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TWIST Fellowship Program

The internal “TWIST Fellowship Program” kick-starts the development of scientific findings into innovation. It allows alumni and postdocs of IST Austria to refine and explore their start-up ideas for one year.

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2022/03/08 · Uncategorized

New Job Portal for Careers within ISTA’s Innovation Ecosystem

IST cube’s number of portfolio companies is growing and so is the number of open positions As the number of portfolio companies of the IST cube venture fund has recently grown to 13, a job portal aggregating all open positions within IST cube’s and TWIST’s innovation ecosystem has been launched. Currently, there are over 25 […]

2022/02/21 · Uncategorized

Martin Hetzer appointed new president

Martin Hetzer will take over the position of President on January 1, 2023. Molecular biologist Martin Hetzer, who has spent close to 20 years conducting research in the USA and currently holds the position of Senior Vice President at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies will succeed long-time Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) President Tom […]

2022/01/13 · Uncategorized

1.5 Million Euros granted to Austrian Research Team

ISTA researcher gets to the bottom of animal movement behavior. Lora Sweeney is researching the locomotor behavior of frogs and other animals at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). For her new research project “swim2limb”, she and her team have now received a grant of 1.5 million Euros from the European Research Council (ERC). […]