The Neubauer Lab

Category: General News

  • RIANA: Viennese start-up develops novel, precise anti-cancer drugs

    We are delighted to announce the incorporation of RIANA Therapeutics GmbH, a biotech startup focused on developing novel anti-cancer treatments. RIANA Therapeutics is a spinoff from Vetmeduni, devoted to discovering and developing innovative medicines. RIANA founders Richard Moriggl, Oliver Szolar, VetWidi, and Anna Orlova are very enthusiastic about committing to improving treatments for cancer patients. We are currently in the process of setting up research and development operations in Vienna and will keep you updated.

    Richard Moriggl and Anna Orlova

    RIANA has its origins in 2018, when Anna Orlova and Richard Moriggl presented their promising research project “STAT5-inhibitors: Targeting STAT5 oligomerization in leukemia” at Vetmeduni’s VetIdeas Challenge. This was followed by a spin-off fellowship from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), which enabled Anna Orlova to generate further data on her project.

    Visit the Riana homepage here or read more about Riana here!

    Congratulation from the whole lab on this amazing accomplishment!

  • International Day of Women and Girls in Science

    International Day of Women and Girls in Science

    Today, we are especially grateful for all the smart, reliable and helpful female researchers out there. Some of them we can even call our colleagues and friends.

    “In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly declared 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science in 2015.” – United Nations

    We, the female scientists from the Moriggl lab, came together to raise awareness and to celebrate all past, present and future women and girls in science!

    Read more about the International Day of Women and Girls in Science here.

    Cheers to all fellow female researchers and scientists out there!

  • Ready for Recycling!

    Implementing a recycling system in a big lab is not easy! Marie and Gabriela have discovered this by now. However, despite all the logistical difficulties and confused lab members and with some help from Greenlabs Austria, they came up with an easy solution for us to sort plastic waste and to prepare it for collection by Stöpselsammeln.

    We are happy that our friends from the Grebien lab joined the Green Labs initiative as well. Together, we can minimize transportation efforts, hand over the to-be-recycled plastic in one go and recycle even more.

  • The Moriggl Lab Joins “Green Labs Austria”

    We are happy to announce that we are now part of the Green Labs Austria in order to reduce our ecological footprint on as many levels as possible. Green Labs Austria is an organization that connects laboratories in Austria to raise awareness for how our research activities contribute significantly to waste problems and climate change. Additionally, they offer guidelines and help for a transition to more environmentally friendly research.

    Our first main aim is to recycle single-use plastic routinely used in our lab as well as to lower our energy consumption. Together we found a way to identify and separate different kinds of plastic in our materials in order to collect them separately for recycling.

    “Self-interest is for the past, common interest is for the future. It is up to us to contribute to urgently needed changes to create a healthier, greener and cleaner planet which will benefit all of us.” – Gabriela, Master student in the Moriggl Lab

    A big shout out to Gabriela and Marie from our lab who contacted the organization and developed a recycling concept that we can all stick to!

    Read more about the Green Labs Austria here. What an amazing initiative!

  • Second funding period for Special Research Programme (SFB) F61 “Monarchies and Hierarchies in Shaping Chromatin Landscapes”, including Heidi Neubauer as new project leader

    The Special Research Programme (SFB) “Monarchies and Hierarchies in Shaping Chromatin Landscapes”, which commenced in 2017 and is coordinated by the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, has been extended for another four years (2021-2025). The consortium will continue with their recent successes to gain further insights into the role of the JAK-STAT signalling pathway in the development and treatment of infection, inflammation and cancer.

    Heidi Neubauer will also now join the SFB for the second funding period as a project leader, with Richard Moriggl as co-PI. The focus of this sub-project is to explore chromatin remodelling mediated by oncogenic STAT5 in T Cell Leukemia and Lymphoma.

    More information can be found here and here.

    Congratulations Heidi, Richard and the SFB network!