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IMBA is an academic research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences that conducts basic research in the areas of molecular biology and medicine. We are located at the Vienna BioCenter in the heart of Europe. Learn more about our group leader search. Research highlights IMBA is an academic research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences that conducts basic research in the areas of molecular biology and medicine. We are located at the Vienna BioCenter in the heart of Europe. Learn more about our group leader search. Group Leader Search IMBA is an academic research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences that conducts basic research in the areas of molecular biology and medicine. We are located at the Vienna BioCenter in the heart of Europe. Learn more about our group leader search. IMBA is an academic research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences that conducts basic research in the areas of molecular biology and medicine. We are located at the Vienna BioCenter in the heart of Europe. Learn more about our group leader search. Research Highlights MORE ARTICLES Revealing the evolutionary origin of genomic imprinting Some of our genes can be expressed or silenced depending on whether we inherited them from our mother or our father. The mechanism behind this phenomenon, known as genomic imprinting, is determined by… Read more First multi-chamber heart organoids unravel human heart development and disease Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists – so far. A new multi-chamber organoid… Read more CHOOSEn fate: one brain organoid’s tale on Autism Does the human brain have an Achilles heel that ultimately leads to Autism? With a revolutionizing novel system that combines brain organoid technology and intricate genetics, researchers can now… Read more Virus-like transposons wage war on the species barrier Scientists have known for decades that genes can be transferred from one species to another, both in animals and plants. However, the mechanism of how such an unlikely event occurs remained unknown.… Read more News MORE ARTICLES In memoriam: Hans Tuppy (1924 - 2024) Hans Tuppy, biochemist, science politician, and one of the founding fathers of the Vienna BioCenter, passed away months before his… Read more First model of the brain’s information highways developed Our human brain is not only bigger and contains more neurons than the brains of other species, but it is also connected in a special… Read more How can the human brain grow so large? IMBA researchers find the key in neurodevelopment The human brain contains many more neurons than those of other animals. But how are we able to produce so many neurons? Jürgen… Read more HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Takuya Hidaka Takuya Hidaka, Postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Daniel Gerlich at IMBA, was awarded a competitive fellowship of the Human… Read more Career & Training Vienna BioCenter PhD Program The program is among the best postgraduate courses in European life sciences. Read more Postdoc oppor­tunities At IMBA you will find the freedom to pursue your ideas in an encouraging and extremely supportive environment. Read more Master Projects Most labs host Master Students during their thesis or for placements/internships. Read more VBC Summer School The Vienna BioCenter Summer School offers a 9-week fellowship programme for current Bachelor and Master students to develop pertinent… Read more Job Offers Head Transgenic Service Facility Sanitär-, Heizungs- und Lüftungstechniker (GWH-Installateur) (m/w/d) Sterile Processing Core Facility Technical Assistant Master’s Student (Mendjan lab) Seminars & Events Microsymposium The „Microsymposium on RNA Biology is an international conference that brings together young scientists, junior and senior group… Read more MORE EVENTS May 13 12:30 Monday Seminar (Internal) Location: IMP Lecture Hall Speaker: ZHAN Ni (Dagdas), PITASI Mattia (Leeb), HEINZL Monika (Stark) Type: Monday Seminar May 14 13:15 How superworms can help to solve our plastic waste crisis Location: UBB - Lecture Hall 1 Speaker: Chris Rinke Type: Interaction and Evolution of O IMBA in numbers 13 Research Groups 22 ERC Grants ~ 250 Employees ~ 40 Nationalities Vienna BioCenter The Vienna BioCenter at Neu Marx, located in the third district of Vienna, is today one of the leading international biomedical research centres worldwide and has established itself as the premier location for life sciences in the Central European Region. viennabiocenter.org Contact Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3 1030 Vienna, Austria +43-1-790 44 office(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at Social Media Facebook Youtube Twitter LinkedIn Links Intranet Webmail Vienna BioCenter © Copyright OEAW Imprint Data Protection Privacy Settings Suche × Notice about cookies This site uses cookies. 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