University of Vienna

In 2020, the Knapp Family Foundation and the University of Vienna established the Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research on the Jewish Experience. The Baron Award is presented biannually to a recognized…

Funded by the European Union, the Marie-Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) enhances (through the implementation of an original and personalized research project) the creative and innovative potential of excellent…

Our parents care for and provide for us when we are children. As we grow, they gradually hand over the responsibilities needed to live as independent adults to their offspring. Much earlier in our development, and at a molecular level, it…

Chromosomal instability (CIN) is detrimental for cellular fitness and is a hallmark of the majority of solid tumors. How cells adjust to this instability to ensure survival is poorly understood. The lab of Christopher Campbell has now…

"IrrevoChrom" project is one out of total eleven recently granted FFG spin-off fellowships that will be led by FFG fellow Laura Maggini and host Davide Bonifazi at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna.In the era of…

"Labelled amino acids" project is one out of total eleven recently granted FFG spin-off fellowships that will be led by FFG fellow Predrag Kalaba and host Markus Muttenthaler at the Institute of Biological Chemistry, University of…

Fishes living in the twilight zone of the oceans reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide and are a huge food resource, but little is known about their response to climate warming. Geologist-Palaeontologist Konstantina Agiadi from the University…

Despite being intracellular symbionts, some chlamydiae could gain important genes through gene transfer from other bacteria.All chlamydiae today live inside the cells of hosts ranging from amoeba to animals. A team of scientists from the…

After having visited Vienna, Prague and Warsaw, and having been on display most recently in Belgrade from September to October 2022, the Vienna Circle exhibition opened to the public at the Humboldt University in Berlin on January 10th…

Wind, sewage sludge, and waste water carry tyre wear particles from roads onto farmland. A new lab study shows: The pollutants contained in the particles could get into the vegetables grown there. Researchers at the Centre for…