Human Proteome Day
As a follow-up to the publications on the initial draft of the human proteome that appeared in Nature in May this year, Bernhard Küster and Akhilesh Pandey were invited to CeMM to present their key research findings. As part of their presentations, the speakers described the broad range of applications of their research, such as the use of protein identification to aid forensic teams at crime scenes, or a large-scale malarial study in India. They…
Biallelic loss-of-function mutation in NIK causes a primary immunodeficiency with multifaceted aberrant lymphoid immunity
The team of Kaan Boztug, Principal Investigator at CeMM and Assistant Professor at the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of the Medical University of Vienna discovered the molecular origin of a new rare disease and succeeded in deciphering the essential role of the NFkB-inducing kinase (NIK) for an efficient immune response in humans. The findings have been published online, on November 19th, 2014, in the open access journal Nature…
Obituary Max L. Birnstiel
It is with great sadness that we learn of the decease of Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Max L. Birnstiel, of Wollerau, Switzerland. Max Birnstiel was the founding director of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna and can be held responsible for kicking off the renaissance of the life sciences in Austria in the last 25 years. As a mentor of the CeMM director Giulio Superti-Furga, who in the late eighties had followed him as a PhD student…
10 Year Anniversary of the MedUni Vienna
It is our great pleasure to congratulate the Medical University of Vienna on their 10 year anniversary! The Medical University of Vienna is one of our key research partners and plays a major role in the education and scientific development of CeMM’s PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows. We truly value the strong collaborative relationship with our neighbours, and we would like to thank the rectorate, our collaborators and the administrative…
4th Vienna Next Generation Sequencing Symposium & Workshop at CeMM
The 4th Vienna Next Generation Sequencing Symposium & Workshop brought together over 150 current and future users of next generation sequencing technology. Six invited speakers described exciting applications of NGS technology in basic biology and in biomedical research. And the keynote speaker Bart Deplancke (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) presented a biologically interesting and methodologically advanced study on the…
Giulio Superti-Furga and Kilian Huber at CeMM Win GlaxoSmithKline’s European Discovery Fast Track Challenge to Investigate a New Anti-Cancer Drug Targeting MTH1
Giulio Superti-Furga, Scientific Director and Kilian Huber, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, have been selected as winners of GlaxoSmithKline plc’s (GSK) 2014 European Discovery Fast Track Challenge, which is designed to accelerate the translation of academic research into novel therapies. CeMM will partner with scientists in GSK’s Discovery Partnerships with Academia…
CeMM Scientific Director Giulio Superti-Furga elected member of the Academia Europaea
CeMM Scientific Director Giulio Superti-Furga was recently elected member of the Academia Europaea – the Academy of Europe. The election followed a recommendation of the Academic Sections and a peer review by the Nominations Committee of the academy. The Academia Europaea is a registered not-for-profit charity founded in 1988 as an international, nongovernmental association of eminent, individual scientists and scholars from across the continent…
Vienna-Munich collaboration identifies JAGN1 as a novel key regulator of neutrophil survival and function
Congenital immunodeficiencies comprise a group of disorders characterized by an abnormal immune system. The body’s ability to fight infections is impaired and infections can have life-threatening consequences for those affected. Analysis of patients with a disease characterized by an inherited lack of neutrophil granulocytes termed severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) may shed light on the delicate balance of factors controlling differentiation,…
The solute carrier SLC35F2 enables YM155-mediated DNA damage toxicity
Genetic requirement for drug action is important to study as it may reveal mechanism of drug resistance, particularly in cancer, as well as generate ideas for better, safer and more personalized drugs. The laboratory of CeMM Director Giulio Superti-Furga used a genetic screen with human haploid cells, based on the work of Thijn Brummelkamp and his team (NKI and CeMM Adjunct PI), to identify the genes affecting the action of a poorly understood…
Presentation of CeMM Research Report
On Friday, July 25, the new research report was presented to a selected audience on the CeMM terrace. The concept of the current report is a wonderful example of our dialogue with society. Our befriended artist, Dorothee Golz, approached us with the idea of having a geneticist collaborate with her to unravel the traits in a particular branch of the body of her oeuvre that allows for a proper “genealogy”. What ensued is presented in this report…
Principal Investigator Position(s) at CeMM
We are looking for MD and/or PhD scientists either at their first independent appointment or already at the consolidation stage to apply their expertise close to a clinical setting in a stimulating research environment.Are you full of ideas and impatient for action to translate the opportunities of the genomic age into better therapeutics and diagnostics? Do you have a truly collaborative mindset and enjoy teamwork across disciplines? Do you…
Erwin Schrödinger Prize for Denise Barlow
With great pleasure we announce that Denise Barlow, Principal Investigator at CeMM and Honorary Professor of Genetics at the University of Vienna, has received the Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2014 for lifetime achievements. The Erwin Schrödinger Prize is an annual award presented by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for lifetime achievement in the fields of mathematics and natural sciences. This prize is the most prestigious award of the Austrian…
EMBanniversary AUSTRIA Conference – Celebrating 50 years of EMBO, 40 years of EMBL and the Success of Molecular Biology in Austria
July 06 - 08, 2014 More than 40 speakers, session chairs and special guests together with guests representing the Austrian molecular biology and life sciences community celebrated the 50th and 40th anniversaries of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and their impact in Austria, with a dedicated event. EMBanniversary AUSTRIA, a unique fusion of a scientific conference, alumni…
Recognition by Austrian Academy of Sciences for two Principal Investigators of CeMM
The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) has announced their newly elected members. Among them are two Principal Investigators of CeMM. We congratulate Sylvia Knapp for being elected as Corresponding Member and Sebastian Nijman for having been named as member of the Chapter of Young Scientists (“Junge Kurie”). Giulio Superti-Furga, Scientific Director of CeMM: “We are very proud of the scientific excellence of the two group leaders. This…
8th CeMM Karl Landsteiner Lecture by David M. Sabatini
The 8th CeMM Karl Landsteiner Lecture at the beautifully frescoed Festive Hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences was delivered by Prof. David M. Sabatini of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). More than 350 scientists and interested lay people from all walks of society attended the lecture, which was opened by CeMM’s Scientific Director Prof. Giulio Superti-Furga, who acknowledged…
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