Our mission is to promote interdisciplinary research and to help excellent PhD students to develop into tomorrow's leading scientists

Our aim is to attract the most promising young scientists from across the world to Vienna and to provide them with the training and opportunities they need to become the new leaders in Molecular Life Sciences

Interested in a PhD at MFPL? Our Summer Call 2018 is now open! Application deadline is March 8th, 2018.

PhD Student Triin Laos, from the Dammermann lab at MFPL, tells us about her work on centrosomes and why she invested her stipend in a cherry to aid her research!

The cell nucleus is a fascinating organelle, in which an organism’s DNA is protected, decoded and duplicated. The nucleus is surrounded by not one, but two membrane sheets: the outer and the inner nuclear membrane. These two membranes connect with each other at membrane openings occupied by nuclear pores. The outer nuclear membrane also...

The third “Molecules of Life” retreat took place in Traunkirchen, Austria, continuing and strengthening the tradition of choosing locations next to Europe’s most beautiful lakes.
The VDS’s mission of promoting research across many disciplines was reflected in the attendance of over 100 PhD students, postdocs and group leaders in disciplines...

Iva Lučić from the group of Thomas Leonard at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MPFL) at the Vienna BioCenter (VBC) won the VBC PhD Award 2017 with her thesis entitled “Role of membrane binding in the activation of Protein Kinase B (PKB) and Protein Kinase C (PKC)”.