9th Annual CMBI Meeting Innsbruck 2024

CMBI celebrated its 20th birthday

The Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck (CMBI), the research focus for molecular biosciences at the University of Innsbruck, celebrated its 20th birthday in 2024. In the fall, the top-class 9th CMBI meeting took place in the Congress Park Igls.

In recent years, the CMBI has established itself as an important component of biomolecular and biomedical research in Austria and enjoys a high level of international visibility. It brings together researchers from numerous scientific disciplines ranging from molecular biology and genetics to chemistry, pharmacy and biophysics. Together, they focus primarily on the structure, function and interaction of biological macromolecules and low-molecular substances for cell growth, metabolism and the development of organisms. The CMBI was founded 20 years ago as part of the University of Innsbruck's newly established priority system. On 1 and 2 October 2004, the first CMBI meeting took place at the Grillhof in Vill, organized by Klaus Bister, Bernd Pelster and Jörg Striessnig. Today, the focus comprises a total of 27 research groups from the Faculties of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy as well as Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science.

The 9th CMBI meeting took place at the end of September 2024, organized by Ronald Micura, Frank Edenhofer and Alexandra Koschak and featuring some top-class guest speakers such as Henry Colecraft from Columbia University, Stefano Pluchino from the University of Cambridge and Jieping Zhu from the ETH Lausanne. Current results from various research groups involved in the CMBI were also presented. The poster prizes for young scientists were again awarded during the meeting. The winners were Yuliia Nikonishyna from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Institute of Pharmacy, Anna Ploner from the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Sandra Senn from the Institute of Molecular Biology, Immanuel Plangger from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Angeliki Spathopoulou from the Institute of Molecular Biology.

 CMBI award ceremony

  The next CMBI Meeting will take place on September 25, 2026.

Retrospect information on the 8th Life Science Meeting 2022 can be found here.