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

After a first successful year of “Molecules of Life”, the second retreat was held in Sopron, Hungary.
About 80 PhD students, postdocs and group leaders from institutes across Vienna were among the attendees. The VDS’s main philosophy of promoting interdisciplinary research was reflected in the presence of both students and group leaders from...

A new layer of transcription regulation in bacteria has been discovered by the Schroeder group at the MFPL/University of Vienna, in collaboration with the laboratory of Evgeny Nudler at the New York University School of Medicine. Their results are published in the journal Molecular Cell.

Inspired by the RNA world hypothesis, the Schroeder team...