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From 22-23 January 2025 the annual CeMM Faculty Retreat took place at Weingut Nigl in Senftenberg, Wachau. CeMM PIs and Adjunct PIs discussed how to foster greater social and scientific cohesion among faculty. In five sessions they talked about strategic collaborative programs, translational projects and institutional partnerships, postdoc program and career developments, publication output, and budget, grants and investment plans.CeMM and its…

Researchers at CeMM and the Medical University of Vienna have developed an innovative microscopy-based approach that could predict the best approved drug to treat individual rheumatoid arthritis patients using samples of their blood. Published in the Lancet group journal EBioMedicine, the study demonstrates the feasibility of precision medicine to significantly enhance treatments for rheumatoid arthritis and likely other autoimmune…

We thank all the CeMM members and Alumnae/Alumni, as well as our stakeholders, collaboration partners and friends for making 2024 a successful year. We deeply appreciate their commitment to continuous improvement and their openness to embracing new endeavors.

We congratulate CeMM Adjunct PI Nuno Maulide for an ERC Advanced Grant, Georg Winter for an ERC Consolidator Grant and being part of a global Cancer Grand Challenges team, and Stefan…

CeMM would like to show respect and gratitude to Hannes Androsch who passed away on 11 December 2024. He will be remembered as an Austrian business man and politician, being Austrian Finance Minister from 1970 to 1981 and Vice Chancellor from 1976 to 1981. Austria lost a person of broad interests and community work.

For CeMM and the scientific community his constant support of research and development activities and tireless public advocacy to…

Tailored small molecules that bind to cancer-causing proteins and neutralize tumor cells—this is the specialty of Georg Winter, Principal Investigator at CeMM, who has established himself as a global leader in the field. His latest ERC CoG project proposal, GE|NEomorph, will take his research to a new level. Instead of marking cancer proteins for cellular degradation, as in previous approaches, Winter’s designer molecules now target transcription…

Secondary lymphoid organs are specialized regions in the body where immune cells multiply and develop to respond to new pathogens like viruses and bacteria. An international team led by Kaan Boztug, CeMM Adjunct PI, Scientific Director of the CCRI and Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, has identified a completely new form of a rare disease that affects these organs, shedding light on the significance of these structures for the human…

From 21-22 November 2024, the directors and main representatives of the 15 EU-LIFE member institutes came together to reflect on the activities, challenges and achievements of 2024, and to talk about the action plan and priorities for 2025. EU-LIFE Chair Giulio Superti-Furga, CeMM, and EU-LIFE Vice-Chair Marta Miączyńska, IIMCB, will now follow up on the decisions made with the help of the EU-LIFE office under the leadership of Marta Agostinho,…

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) supported by an international hiring committee of top scientists and entrepreneurs is seeking an outstanding scientist and visionary leader to serve as the SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR (F/M/X) of CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine. The candidate will follow the founding Director Giulio Superti-Furga, a renowned molecular biologist who will become Director of the Biomedical Research and Biotechnology…

Rapid demographic changes are a central cause of the societal and political phenomena of our time, leaving “the world in pieces.” This key argument was compellingly elaborated by Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, at the 13th CeMM S.M.A.R.T. Lecture held on 30 October 2024.

Before a packed audience, Krastev explored the complex interplay…

Cell division is a pivotal moment in the life cycle of a cell: when things go wrong, the cell typically triggers growth arrest or its own self-destruction. Researchers in Austria and Italy have now discovered a previously unknown process that initiates cancer cell death in two distinct ways. This newly uncovered mechanism could help fighting blood cancer, as many modern therapies target the last step in cell division in tumor cells. The study was…

On 4 October 2024, the CeMM Outing took place. Each year we try to combine social activities with an informative and educational approach.

In times of escalating conflicts in the world, we thought it would be important to reflect on Austrian, European and World history, and went to the Vienna Arsenal which houses the Austrian Museum of Military History. We learned that a multi-nation multi-ethnic multi-religion multi-language empire had a…

Congratulations to CeMM Adjunct PI Miriam Unterlass, who will take over the leadership of Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg. The chemist and materials scientist, who has previously taught as Professor of Solid State Chemistry at the University of Konstanz and the TU Vienna, brings her focus on the synthesis of new functional materials to Würzburg, enriching the portfolio of the Fraunhofer ISC and the University of…

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) is further expanding its focus on life sciences by opening an institute for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on a € 150 million funding from the German non-profit Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation (BIS). The new institute, called AITHYRA, will make revolutionary advances in biomedicine by developing AI-based research approaches. It will make a significant contribution to the advancement of human…

We received the sad news that architect Ernst M. Kopper passed away. The CeMM building was designed by architect Kopper who created a structure full of light with much open space for the needs and comfort of modern molecular biology laboratories, for the work and life of scientists, as well as room to house sophisticated high-tech scientific equipment.

Ernst M. Kopper was born 1945 in Schulberg near Graz. After studying architecture at Graz…