Vienna BioCenter

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Campus Vienna Biocenter 5
Campus Vienna Biocenter 5
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The Vienna BioCenter (formerly "VBC Vienna Biocenter" and before that "Campus Vienna Biocenter") is the umbrella term of a spatial concentration of various academic and industrial research institutions and companies in the field of life sciences in the 3rd Vienna district highway .

The location goes back to the establishment of the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP) in the Dr. Bohrgasse back in 1985. With the establishment of university institutes in the immediate vicinity (today Max Perutz Lab ) and the establishment of the first biotech company Intercell (today Valneva) in 1998, the campus initially developed slowly. Today there are over 20 biotech companies, 4 academic research institutions, 3 organizations from the field of research communication and a university of applied sciences on site. a. With over 1,500 scientists and 1,300 students, the campus in the Sankt Marx district is Austria's most important location for life sciences. The campus has its own training program for PhD students, post-docs and a summer school.

Among the scientists at the research facilities of the Vienna BioCenter are 24 EMBO members ( European Molecular Biology Organization ) and have received 49 ERC grants , seven Wittgenstein prizes and two Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences (as of February 2019).

The outstanding scientific achievements of the campus include the production of brain organoids by Jürgen Knoblich and colleagues, investigations on the CRISPR / Cas9 system by Emmanuelle Charpentier and colleagues, the description of the cohesins by Jan-Michael Peters , Kim Nasmyth and colleagues and the work on Histone code , epigenetic histone modifications such as histone methylation and acetylation by Thomas Jenuwein and colleagues.

The individual facilities are:

This research center is also the name giver for the nearby S-Bahn station Vienna Bio Center St. Marx .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Home - Vienna Biocenter Scientific Program. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ VBC: Info sheet of the VBC as of February 2019 . 18th July 2019.
  3. ↑ Lancaster MA, Renner M, Martin CA, Wenzel D, Bicknell LS, Hurles ME, Homfray T, Penninger JM, Jackson AP, Knoblich JA .: Cerebral organoids model human brain development and microcephaly . In: Nature . tape 501 , no. 7467 , August 28, 2013, ISSN  0028-0836 , p. 373–379 , doi : 10.1038 / nature12517 .
  4. ↑ Elitza Deltcheva, Krzysztof Chylinski, Cynthia M. Sharma, Karine Gonzales, Yanjie Chao: CRISPR RNA maturation by trans-encoded small RNA and host factor RNase III . In: Nature . tape 471 , no. 7340 , 23 August 2011, ISSN  0028-0836 , p. 602-607 , doi : 10.1038 / nature09886 , PMID 21455174 .
  5. ↑ Christine Michaelis, Rafal Ciosk, Kim Nasmyth: Cohesins: Chromosomal Proteins that Prevent Premature Separation of Sister Chromatids . In: Cell . tape 91 , no. 1 , October 1997, p. 35-45 , doi : 10.1016 / S0092-8674 (01) 80007-6 .
  6. ↑ Frank Uhlmann, Dominik Wernic, Marc-André Poupart, Eugene V Koonin, Kim Nasmyth: Cleavage of Cohesin by the CD Clan Protease Separin Triggers Anaphase in Yeast . In: Cell . tape 103 , no. 3 , October 2000, p. 375-386 , doi : 10.1016 / S0092-8674 (00) 00130-6 .
  7. ↑ J.-M. Peters, A. Tedeschi, J. Schmitz: The cohesin complex and its roles in chromosome biology . In: Genes & Development . tape 22 , no. 22 , November 15, 2008, ISSN  0890-9369 , p. 3089-3114 , doi : 10.1101 / gad.1724308 .
  8. ↑ T. Jenuwein: Translating the histone code . In: Science . tape 293 , no. 5532 , August 10, 2001, p. 1074-1080 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1063127 .
  9. ↑ Monika Lachner, Dónal O'Carroll, Stephen Rea, Karl Mechtler, Thomas Jenuwein: Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 creates a binding site for HP1 proteins . In: Nature . tape 410 , no. 6824 , March 1, 2001, ISSN  0028-0836 , p. 116-120 , doi : 10.1038 / 35065132 .
  10. ↑ Vienna BioCenter website. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 20.7 ″  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 9.2 ″  E