Dr. Stefan Ameres
Founder

is a Molecular Biologist, Professor of RNA Biology at the University of Vienna, Group Leader at the Max Perutz Labs, Vienna, and Adjunct Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Vienna. Stefan received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Vienna, Austria, and conducted his postdoctoral research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, MA, USA. He has published over forty highly regarded papers in leading journals, which have been cited more than 6000 times, and he delivered more than seventy oral presentations at international conferences. Stefan received numerous prestigious awards and grants, including the Houska Award (B&C Private Foundation, 2018) and three ERC Grants. In 2016 he was selected as an EMBO Young Investigator, and he has been an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Young Academy) since 2015​​​​.

Dr. Johannes Zuber
Founder

is a Medical Doctor and since 2011 Group Leader at the IMP, Vienna. Following his MD graduation in 2003 and a clinical residency at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, he undertook postdoctoral research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), NY, USA. His outstanding scientific achievements are recorded in over 160 publications in leading peer review publications with over 8000 citations and 80 oral presentations at international conferences. Johannes has received two ERC Grants (2013, 2019), has been selected as an EMBO Young Investigator in 2014, and won the German Cancer Award (Deutscher Krebspreis) in 2016. In 2020, he has been promoted to Senior Scientist at the IMP.