Immune defence and protection of own cells - main regulator of hepatic metabolism identified during infection

Researchers from the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Vetmeduni Vienna (including members of Richard Moriggl’s group), MedUni Vienna, Hannover Medical School, St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital and Bio-Cancer Treatment International Ltd identified a key mechanism that explains how antiviral immune responses can reprogram liver metabolism.  The […]

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: A new drug class in cancer therapy

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a rare form of cancer that commonly affects children, mostly under the age of five years. In the search for new therapeutic options, researchers at Vetmeduni Vienna funded by the FWF SFB ‘JAK-STAT & Chromatin Landscapes’ have discovered cyclin-dependent kinase 8 (CDK8) as part of the disease process and have […]

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia: new class of “dual-action” drug for cancer treatment

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a rare cancer that affects mostly affects children. In the search for new therapeutic options, researchers at Vetmeduni Vienna have now discovered a new mechanism of disease development and proposed a completely new treatment – a pioneering work for future cancer therapies. The study has just been published in Nature Communications.   […]

Iris Uras Jodl receives the Wilhelm Türk Prize

Iris Uras Jodl, from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Vetmeduni Vienna, was awarded the Wilhelm Türk Prize of the Austrian Society for Hematology & Medical Oncology for the best scientific work in the field of hematology. The award ceremony took place on October 12th 2019 as part of the joint annual conference of the German, Austrian […]

Two with the same goal - Veronika Sexl and Florian Grebien

Veronika Sexl, Head of the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology at Vetmeduni Vienna, and Florian Grebien, Head of the Institute for Medical Biochemistry at Vetmeduni Vienna, are working on survival rates of leukemia patients. They are financially supported by the European Research Council (ERC). They have talked about teamwork, crazy concepts and their intersections with veterinary medicine in the […]

New insights into the development of an unusual childhood disease

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare disease that mainly affects small children. It occupies a hybrid position between cancers and inflammatory diseases, which makes it an attractive model for studying cancer development. While LCH can heal itself in some patients, other cases require intensive chemotherapy with long-term consequences for the children. The reasons for […]

A molecular switch to high-revving innate immunity

The interferons initiate a signaling process that causes the cell to activate the protein complex ISGF3 for driving antimicrobial gene expression. Scientists led by Thomas Decker at the Max Perutz Labs now found out that two of the three proteins forming this complex are permanently present at these genes, independently of the activating cascade caused […]

Sebastian Kollmann and Anna Orlova receive the Agean conference Travel Award

As part of the 3rd International Conference on Cytokine Signaling in Cancer in Rhodes, Greece, the Travel Awards were again awarded this year. Two of the awards went to Sebastian Kollmann from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Anna Orlova from the Department of Functional Cancer Genomics at Vetmeduni Vienna. In the project “STAT5A and STAT5B in Hematopoietic […]

Young Investigator Award for SFB PhD Student Tobias Suske

Tobias Suske is a PhD student in the group of Richard Moriggl at the Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Vetmeduni Vienna. He was honored with the Young Investigator Award at the Annual Meeting of the OeGHO & AHOP in Linz AT for his excellent talk on “The gain-of-function STAT5BN642H mutation as a driver of […]

How the structure of STAT5B turns a normal cell into a cancer cell

In a triple-effort between international research groups from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Harvard University and the University of Toronto, important new information was discovered about the protein STAT5B, which is mutated in patients with T-cell cancers. STAT5B, like all proteins, is made up of building blocks called amino acids. A single amino acid […]