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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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