December 2021

The god of sun at the forefront of immunodeficiency-research

The god of sun at the forefront of immunodeficiency-research Scientists link mutations in the transcription factor Helios to a novel disease characterized by immunodeficiency and immune dysregulation. When scientists at St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI) identified an immune dysregulation caused by a biallelic germline mutation affecting Helios – a transcription factor […]

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Alternative method to animal testing for developing therapies

Tackling two tasks at once: Alternative method to animal testing for developing therapies against childhood cancer Congratulations to St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI) scientists Univ. Prof. Dr. Heinrich Kovar and Dr. Branka Radic-Sarikas for winning a grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under the program “Alternative methods to animal testing”.

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Congrats to Davide Seruggia for receiving the ISTT Young Investigator Award!

ISTT Young Investigator Award 2021! The ISTT (International Society for Transgenic Technologies) Young Investigator Award identifies and recognizes young scientists who advance the science and technologies in the generation and analysis of transgenic animal models for biomedical research and biotechnology applications. Davide Seruggia received the award for his successful complex projects requiring advanced CRISPR technology:

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St. Anna CCRI research project ONTHETRRAC honored as “success story”

The ONTHETRRAC research team discovered new aspects of tumor heterogeneity and developed tools that are important for accurate diagnosis, prognosis and for overcoming treatment resistance of the nerve tumor neuroblastoma in children. In the December newsletter 2021 its work was therefore honored as a “success story” by the research promotion network European Research Area (ERA-NET).

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