Vienna Biocenter
The Vienna BioCenter is a cluster of life science research institutes and biotechnology companies located in the 3rd municipal District of Vienna, Austria. It grew around the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, which opened in 1988. The entities at the Vienna BioCenter employ more than 1,700 people, including 600 students.Structure
As of 2017, the Vienna BioCenter is an association of 4 research institutes, 18 biotech companies, 2 outreach organisations, 3 service companies and a business incubator.
The four basic research institutes are the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, the Max Perutz Labs of the University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna, the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, also of the ÖAW. These institutes maintain a joint international PhD programme.
The "Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities" offer central services, largely scientific, but also including a child care centre.Awards
, emeritus director of the Institute of Molecular Pathology, currently at the University of Oxford, received the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work on chromosome segregation.
As of May 2017, scientists of the Vienna BioCenter institutes have been awarded over 40 ERC grants and seven Wittgenstein Awards.
