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The Francis Crick Institute in London (the Crick, UK) and the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb (RBI, Croatia) officially joined EU-LIFE in January 2025. This new membership is part of a process of expansion that broadens the representativeness of EU-LIFE and builds on the open and collaborative spirit that drives the alliance. 

EU-LIFE is the alliance of independent research institutes in the life sciences across Europe. The Crick and RBI are leading research performance institutions in their countries and play a significant role in the European research ecosystem, fostering collaborations, innovation and cutting-edge discoveries. By…

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The Ball Magazine 2025

CeMM members had a great time at the Vienna Science Ball 2025 - Wiener Ball der Wissenschaften! Congratulations to Oliver Lehmann and the ball organizing team for a successful #SciBall25 and a wonderful 10th Anniversary!

The Vienna Science Ball is an exceptional opportunity to mingle with our colleagues and friends from the research community, and to celebrate the importance of science. Every professional group, every association organizes its own ball in Vienna. Participating in the SciBall at the Vienna City Hall not only gives a chance to check one of the famous Austrian/Viennese traditions but also helps us to remind everybody of the…

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CeMM Faculty at Weingut Nigl Wachau (c) Hans Leitner; 
photo number one: Jörg Menche (LBI-NetMed/MPL/UniVie/CeMM), Anita Ender (CeMM/AITHYRA), Andreas Bergthaler (MedUniVie/CeMM), Georg Winter (CeMM), Clarissa Campbell (CeMM), Andre Rendeiro (CeMM/LBI-NetMed), Stefan Kubicek (CeMM), Georg Stary (MedUniVie/CeMM), Giulio Superti-Furga (CeMM/Ri.MED), Laura de Rooij (CeMM), Abdel Rahman Abdel Fattah (CeMM), Kaan Boztug (CCRI/MedUniVie/CeMM), Christoph Bock (CeMM/MedUniVie), Barbara Maier (CeMM), Andreas Villunger (MedUniIbk/CeMM)

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 Adjunct Faculty members have identical principles of excellence, competitiveness, internationality as well as highest standards in mentoring and training, and they operate in a unique mode of…

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Example image of the high-throughput microscopy method used in the study, showing immune cells stained with different fluorescence markers. © Felix Kartnig / CeMM / MedUni Vienna

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 diseases.

Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common inflammatory joint disorder, affecting over 60,000 people in Austria alone, with women being three times as likely to suffer from the condition as men. While…

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Our Christmas card is a sneak preview from our upcoming research report – stay tuned for more!

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 Kubicek for an ERC Proof of Concept Grant, CeMM Adjunct PI Miriam Unterlass for taking over the leadership of the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research in Würzburg, and CeMM Adjunct PI Jörg Menche for…

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Hannes Androsch with CeMM Lab Journal 2010 © Thomas Fröhle

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 invest more in research and education was highly appreciated and of great importance and inspiration. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and former collaborators.

Dr. Hannes Androsch, being a…

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CeMM PI Georg Winter (© Bubu Dumic/CeMM)

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 factors. These molecules aim to reprogram the genetic activity of cancer cells—a promising new strategy for developing innovative therapies. The European Research Council (ERC) agrees, awarding €1.9…

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A study on "The Contribution of Basic Research Projects Funded by the Austrian Science Fund to Economic and Societal Impacts” has been published by WIFO, Joanneum Research and IHS. Proxygen, a CeMM OeAW spin-off company founded in 2020 is a great example for basic research & innovation. 

Link to Study: https://www.wifo.ac.at/publication/274018/
Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Institute for Advanced Studies, Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Policies, Institute for Economic, Social and Innovation Research 

Link to Proxygen: https://proxygen.com/
„We founded Proxygen because we felt a strong need for the industrial…

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First author of the study Bernhard Ransmayr (l) and senior author Kaan Boztug (r) at CCRI

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 immune system. A genetic defect – discovered by the researchers – leads to either the absence or significant dysfunction of these organs in several children. As a result, affected children suffer from…

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f.l.t.r.  Anders Lund, Giulio Superti-Furga, Marta Agostinho, Jesper Svejstrup, Jan Egebjerg, Trine Winterø, Søren-Peter Olesen, Marta Miączyńska at The Maersk Tower Copenhagen (c) Anita Ender

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, and the different working groups.

On top of creating an ambitious EU-LIFE action plan for 2025, and the exchange of best practices, two very interesting panel discussions took place in Copenhagen. The…

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