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‘Working together’ with Sabine Strehl

‘Working together’ with Sabine Strehl In today’s biomedical research, interdisciplinary collaboration is essential. While leukemia is the most common childhood cancer, certain subtypes are extremely rare necessitating international studies for comprehensive data collection to understand their pathogenesis and prognostic relevance. Sabine Strehl’s research focuses on unraveling the genetic mechanisms behind leukemia development, emphasizing the importance […]

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Genetic Defect in Secondary Immune Organs Causes Life-Threatening Infections in Children

Genetic Defect in Secondary Immune Organs Causes Life-Threatening Infections in Children (Vienna, November 22, 2024) An international team led by Kaan Boztug, MD has identified a new form of a rare disease that affects secondary lymphoid organs, shedding light on the significance of these structures for the human immune system. The discovered genetic defect leads

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Long Night of Research 2024 – An Evening of Innovation and Collaboration in Pediatric Cancer Research

Long Night of Research 2024 – An Evening of Innovation and Collaboration in Pediatric Cancer Research The Long Night of Research 2024 was a great success, and we are thrilled with the high turnout of visitors. Under the theme “Innovation through Collaboration,” we were able to introduce numerous interested individuals to the fascinating world of

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EuSARC 2023 in Vienna: Bringing together sarcoma researchers from across the world

EuSARC 2023 in Vienna: Bringing together sarcoma researchers from across the world (Vienna, 25.5.2023) St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute is happy to have hosted this year’s EuSARC conference in Vienna covering multi-disciplinary topics from molecular mechanisms to novel therapies in sarcomas! Thanks to all the great speakers and attendees! “We are very excited to see

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Innovative Therapies for Children with Cancer: ITCC Conference for the first time in Vienna

Innovative Therapies for Children with Cancer: ITCC Conference for the first time in Vienna (Vienna, May 23, 2023) On May 25th, the first two-day conference of the consortium for “Innovative Therapies for Children with Cancer in Europe” (ITCC) will start in Vienna. St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute, St. Anna Children’s Hospital, and the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology

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International sarcoma meeting “EuSARC” hosted by St. Anna CCRI in Vienna

From May 18th to 20th, St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI) welcomes scientists and physicians from Europe, the USA, and beyond, at the EuSARC 2023 meeting in Vienna. EuSARC is a Europe-wide group of scientists holding annual meetings to address the dire need for novel therapies in sarcomas, a group of poorly explored bone and soft tissue tumors.

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Evolution 2.0: What makes cancer more malignant

Evolution 2.0: What makes cancer more malignant (Vienna, 23.09.2022) Congratulations! A paper has just been published in the top journal Nature Genetics, with the participation of Dr. Sabine Taschner-Mandl and Dr. Marie Bernkopf from St. Anna CCRI. The authors of this outstanding paper show that random inheritance patterns of cancer genes outside the chromosome, i.e. the scaffold

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St. Anna CCRI epigenetics researcher Peter Peneder wins ÖGMBT-award!

St. Anna CCRI epigenetics researcher Peter Peneder wins ÖGMBT-award! (Vienna, 20.09.2022) Well done! First place at the Life Science Research Awards Austria 2022 in the category Excellence and Societal Impact – Peter Peneder from Dr. Eleni Tomazou´s tumor epigenetics research group at St. Anna CCRI convinced the jury of the Austrian Society for Molecular Biosciences and

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Nerve healing: neighboring cells become police force – and could make tumors benign

Nerve healing: neighboring cells become police force – and could make tumors benign (Vienna, 15.09.2022) Scientists from St. Anna Children´s Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI) discovered a completely new function of the cells that surround nerve fibers: so-called Schwann cells not only attract immune cells to initiate nerve healing, but also behave like a “police force”

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Austrian Academy of Sciences appoints Kaan Boztug as corresponding member

Austrian Academy of Sciences appoints Kaan Boztug as corresponding member (Vienna, 13.5.2022) Congratulations to St. Anna CCRI’s scientific director Kaan Boztug, who has been elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) has elected 45 new members. In this year’s elections, 14 female researchers and 31 male

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