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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 […]

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.

…and the ÖGMBT Best Talk Award goes to: Eva König!

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

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

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”

Scientists off the record: In our summer interview series, St. Anna Children’s Cancer Researcher Florian Halbritter shares not only his summer reading shortlist, but also his best advice to bring forward great ideas.

Pediatric cancer researchers publish collection of leukemia reviews in top journal “Frontiers in Pediatrics”.
According to the authors, new therapies could spare some children a stem cell transplantation.

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

We are in! LONG NIGHT OF RESEARCH, 20.05.2022, 17.00-23.00 Around 250 teams of researchers are getting ready to take you into the fascinating world of science on May 20, 2022.St. Anna CCRI is also in! Together we make Austrian research visible and graspable! More than 2,000 stations, guided tours, workshops, lectures, live presentations and experiments