Molecules of Life is a joint initiative of the University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna created to foster education, cooperation and interaction among students and group leaders from different backgrounds and disciplines in an open and creative environment

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

Group leaders Thomas Leonard and Bojan Zagrovic were awarded an FWF standalone grant each, while postdoc Linda Trübestein received a Hertha Firnberg postdoctoral fellowship.

Thomas’ standalone grant will support his project on the “Structure, function and regulation of Protein Kinase D (PKD)”. This essential protein kinase is involved in the...

MFPL scientist Dea Slade dedicates her research to the cellular responses to DNA damage. Recently, Dr. Slade won a WWTF Next grant and, together with a team of MFPL scientists, published new results on the DNA damage response in the renowned journal Nucleic Acids Research. The WWTF Next grant is awarded to researchers to facilitate the transfer...