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23.07.2025: Time to celebrate! Gabriel and Christina (just look for the two biggest smiles in the middle of the picture) have *both* been awarded the prestigious DOC fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for their super cool PhD projects!! We cheered to the amazing news Austrian style -at a beer garden! A big well done to both!!

25.06.2025: Today, we said our farewells to our beloved lab member, Lisi, who had been here for many great years. She bloomed in the FG lab from a PhD student to a postdoc, and truly was the go-to-person for every single one of us. Thank you Lisi, for being the mentor to so many generations of lab members! We will forever cherish the kindness and positivity that you radiated. We wish you all the very best in your new role at AITHYRA, and will surely keep in touch! ❤

15.04.2025: We’re excited to welcome Alice, who just joined our lab as a new PhD student and is already knee-deep in experiments! Welcome to the lab – may your PCRs be clean, your coffee strong and your reviewers kind!

06.04.2025: We conquered the relay marathon together and made it to the finish line – despite cold and windy weather. Tough conditions, but an even tougher crew!💪

25.01.2025: From the lab to the dance floor! We had an amazing night at the Vienna Science Ball 2025, proving that our experiments aren’t the only things that sparkle 💃🕺

09.01.2025: Today we say our goodbyes to our beloved PhD student Selina. She has been the rock of the lab, and will now be chasing a great career and the Sun in beautiful Barcelona. We will miss you a lot and wish you all the best for the new chapter of your life. ¡Hasta la vista!

16.12.2024: Huge Congratulations to Dr. Proietti! 🎓✨ Today, we celebrate an incredible milestone: Ludo has successfully defended her PhD thesis! This achievement reflects her hard work, dedication, and passion for advancing knowledge in the role of P-bodies in myeloid cancer. While we’ll deeply miss her as she moves on to new adventures, we’re excited for all that lies ahead for her. Wishing you every success, dear Dr. Ludo Proietti!

04.12.2024: Festive cheer, great company, delicious food and drink – we had such a wonderful time at this year’s Christmas party! Thank you to everyone who joined and helped make it a memorable celebration. Here’s to ending the year on a high note and looking forward to all the exciting science the next year will bring! 🎅🎄

29.11.2024: Today we say goodbye to two wonderful members of our lab. To Sophie – thank you for all your hard work in bioinformatics and the contributions you’ve made to our research. To Gabi – we’ll miss you as you prepare for this new exciting chapter in life. We wish you both all the best and will miss you a lot in the lab, but we’re sure we’ll stay in touch!

22.11.2024: For the last two weeks we had the pleasure to host Tamara Benz from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. She introduced us to an exciting new method for the generation of chromosomal translocations and never lost her patience with our many questions. It was a pleasure to have you with us!

07.11.2024: Huge congratulations to Ecem and Martin for winning poster awards at the Vetmeduni Science Day! Here’s to many more achievements and continued success in your scientific journeys!

05.10.2024: Last Saturday we joined again the cancer research run organized by the Medical university of Vienna. It takes place in the pretty courtyards of the Altes AKH, where you run as many laps of 1 mile as you can and enjoy a sportive event in a positive atmosphere!

12.09.2024: We had a splendid time at this year’s CCRI Summer party at Glacis Beisl in Vienna, near MQ. Great food (especially the sweet dumplings!), nice conversations and a photo box!

27.06.2024: Yet another farewell – today we said Goodbye to Anna, who has been with us since 2019. We will miss your happy and optimistic personality and wish you all the best for your future!

13.-16.06.2024: Ecem, Selina and Florian enjoying the most recent advances in clinical and translational hematology research at the 29th European Hematology Association Congress in Madrid. This was also the final meeting for Ecem’s Innovative Training Group INTERCEPT-MDS funded by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

13.-15.06.2024: The first ever contribution of the Grebien Lab to the sarcoma research community at the EuSARC meeting in Le Pouliguen, France. Great job Gabi!

05.-08.06.2024: Cutting-edge science and exciting discussions covering inquiries in pediatric hematology and oncology – Martin and Florian had a great time at the 35th Kind-Phillip-Meeting in Wilsede.

02.05.2024: Today we had to say Goodbye to our dear lab member Ludo. How sad to part after such a great time with you. Thank you so much for being part of the FG gang! We wish you all the best for your next adventures in Milano!

21.04.2024: What a day! Seven brave runners from the Grebien Lab participated in this years Vienna City Marathon Relay. Together with the CCRI, 9 Teams in total braved the 42km through the city of Vienna. The weather was glorious and it was a superb event! A big ‘Thank you’ to Theresa Kröswagn from CCRI who organised the event for us!

05.04.2024: A big well done to Selina, who received the Young Investigator Award at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association of Hematology & Oncology (OeGHO Frühjahrstagung) 2024!

05.02./04.03.2024: A very warm welcome to our two new Master’s students. Sophie will be working closely together with our bioinformatician Thomas on our fast NGS data collection. Anna will be investigating Evi1 in AML. Looking forward to working with both of you!

15.01.2024: Big congratulations to our PhD Students -Ludo, Ecem, and Selina- who have won 1st and 2nd place prizes at the annual VetMed awards for Research for their posters that they presented in at least one international research conference in the last year!

07.12.2023: We had punsch and glühwein followed by our lab Christmas dinner at caffè latte, together with the members of the Neubauer lab! 🎄​🎁​🍷 ​

08.11.2023: Melanie attended the ceremony to receive the prestigious Doc Fellowship awarded to her by the Austrian Academy of Science (Österreichische Akedemie der Wissenschaften, ÖAW), which will fund her research on biomolecular condensates in fusion protein-driven leukaemia for another two years! Congratulations Meli!

30.10.2023: We welcome Simone, our new MSc student from Sweden, who will do her thesis work with us under the Erasmus+ Traineeship programme.

26.09.2023: This tuesday, Jessi successfully defended her PhD thesis “Identification of new drug targets in Acute Myeloid Leukemia”. She did an excellent job in presenting her work and answering the many questions from the committee! Afterwards we had some drinks and a nice flade at the Fladerei in Berggasse. Congratulations, Jessica Ebner-Jahn!

September 2023: A very warm welcome to Christina Horstmann, our new PhD student in the lab! Looking forward to working with you!

11.22.-09.2023: Ecem was kindly hosted by GenomeScan B.V. in Leiden, The Netherlands for her ITN secondment, where she was trained in and learned about many ways of using Next Generation Sequencing for various applications!

23.06.2023: Congratulations to our PhD fellow Melanie Allram for being awarded a competitive DOC PhD Fellowship by the ÖAW to study biomolecular condensation in AML!

15.05.2023: A very warm welcome to Laura Quell! Our new technician started mid of May and is already contributing to many different projects in the lab. We are looking forward to working with you!

18.-20.05.2023: This year, Florian and Gabi attended EuSarc, hosted by CCRI Vienna, a Europe-wide group of dedicated scientists and clinicians holding regular meetings to bridge the gap between basic and clinical research on sarcomas. Florian gave a great talk and we met lots of highly motivated and nice scientists. Looking forward to future collaborations!

07.05.23: Back home from the FEBS workshop on Molecular and Cellular Pathways of Aging in Hematopoiesis in Crete . Florian and Ludo had a great time, discussed exciting science and caught up with the ARCH fellows one last time. A huge thank to John Stroboulis (King’s College London) and Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid (Max Plank Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics) for organizing such a great closing event for the ARCH project!

23.04.23: This year we joined the Vienna City Marathon again with one relay team “AMLaufen”. Gabi (15k), Lisa from the Sexl Lab (8.6k), Martin (6.7k) and Selina (11.2k) joined the fun and we were quite happy with our result. 🥳 Afterwards we met up at Café Benno for well deserved food and drinks!

March 2023: A very warm wellcome to Gabriel Kaufmann, the new PhD student in our lab. We are very much looking forward to work with you!

20.02.23: We had a great outing with the Institute of Medical Biochemistry, visiting the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory Augarten followed by delicious nibbles and drinks at Café Ansari 🤤🍹

14.12.22: Lots of fun with Secret Santa and beautiful fairy light decoration (thanks Ecem!) followed by Tapas at Puerto Del Sol with our friends from the Richard Moriggl lab 🎄🎅⭐

24.11.22: We’re very proud to have been part of Green Labs Austria for nearly one year. On 24.11. we attended a workshop organized by them, during which we met with other researchers, plastic producers and recyclers to discuss how to make single use plastic in the lab more sustainable. ♻️

23.11.22: Two prizes for the Grebien Lab at the Vetmeduni Science Day 2022! Congratulations to Gabi and Florian for winning “Most cited young researcher in 2021/2022” and “Most Third-Party Funding acquired in 2021/2022”! 🥳

28.9.-1.10.22: What an incredible experience the European Researchers Night! On September 30th Ludo, together with the MSCA fellows of the ARCH project, attended the European Researchers Night at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. They organised a dissemination activity for kids, who had the chance to learn about haematopoiesis in a fun way: a treasure hunt!

26.9.2022: Congratulations to Bernhard, who very successfully defended his MSc today! Well done from all of us and good luck for your future! We’ll surely stay in touch!

29.8.-3.9.2022: We had a fantastic time at Spetses Summer School 2022 in Cancer Epigenetics where Ludo, Selina, Melanie and Ecem had the opportunity to present their work in the form of posters. Selina was even selected by the poster committee to give a short talk about her research! Florian, as an invited speaker, also gave a lecture to highlight the recent advances in our lab. We thank INTERCEPT-MDS for organising such a wonderful event!!

21.06.2022: Today Anna Vidal went to receive the prestigious Doc Fellowship awarded to her by the Austrian Academy of Science (Österreichische Akedemie der Wissenschaften, ÖAW). This will fund her research on brain metastasis in melanoma for another 2 years! Congratulations Anna, very well done!

9.-12.6.2022: This year the Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) took place in Vienna. Therefore, our whole group had the chance to hear loads of exciting talks with some of us contributing with their own work. Congratulations to Selina and Lisi for their great talks and to Ludo for her Poster presentation! On Saturday, we enjoyed the EHA party at “Die Allee” in Prater including nice food, drinks and even bowling. (Now we know, we will stay in science and not go for a professional bowling carreer!)

21.5.2022: Today we had a great time at the Open Day at VetMeduni. For a whole day the university was open for visitors to learn about working & studying at Vetmed with lots of exciting things to see and try out. At our stand “Willkommen im Paradeis” younger and older children could isolate DNA from a tomato and learn fascinating facts about the genome. Did you know, that our DNA is 50% identical to the DNA of a banana?

20./21.5.2022: This weekend we thoroughly enjoyed the birthday symposium of 15 years of the Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) and 60 years of Giulio Superti-Furga. After listening to lots of exciting talks in the House of Industry in Vienna at Schwarzenbergplatz, we had a great evening at the Gala Dinner at Palais Ferstl.

April 2022: A very warm welcome to Pablo, our new post doc in the lab, who just started this month. We are very much looking forward to work with you!

24.4.2022: Today we joined the relay of the Vienna City Marathon in two teams: AMLaufen with Gabi, Lisi, Florian and Meli and AMLaufen2 with Thomas, Patricia, Lisa – our special guest from the Sexl Lab – and Selina. We are happy we made it all in one piece and enjoyed our well deserved dinner and drinks at Café Rüdigerhof afterwards.

8.4.-9.4.22: Congratulations to Elizabeth for receiving the Young Investigator Award at the OeGHO Frühjahrstagung 2022!

7.4.22: Today Peter (from helfenstattwegwerfen.at) came to pick up all the PE and PP tubes and tips that we and the Moriggl-Lab collected in the lab. Together we managed to gather 42kg of plastic waste that will be subsequently recycled. Peter kindly took the time to explain what exactly happens to the plastic, how it is separated, washed and shredded, to be eventually re-used. We hope to motivate more and more labs @Vetmeduni to join us for a more sustainable research! Check out greenlabsaustria.at for lots of useful information on this topic.

_{Photos by Stephanie Scholz / Vetmeduni}

1.3.22: A very warm welcome to our new students! From left to right: Jisha joins us for her bachelor practical. Paula and Irene are starting their master internship with us. We are looking forward to work with you!

11.2.2022: (Almost) all the girls of the group still top-motivated on a Friday afternoon #WomenInScienceDay

1.2.2022: Welcome to our new MSc student Patricia, already working away in the lab 🙂 We look forward to working with you!

31.1.2022: The Grebien Lab is becoming a Green Lab! 🌱 With the inspiration of the Moriggl Lab and the help of Green Labs Austria we are now collecting PP and PE plastic to be recycled!

13.-14.12.2021: Great 3 days meeting in Rome with the PhD students and PIs of the Marie Curie ARCH project (and with plenty of food)! It was a pleasure for Ludo and Florian to meet you all in person!

9.12.2021: “Snow is falling all around us! Children playing, having fun!” Also our PhD and master students are having fun @Vetmed. ***Let it snow, let it snow, let is snow some more!***

11.11.2021: Selina is unstoppable! At the Science Day at VetMed she won not only one, but TWO prizes. Very well deserved, congratulations from all of us!

08.11.2021: Congratulations again to Selina Tröster, for being awarded a competitive DOC PhD Fellowship by the ÖAW to establish a novel protein degradation model to study NUP98-fusion proteins in AML! Here she is at the award ceremony.

4.10.21: Also welcome to the lab Ecem, our new PhD student – we look forward to working together! 🙂

4.10.21: Welcome Marketa (from the Czech Republic), Samantha and Rathick (from Switzerland) who are joining us in the lab for the next three months – we look forward to working together!

29.09.21: Today we had to say goodbye to our dear lab member and friend Jessi, who has been at the lab for almost six years! We will miss you loads (but we know we will stay in touch)! At the same time, we celebrated the successful MSc defense of her student Martin – very well done and all the best for your future!

19.-21.09.2021: Just back from our outing in the Gesäuse! Together with the lab of Richard Moriggl, we spent two happy days in the Admonter Haus in the Ennstaler Alps in Styria, hiking, climbing, playing card games and networking. Many thanks to our wonderful host Gottfried who provided perfect food, drinks and company – highly recommended!

21.09.2021: Huge congratulations to our former colleague Stefan Terlecki-Zaniewicz for winning the Life Science PhD Award Austria 2021. He was honored at the ÖGMBT (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Molekulare Biowissenschaften und Biotechnologie) annual meeting for his dissertation, in which he explains intricate molecular mechanisms underlying leukemias with NUP98 fusions.

08.09.2021: What a beautiful day for our institute’s outing! We first had a tour of the Botanical Gardens here at Vetmed University and then went for dinner by the Alte Donau.

07.09.2021: Goodbye to our lovely and hard-working summer intern Theresa! Here she is in her last week, instructing our other two interns 🙂

16.08.2021: A very warm welcome to our new MSc student Bernhard, already working hard in the lab! We look forward to working with you 🙂

11.08.2021: Congratulations to Edwin, who very successfully defended his BSc last week! Well done from all of us and good luck with your future endeavours! We’re sure we’ll stay in touch 🙂

05.07.2021: A very warm welcome to our summer intern Theresa! We’re looking forward to working with you! 🙂

24.06.2021: Great (and very hot!) day hiking in Helenental on our first lab outing in a very long time! We finished our tour at a Heurigen in Baden with large amounts of well-deserved Schnitzel!

28.04.2021: Yet another award from the FG Lab! Big congratulations to Jessica for winning the first prize of 5000 EUR for her poster at the CCC-TRIO Symposium! Find more information here at CCC-TRIO-Award.

08.04.2021: Big congratulations to Selina on winning the “Jubiläumspreis” at the OeGHO and AHOP Frühjahrstagung 2021!

06.04.2021: A very warm welcome to the lab to our newest PhD student Melanie! We’re looking forward to working with you 🙂

17.03.2021: We are very proud and veeery happy to announce:  Elizabeth Heyes, PhD!!  After working hard during the last years and publishing her first author paper in February (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41375-021-01169-6), Lisi successfully defended her thesis on the 17th of March this year!

17.11.2020: Congratulations Joey, who did fantastic job defending his thesis on the 17^th of November! We hope we can celebrate in person soon, but until then we can have more online celebrations 🙂 Good luck for your PostDoc and we’ll definitely stay in touch!

02.10.2020: Congratulations to Stefan, who successfully defended his thesis on the 30^th of September! It was great we got to celebrate together (socially distanced of course), as well as cheering you on via WebEx! 🙂 We wish you all the best with your future plans and hope to stay in touch!

31.07.2020: Goodbye to our fantastic and always smiling colleague and friend Theresa – It was a pleasure working with you and we’ll miss you a lot! Good luck with all your future plans, we’ll definitely stay in touch 🙂

13.07.2020: Welcome to the lab Edwin (8 week intern) and Martin (MSc student). We look forward to working with you!

25.06.2020: Goodbye to our fantastic colleague Joey – you’ll be greatly missed! We wish you all the best for the future and hope to stay in touch 🙂

02.06.2020: Congratulations to our motivated and brilliant PhD fellow, Selina Tröster, for being awarded a competitive DOC PhD Fellowship by the ÖAW to establish a novel protein degradation model to study NUP98-fusion proteins in AML!

29.05.2020: Goodbye to our lovely intern Helene, still working hard on her last day!

06.05.2020: Happy to be back working in the lab! 🙂

28.04.2020: Exciting work on NUP98-fusion proteins and their targets in AML – out today in Blood Journal. Congratulations Joey and all involved!!! Available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32344427

25.02.2020: Congratulations Theresa on successfully defending your MSc thesis today! Very well done 👍

03.02.2020: Warm welcome to our three new students Atefa (2-week intern), Helene (2-month intern) and Ludovica (our new PhD fellow)!

30.01.2020: Today it was goodbye to our great intern Daniel. We wish you all the best for the future and hope to see you again sometime!

25.01.2020: Dancing all night at the #Sciball20 with the FG lab and friends!

16.01.2020: The day we learned why Schlumberger is the best sparkling wine in the world! The whole institute joined for the tour of the “Schlumberger Kellerwelten” and then dinner afterwards.

06.12.2019: Great christmassy evening with our friends from the former LBI-CR – enjoying punch and mulled wine at the Christmas market and then Tapas for dinner!

29.11.2019: Farewell Luisa and Stefan – you were both fantastic PhD colleagues and will be greatly missed! We wish both of you all the best for the future!

28.11.2019: Goodbye to our smiley interns Tami (3 months) and Theresa (11 months, MSc to be). We’ll miss you!

27.11.2019: Well done Lisi for winning the public poster award at Vetmeduni Vienna!

05.11.2019: Congratulations Luisa for successfully defending your PhD! We are all very proud of you and will miss you in the lab.

16.-17.09.2019: Comparative Pathology Meeting 2019 in Krems. Keeping in touch with former members of LBI-CR. Great science, good food and fun activities!

11.09.2019: Summer students at the FG lab – we are always happy to have additional help and interested future researchers.

05.09.2019: FG Lab at the Wien Energie Business Run 2019. Two teams, fast runners, lots of fun and to top it up – a lot of food at the end! 🙂

30.08.2019: Farewell party and dinner for our wonderful PostDoc Fabio, he will be greatly missed! We wish him all the best for the exciting months ahead and hope to keep in touch.

15.06.2019: Fabio, Florian and Lisi after her poster pitch at the European Hematology Association (EHA) Congress 2019 in Amsterdam.

25.05.2019 : Isolating DNA from tomatoes at Vetmed Open Day!

07.04.2019: Relay team ‘AMLaufen’ running the Vienna City Marathon 2019!

28.02.2019: Vetmed Ski Day at Stuhleck with the girls from the Sexl Lab.

13.12.2018: Afterwork ice-skating with our friends from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research (LBI-CR) at Rathausplatz.

30.11.2018: Congrats Joey for the Best Abstract Award at the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) Health Meeting! Celebrating with Punsch at Christkindlmarkt Schönbrunn.

19.10.2018: Luisa presenting her work at the Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI) “From Lab to Life” Meeting. Great job!

29.09.2018: The FG group at the Jahrestagung der Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizerischen Gesellschaften für Hämatologie und Medizinische Onkologie in Vienna. Three great talks and one poster prize. Great job everybody!