thomas <link https://live.ueg.eu/ _blank - "Opens internal link in current window">via live stream</link> on 21…
International Consortium with CeMM Principal Investigator Joanna Loizou receives prestigious ERC Synergy Grant
Joanna Loizou, Principal Investigator at CeMM, together with Jacob Corn, Eidgenoessische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ), Switzerland and Steve P. Jackson, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, are awarded ERC Synergy Grant for DNA-damage response systems. The prestigious funding worth round €8.86M for a period of six years, of which € 2.95M will go to Joanna Loizou´s group, will help provide major insights into human genome surveillance…
