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The Vienna BioCenter is a cluster of
life science
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research institutes and
biotechnology
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companies located in the
3rd municipal District of
Vienna
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, Austria. It grew around the
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), which opened in 1988. The entities at the Vienna BioCenter employ more than 2,000 people, including 600 students.
Structure
As of 2020, the Vienna BioCenter is an association of 4 research institutes, 38
biotech
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companies, 1 outreach organisation, 4 service companies and 2
business incubators
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.
The four basic research institutes are the
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), the
Max Perutz Labs of the
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...
and
Medical University of Vienna, the
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) is an independent biomedical research organisation founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. The institute employs around 250 ...
(IMBA) of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), and the
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), also of the ÖAW.
These institutes maintain a joint international PhD programme.
The
Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities (VBCF) offer central services, largely scientific, but also including a child care centre.
Awards
Kim Nasmyth
Kim Ashley Nasmyth (born 18 October 1952) is an English geneticist, the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, former scientific director of the Research Institute of Molecular Path ...
, emeritus director of the Institute of Molecular Pathology, currently at the
University of Oxford
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, received the 2018
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
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for his work on
chromosome segregation
Chromosome segregation is the process in eukaryotes by which two sister chromatids formed as a consequence of DNA replication, or paired homologous chromosomes, separate from each other and migrate to opposite poles of the nucleus. This segregati ...
.
After receiving the 2015
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a scientific award, funded by internet entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan of Facebook; Sergey Brin of Google; entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner; and Anne Wojcicki, one of the ...
, the 2020 the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, she ...
and
Jennifer Doudna
Jennifer Anne Doudna (; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has done pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. Doudna was one of the first women to share a ...
for their groundbreaking discoveries on the
CRISPR/Cas9 system. Emmanuelle Charpentier was a principal investigator at the
Max Perutz Labs at the
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...
from 2002 to 2009, where she laid the groundwork for developing the technology.
As of May 2021, scientists of the Vienna BioCenter institutes have been awarded 57
ERC grants and eleven
Wittgenstein Awards.
References
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Research institutes in Austria
Biological research institutes