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Advanced Cell Culture Technologies

The third “Advanced Cell Culture Technologies” workshop, organized by the ÖGMBT (Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology) working group “Cell-Based Assays, Therapies and Products”, took place at BOKU during the first week of July.

Award from the City of Vienna

Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern was one of the main winners of the City of Vienna's award for outstanding achievements in culture and science.

 

Rising Star Award

Dr. David Cocovi-Solberg honored for his contributions to flow injection analysis and presented groundbreaking research on new valves for miniaturized HPLC systems.

 

Award for Nicole Borth

BOKU´s seminal contribution to „ transforming biopharmaceutical manufacturing was acknowledged by the ESACT Innovation Award 2024 at the ESACT meeting in Edinburgh on June 23rd.

Starting signal for DANUBElifelines

With the ambitious goal of restoring river corridors in the Danube catchment area, the EU-funded DANUBElifelines (DLL) project has officially started in Vienna. The project is coordinated by BOKU University, where the kick-off event also took place.

Awarding of honours at BOKU

Andrea Reithmayer, Maria Patek and Pavel Tlustoš were honoured for their outstanding achievements.

 
 

ELLS Scientific Student Conference

BOKU students received 4 presentation awards at the ELLS student conference in Wageningen. We congratulate Kilian Wallner, Gregor Nowotny, Martin Ladurner and Rosina Neubauer!
 

S&B Business Award 2025

The BOKU/MUW spin-off Rockfish Bio AG was honored in May 2025 with the Science & Business Award (S&B Award) of the Rudolf Sallinger Fund, receiving the main prize of €20,000.
 

Sustainability Day on November 20th

During the 10th BOKU Sustainability Day, Eleonora Charlotte Pichler and Ulrich Sukop from the Department of Food Science and Technology won the first prize with their Pecha-Kucha presentations in the categories Dissertation/Publication and Master’s Thesis.