(Vienna, 20.10.2021) Developing new therapies for childhood nerve tumors and identifying more molecular markers for better diagnosis – this is what Sabine Taschner-Mandl strives for in her new role as Executive Committee Board Member of the European Neuroblastoma Research Group SIOPEN. Sabine Taschner-Mandl, PhD, head of the Tumor Biology Research…
Sabine Taschner-Mandl is elected to the executive board of Europe’s neuroblastoma network SIOPEN
BOKU Talent and Best Paper Award for Charlotte Zajc!
(Vienna, 14.10.2021) CONGRATULATIONS to Charlotte Zajc, PhD, who is honored twice! The scientist from our Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory for Next Generation CAR T cells receives the BOKU Talent Award and the BOKU Best Paper Award from the City of Vienna Jubilee Funds. During her PhD studies, Charlotte Zajc designed…
EU Commissioner visits St. Anna: "Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan puts the spotlight on childhood cancer"
(Vienna, 08.09.2021) Childhood cancer is different from cancer in adults. Thus, it needs research specifically tailored to pediatric tumors, which requires dedicated funding. The need for medicines suitable for children, as well as improvements in long-term follow-up care for cancer survivors have been discussed with EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides,…
St. Anna scientist honored twice
(Salzburg, 02.10.21) ÖGKJ honors and awards Prof. Ruth Ladenstein, MD: The pediatric cancer researcher and physician receives not only the Clemens von Pirquet Award but also a prize for the best oncological publication. Every year, the Austrian Society for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (ÖGKJ) honors its members for outstanding scientific…
Benjamin Salzer and Charlotte Zajc win Life Science Research Awards
(Vienna, 20.09.2021) CONGRATULATIONS to Benjamin Salzer, PhD, and Charlotte Zajc, PhD, from our Christian Doppler Laboratory for Next Generation CAR T Cells! Both have won with their publication resulting from their doctoral thesis a first place at the Life Science Research Awards Austria 2021 – Benjamin Salzer (St. Anna Children's…
Kaan Boztug awarded the "Işil Berat Barlan Award for Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases"
(Vienna, 03.09.2021) Congratulations! Assoc.-Prof. Kaan Boztug, MD, Scientific Director of the St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases, has been awarded the Işil Berat Barlan Award for his outstanding research in the field of primary immunodeficiencies, which will be…
Bone marrow metastases for the first time analyzed cell by cell
(02.09.2021) When childhood nerve tumors, so-called neuroblastomas, form metastases, they preferentially do so in the bone marrow. A study by St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute shows for the first time the exact cell composition of such metastases. This knowledge forms the basis for the development of therapy concepts that…
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2021 - St. Anna CCRI under the sign of the gold ribbon
(Vienna, 01.09.2021) With our research, we aim to strike childhood cancer at its roots. In Austria, about 200 children and 100 adolescents are diagnosed with cancer each year. Thanks to research and the resulting major advances in treatment, 85% of affected children and adolescents are cured. However, about 30 children…
“Our results can have a direct impact on a child’s life”
(Vienna, 17.8.2021) Together with colleagues, Artem Kalinichenko (37) discovered a novel gene defect causing a life-threatening immune disorder. Profiled as a YoungStar by St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI), the scientist explains how to form a good hypothesis and under which circumstances he acquires aha-experiences. Artem Kalinichenko,…
Four FWF Stand Alone Projects recently approved at St. Anna CCRI
(12.08.2021) The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) awards four scientists from St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI) with Stand Alone Grants, each of which is worth almost € 400,000. Congratulations to the grantees Kaan Boztug, Eva König, Thomas Lion, and Eleni Tomazou! Getting a Stand-Alone Project approved from…