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Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Summary
The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a biomedical research center, which conducts curiosity-driven basic research in the molecular life sciences.
The IMP is located at the Vienna Biocenter in Vienna, Austria. The institute employs around 270 people from 40 countries, of which over 200 are scientists. The working language at the IMP is English. The IMP was established in 1985 and is funded by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and research grants.
IMP comprises 15 independent research groups performing basic biological research across the following areas:
molecular and cellular biology;
structural biology and biochemistry;
gene expression and chromosome biology;
stem cell biology and development;
immunology and cancer;
neuroscience.
Scientists at the IMP publish 60 to 90 papers in international peer-review journals per year: between 1985 and 2021, more than 2,200 research papers were published. 93 patents were filed based on discoveries made at the institute since 1985. IMP faculty was awarded 17 ERC Grants since the establishment of this grant scheme in 2007; about two thirds of the IMP faculty were ERC grantees by 2018. Five IMP faculty members received Wittgenstein Awards since 1996. About one third of the faculty are elected members of EMBO. In 2017, Kim Nasmyth received the Breakthrough Prize in life sciences for work on cohesin that he had done at the IMP. One year later, his former IMP PhD student Angelika Amon was awarded the same prize.
IMP maintains a suite of in-house facilities, maintained in cooperation with IMBA, that provide support and scientific services to the scientists at IMP. In addition, the four research institutes of the Vienna Biocenter maintain a number of shared services jointly called "Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities" (VBCF). The services offered are available to all Vienna BioCenter scientists including IMP staff.
The establishment of the IMP was a joint venture by Boehringer Ingelheim and Genentech and initiated in 1985.
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