Research Center for Molecular Medicine
The CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine is an interdisciplinary research facility for molecular medicine and develops diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. The main research areas are cancer, inflammation and immune disorders.
The CeMM is an institution of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and was founded in July 2000. In 2005 Giulio Superti-Furga was appointed Scientific Director. The institute's research building is located on the campus of the Medical University and the General Hospital in Vienna and was planned by architect Ernst M. Kopper as an extension of the Anna Spiegel Research Center from 2002 and handed over to users in 2010. It has a usable area of 3,600 m². The entire north facade was designed by the artist Peter Kogler .
In the attic, instead of the originally planned management office, a space for creative communication - the so-called brain lounge - was set up by the Walking-Chair Design Studio .
The institute consists of 10 core working groups and 9 additional groups. The facility was set up as an independent research institute with a connection to the Medical University of Vienna . This should encourage a close exchange of students and postdocs and ensure the integration of the members of the Academy Institute into the research and teaching operations of the university.
Web links
- Homepage
- “Brain Lounge” conversation with Giulio Superti-Furga and Jörg Menche from CeMM as well as Karl Emilio Pircher and Fidel Peugeot from the Walking-Chair Design Studio on the functionality of the Brain Lounge of the CeMM in the radio series A palaver freely available as a stream, September 5, 2016.