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Researchers love music and listen to music all the time. The new CeMM Research Report has a musical backbone. Like in science, where people from different countries and with different cultural backgrounds share a common goal to search truth and to advance knowledge, music brings together individuals with different background. Music is a universal language that speaks to our brain, melts our hearts, goes under our skin and so on. As soundtrack to our 2019 Research Report, we have chosen six pop songs, which by lyrics and mood are suitable to connect you to CeMM’s areas of research. 

Nuno Maulide, Adjunct Principal Investigator at CeMM and Professor at the University of Vienna, was our perfect ambassador of both worlds, being an excellent chemist and “Researcher of the Year”, as well as a talented musician. He toured through the different laboratories at  CeMM and where the Adjunct Principal Investigators work, playing the CeMM-blue piano, and giving credit to the research topics and individual groups, who contributed with different choreographies and dancing performances.

We acknowledge the important contribution of  Eva Schweng, Stefanie Lichtwitz, Kriso Leinfellner, Christoph Burgstaller, Thomas Hötzeneder, Alexandra Tirendi, Juliett Zuza, Klaus Pichler and the entire creative team, who brought an abstract idea to life, as well as provided us with an exceptional document filled with interesting visuals of what has been a great team-building experience.

We also take the opportunity to thank our mother organization, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and all our CeMM members and partner institutes, LBI-RUD, CCRI, Medical University of Vienna, Medical University of Innsbruck, University of Vienna, Technical University of Vienna as well as our collaborators and the various funding organizations, for another year of hard and dedicated work to advance research.

Thank you to everyone who active participated in this collaborative Research Report “experiment” and we very much hope you will enjoy the print and video results!

Giulio Superti-Furga, CeMM Scientific Director
Anita Ender, CeMM Administrative Director

Please download the 2019 CeMM Research Report <link https://cemm.at/fileadmin/img/Media/Research_Report_2019/Research_Report_2019.pdf _blank external-link-new-window "Opens internal link in current window">here</link>,
and also <link https://cemm.at/media/images-and-videos/soundtrack-of-research/ _blank external-link-new-window "Opens internal link in current window">watch the corresponding music video</link>.

The photos for the report and the video have been recorded in January and at the beginning of February 2020 before the COVID-19 health crisis reached Europe. As a leading biomedical research institute, CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is committed to advancing the molecular understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic and the causative pathogen, SARS-CoV-2. We are willing to take up the challenge of assisting the medical world to fight the disease. Biomedical research on the virus and the disease will contribute substantially to informed policy decisions and, ultimately, the development of new treatments. Seldom has the importance of quality research for humanity been more evident.