Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: the fight against childhood cancer in the global spotlight in September New therapies, international research and the direct path from the laboratory to the hospital bed offer hope for children with cancer. (Vienna, September 2026). Every year, around 35,000 children and adolescents across Europe are diagnosed with cancer, approximately 300 to […]
DOC Fellowship: Investigating the genetic alterations behind profound immunodeficiencies. Rare genetic alterations can derail immune development, causing immunodeficiencies and increasing the risk of childhood cancer. Hena Hadzimujagic, a PhD student in Kaan Boztug’s lab, has been awarded a prestigious DOC Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to investigate the molecular mechanisms behind one of
When gene regulation goes wrong: uncovering the origins of leukemia B cell development is a carefully controlled process. Genes must be switched on and off at the right time and in the right amount for healthy immune cells to form. When this precise sequence of events is altered, leukemia can develop instead. In a new
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Protein complex formed by ARID5B and its binding partners.
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Three research grants to strengthen precision medicine for pediatric cancer patients The Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) has funded three research projects on pediatric cancer in the same funding round—all of them including researchers at St. Anna CCRI. The projects, designed in collaboration with scientists at other Viennese and German institutions, aim to improve
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Florian Halbritter awarded Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Mannagetta Prize for Medicine A computational scientist turned cancer researcher, Florian Halbritter is uncovering how developmental errors drive childhood cancer—work that has now earned him the Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Mannagetta Prize for Medicine from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). The award recognizes scientists under 45 working
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A SAGA of instability: Without scaffold, a key driver of childhood leukemia falls apart (Vienna, 20.04.2026) – Researchers in the Seruggia group at St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI) and the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine have uncovered a new way to tackle acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells in children: Instead of directly targeting
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Emerging Field Grant supports childhood cancer research As part of the excellent=austria initiative, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is promoting innovative research collaborations in Austria through its Emerging Fields programme. Over the next five years, selected consortia will work to develop new, highly innovative research fields. Following a competitive international review process focusing on scientific
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Researchers decode cancer’s genetic control panel one DNA letter at a time Scientists in Davide Seruggia’s group at St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI), together with collaborators at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, have developed CRISPR-Millipede, a new CRISPR-based method that allows researchers to study regulatory DNA sequences at single-nucleotide
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Guiding Stem Cells Step by Step: New Tool Improves Models of Pediatric Cancer Development To study the molecular causes of pediatric cancer, scientists need to recreate complex developmental processes in the lab – an effort that often requires a great deal of trial and error. Scientists in the labs of Florian Halbritter and Davide Seruggia
St. Anna CCRI Symposium 2026: Bridging Developmental Biology and Childhood Cancer Research Last Friday, we hosted the second edition of the St. Anna CCRI Symposium. Organized by Principal Investigators Davide Seruggia, Polina Kameneva, and Florian Halbritter, this year’s symposium focused on Cell Fate in Cancer and Development. Childhood cancer often stems from developmental errors that cause cells to get stuck
