Max Perutz Labs
{{Infobox institute
| name = Max Perutz Labs Vienna
| image = MPL-Logo-RGB-Blau-2019-05-24.jpg
| established = 2005
| city = Dr. Bohr-Gasse 9
1030 Vienna
Austria
| head_label = Scientific director
| head = Alwin Köhler
| parent = University of Vienna
Medical University of Vienna
| website = {{url|maxperutzlabs.ac.at}}
}}
The Max Perutz Labs Vienna are a molecular biology research centre operated jointly by the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna{{cite web | last=Vienna | first=Medical University of | title=Kooperationen | website=Medical University of Vienna | url=https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/en/about-us/cooperation/ | access-date=2018-02-17}} located at the Vienna Biocenter. The institute is named after the Viennese-born biochemist and Nobel laureate Max Ferdinand Perutz. On average, the institute hosts 50 independent research groups. Max Perutz Labs scientists participate in the undergraduate curricula for students of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna.
History
The Max Perutz Labs Vienna were founded in 2005, named after the Viennese-born biochemist Max Ferdinand Perutz, who emigrated to England after graduating in Chemistry from the University of Vienna. In Cambridge, he helped to set up the Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry together with John Kendrew in 1962, for their studies of the structures of globular proteins.{{cite web | title=MFPL History | website=Home | url=https://www.mfpl.ac.at/about-us/the-mfpl/mfpl-history.html | access-date=2018-02-18}}
Awards and honours
Max Perutz Labs former group leader Emmanuelle Charpentier received the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the CRISPR/Cas9 system, done partly in Vienna.{{cite journal | last=Abbott | first=Alison | title=The quiet revolutionary: How the co-discovery of CRISPR explosively changed Emmanuelle Charpentier's life | journal=Nature | publisher=Springer Nature | volume=532 | issue=7600 | date=2016-04-27 | issn=0028-0836 | doi=10.1038/532432a | pmid=27121823 | url=https://www.nature.com/news/the-quiet-revolutionary-how-the-co-discovery-of-crispr-explosively-changed-emmanuelle-charpentier-s-life-1.19814 | pages=432–434| doi-access=free }}{{cite web | last=| first= | title=Genetik-Revolution: Emmanuelle Charpentier, die Frau mit den DNA-Scheren | website=derStandard.at | date=2015-12-31 | url=https://derstandard.at/2000028295020/Die-Frau-mit-den-DNA-Scheren | language=de | access-date=2018-02-18}}{{cite web | title=Breakthrough Prize for Emmanuelle Charpentier | website=MFPL | url=http://www.mfpl.ac.at/about-us/news/article/news-detail/breakthrough-prize-for-emmanuelle-charpentier.html | access-date=2018-02-18}}{{cite journal | last=Jinek | first=Martin | last2=Chylinski | first2=Krzysztof | last3=Fonfara | first3=Ines | last4=Hauer | first4=Michael | last5=Doudna | first5=Jennifer A. | last6=Charpentier | first6=Emmanuelle | title=A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity | journal=Science | volume=337 | issue=6096 | pages=816–821 | date=2012-06-28 | issn=0036-8075 | pmid=22745249 | doi=10.1126/science.1225829 | pmc=6286148 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020|website=The Nobel Prize|access-date=2020-10-08}}
As of June 2019, scientists of the Max Perutz Labs have been awarded 14 ERC grants.{{cite web | title=Two ERC Consolidator Grants for the MFPL | website=Home | url=http://www.mfpl.ac.at/about-us/news/article/news-detail/two-erc-consolidator-grants-for-the-mfpl-1.html | access-date=2018-02-18}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/about|title=Max Perutz Labs at a glance|website=Max Perutz Labs|access-date=2019-06-17}}{{Cite web |title="Max Perutz Labs at a glance" |url=https://www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/about |archive-date= |access-date=2022-03-09}}{{Cite web |date=2022-02-22 |title=ERC grant for Thomas Juffmann |url=https://www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/news/latest-news/l/erc-grant-for-thomas-juffmann-100254 |access-date=2022-03-09}}{{Cite web |date=2020-12-09 |title=Exploring the molecular basis of heredity: ERC grant for Joao Matos |url=https://www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/news/latest-news/l/exploring-the-molecular-basis-of-heredity-erc-grant-for-joao-matos-100190 |access-date=2022-03-09}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/}}
{{Vienna Biocenter}}
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