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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!

We congratulate our researchers Andreas Bachmair, Thomas Decker, Verena Jantsch and Dea Slade on being awarded four FWF grants for their proposed research projects. The FWF will support their future work with a total of more than €1.5 million over the next three years.

Andreas Bachmair’s project “New functions of the N-end rule protein...

We congratulate stem cell researcher Martin Leeb on winning an International FWF grant for the research project “Systems biology of embryonic stem cell differentiation”.
The grant of approximately €700.000, collectively funded by both Austria and Germany, will support the collaborative research efforts of Martin Leeb’s group at the MFPL and the...

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)”.