November 2021

New FWF-grant approved: Decoding the epigenome and its regulation in neuroblastoma CONGRATS to Irfete Fetahu, PhD, postdoc at St. Anna CCRI on receiving a Stand-Alone Grant from the Austrian Science fund FWF. Together with her PI Sabine-Taschner-Mandl from the Tumor Biology group and colleagues, Irfete has the ambitious goal to decode the epigenome and its […]

Somatic Sex – the development of malignant diseases reinterpreted How do malignant diseases develop? In his recent publication, Oskar Haas from St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute suggests that the unique chromosome patterns, which define specific tumor types, arise from an accidental fusion of two normal cells – a process that simulates the fertilization of