Employment as PostDoc for Angelika Berger-Bečvař PhD. in Toronto, Canada

After years of great cooperation, interesting publications and outstanding teamwork Angelika Berger-Bečvař PhD. is leaving our institute and country for her new employment as PostDoc in Toronto, Canada. We wish her all the best for this new chapter in her career and hope to see her back in Vienna!

Merry Christmas

The Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology wishes all supporters, students, friends, co-operation partners and visitors Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Teacher of the Year, third place!

Daniela Fux was awarded third place at the annual Senior Teacher of the Year award of the Vetmeduni Vienna.

Congratulations - and keep up the friendly and comprehensible teaching!

IVEK International Pharmaceutical Conference 2015

Agnes Dadak was an invited speaker at the IVEK International Pharmaceutical Conference 2015, held in Istanbul.

Academic ceremony of Angelika Berger-Bečvař at Meduni Vienna

New publication in Oncogene

The paper "CDK6—a review of the past and a glimpse into the future: from cell-cycle control to transcriptional regulation" of Anca-Sarmiza Gültekin-Tigan, Florian Bellutti, Karoline Kollmann, Graham Tebb and Veronika Sexl was accepted in the journal Oncogene.

Josefstädter Straßenfest 2015 "Paint your PhD"

Angelika Berger-Bečvař participated at "Paint your PhD" at the Josefstädter Straßenfest 2015, organized by Verein 08 and contributed a great piece of art, even though it was raining.

Another upcoming interesting event will be the Science Salon on Oct. 15th.

Vienna Business Run

Three of our colleagues participated in the 15. annual Vienna Business Run, had great fun and amazing results. Well done ladies!

"Fellinger Krebsforschung" grant for Iris Uras

Iris Uras received a 25,000€ grant from Fellinger Krebsforschung for her new Cdk6 project, congratulations!

PhD defense Angelika Berger

Angelika Berger successfully defended her PhD thesis "Screening for serine/threonine kinases phosphorylating STAT5A in BCR-ABL1+ leukemias", congratulations! (the hats are getting bigger and bigger)

Award for best talk to Florian Bellutti

Florian Bellutti received an award for the best talk at the "Young Scientist Association of the Medical University of Vienna"-Symposium at the session "Cancer Research", congratulations!

Open Day of the Veterinary University of Vienna

Michaela Prchal-Murphy and Dagmar Gotthardt represented our institute at the Vetmeduni Open Day.

FWF fund for Lars Gille

The project "Triggers and Targets of Ascaridole Action in Leishmania" of Lars Gille has been granted a FWF fund, congratulations.

New publication in OncoImmunology

Michaela Prchal-Murphy, Agnieszka Witalisz-Siepracka et al. published a new paper "In vivo tumor surveillance by NK cells requires TYK2 but not TYK2 kinase activity" in the journal OncoImmunology, congratulations

Travelaward for the NK2015 – 15th Meeting of the Society for Natural Immunity

The abstract of Dagmar Gotthardt has been selected for a travel award.

Posteraward 2014 University of Veterinary Medicine, ViennaPosteraward 2014 University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna

The poster of Dagmar Gotthardt has been selected for the 1st place (Jury: Scientific Advisory Board)

Armin Tschermak of Seysenegg Prize for Eva Maria Putz

The Armin Tschermak of Seysenegg Prize of the year 2014 was awarded to Eva Maria Putz for her publication in the journal Cell Reports ("CDK8-Mediated STAT1-S727 Phosphorylation Restrains NK Cell Cytotoxicity and Tumor Surveillance"). This prize is awarded annually to young academic researchers of the University of Veterinary medicine and comes with 5,000 Euros prize money.

Congratulations!

PhD defense Ruth Scheicher

Ruth Scheicher successfully defended her PhD thesis "Novel Roles of CDK6 in the Hematopoietic System" and received an impressive flamingo-colored hat, congratulations!