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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna

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Technology-driven biomedical research at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine & MedUni Vienna #cancer #immunology #bioinformatics #AI #singlecell #CRISPR

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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are recruiting PhD students in ML/AI methods & biomedical applications via the @ellis.eu PhD Program (ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...). Keywords: Perturbation modeling, generative AI, synthetic biology, cancer immunotherapy, precision medicine. Details: medical-epigenomics.org/files/PhD_St...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
CellWhisperer can now run on your laptop. Talk to your cells! And check out our paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data - Nature Biotechnology
CellWhisperer uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data.
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
HIRING: We recruit postdocs via the CeMM Pre-ERC Postdoc Program (cemm.at/postdoc-prog...). Seeking 3 types of candidates: (1) experimental systems biology in immunity or cancer; (2) bioinformatics & biomedical ML/AI; (3) tech-dev & bioengineering (CRISPR, single-cell, spatial, cell programming).
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CeMM Pre-ERC Postdoc Program
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
HIRING: We recruit PhD students via the AITHYRA-CeMM PhD Program (cemm.at/phd-program). Seeking 3 types of candidates: (1) experimental systems biology in immunity or cancer; (2) bioinformatics & biomedical ML/AI; (3) tech-dev & bioengineering (CRISPR, single-cell, spatial, cell programming) (1/5)
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CeMM PhD Program – Molecular Medicine Research in Vienna
Join the CeMM PhD Program in Vienna and pursue cutting-edge research in cancer, immunology, aging, and precision medicine. Applications open in 2025!
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 15/11/2025
A paper in Nature Biotechnology presents CellWhisperer, which uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data. go.nature.com/3XqzItR 🧬 🧪
This is figure 1, which gives an overview of the CellWhisperer multimodal AI for natural-language analysis of transcriptome data.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 11/11/2025
Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data - @bocklab.bsky.social @cemm.oeaw.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at go.nature.com/3WPGJnW
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Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data - Nature Biotechnology
CellWhisperer uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data.
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🗨️ Just published in Nature Biotechnology: Our CellWhisperer AI enables chat-based analysis of single-cell sequencing data. You can talk to your cells & figure out the biology without writing any computer code. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Annotated walkthrough in a thread below (1/11)
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CeMM @cemm.oeaw.ac.at · 11/11/2025
🗨️Chat with your cells, explore #CellWhisperer! CeMM PI Christoph Bock (@bocklab.bsky.social) together with @meduniwien.ac.at & @stanna-ccri.bsky.social have developed a new #AI tool that lets scientists explore single-cell data using plain English. ➡️ bit.ly/3JQqe87 📄 bit.ly/3WJCxGi
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🧬 CAR T cells demonstrate the power of engineered cells as therapeutics. But they fail for most patients. Can CRISPR help here? Our new paper in Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) presents a screening platform to optimize immunotherapies & discover boosters of CAR T cell function. (1/13)
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Myllia Biotechnology @mylliabio.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We’re thrilled to announce that the "High-Content CRISPR Screening" conference will take place on March 18–19, 2026, in Vienna, Austria. The registration is now open via the conference website: lnkd.in/d8KACZy5 Meet the Speaker: Christoph Bock @bocklab.bsky.social
Dr. Christoph Bock is a Principal Investigator at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Medical Informatics at the Medical University of Vienna. His research combines experimental biology (single-cell sequencing, epigenetics, CRISPR screening, synthetic biology) with computational methods (bioinformatics, machine learning, artificial intelligence) – for cancer, immunology, and precision medicine (https://www.bocklab.org & https://bsky.app/profile/bocklab.bsky.social).
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🛡️How do macrophages tailor their defenses to different pathogens? Our new paper in @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social combines dense multi-omics time series with high‐content CRISPR screens (CROP-seq) to map the regulatory landscape underlying macrophage immune responses: www.cell.com/cell-systems... (1/9)
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CeMM @cemm.oeaw.ac.at · 08/08/2025
🧬How do #macrophages respond so quickly to pathogens? A new study by CeMM & @meduniwien.ac.at researchers, led by @bocklab.bsky.social & @mfarlik.bsky.social, reveals key regulators of immune responses using gene editing & machine learning. ➡️ More info: bit.ly/40p5ABe 🔗 Study: bit.ly/4lwEAIm
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🔬 Toward histopathology 2.0: spatial transcriptomes inferred from routine diagnostic H&E images + a chat interface for cell-resolution histopathology through English language. (1/6)
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
POSTDOC OPPPORTUNITY: We are recruiting via the CeMM postdoc program. Looking for 3 types of candidates: 1. Bioinformatics & systems biology (e.g., immunology, neurobiology or cancer) 2. ML/AI methods for biology & precision medicine 3. Technology development & bioengineering Details below (1/3)
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
AI in medicine ready for takeoff 🤖🚁 We flew a drone through the Institute of Artificial Intelligence @MedUniWien. Join us for the trip and watch our team at "work". #AI #biomedicine #innovation #makingof (1/2)
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
AI in medicine ready for takeoff 🤖🚁 We flew a drone through the Institute of Artificial Intelligence @MedUniWien. Join us for the trip and watch our team at "work". #AI #biomedicine #innovation #makingof (1/2)
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
CeMM's new Research Report is online - a piece of art as always (link below). Each research group selected a mathematical formula that symbolizes their research and visualized it in a live-staged group picture. We picked Shannon entropy, as biomedicine is all about information (and sometimes messy)
Christoph Bock Lab - Group Picture - CeMM Research Report 2024
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Job Posting: Senior NGS Technology & Deputy Head of the Biomedical Sequencing Facility (CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences & Medical University of Vienna)
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Could a CRISPR screen help you discover new biology? Should you consider high-content readouts such as single-cell or spatial profiling? Check out our methods primer for a hands-on guide (www.nature.com/articles/s43...), co-authored by many experts in the field & now over 225,000 views/downloads.
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High-content CRISPR screening - Nature Reviews Methods Primers
CRISPR screening is a high-throughput approach for identifying genes, pathways and mechanisms involved in a given phenotype or biological process. High-content read-outs of these screens, such as imag...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
LAST CHANCE TO APPLY - DEADLINE 21 January 2025
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Moritz Schaefer @moritzbaio.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Thrilled to see our work with the @bocklab.bsky.social featured in 'The Scientist'! It's a really great read and builds on an interview I had with the @kamalnahas.bsky.social. www.the-scientist.com/an-ai-lab-pa...
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An AI Lab Partner Helps Sift Through Transcriptomics Data
Big omics datasets can be overwhelming for researchers with limited programming skills, but texting with a new AI chatbot could help them wade through their results.
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
HIRING: We offer several PhD student positions in the CeMM PhD Program. Looking for 3 types of candidates: experimental systems biology in cancer & immunity; bioinformatics & biomedical ML/AI; tech-dev & bioengineering. Join an a highly collaborative lab in molecular medicine. Details below (1/4)
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We are recruiting a Tenure-track Assistant Professor "Machine Learning in the Life Sciences" at the Medical University of Vienna. We will nominate the top candidate for a € 1.8 million starting grant by a Viennese foundation. Deadline: Dec 31st. Details: medical-epigenomics.org/files/Tenure...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
🗨️ WANNA TALK TO YOUR CELLS? Try out CellWhisperer – our new multimodal AI that turns single-cell RNA-seq analysis into a conversation. No coding needed, just chat in plain English. Short walkthrough below. Web app & bioRxiv preprint linked in the thread. Let's dive in! (1/9)
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
We are recruiting a PhD student in ML/AI methods and biomedical applications, within @ELLISforEurope & @humancellatlas. Keywords: Perturbation modeling, generative AI, synthetic biology, cancer immunotherapy, precision medicine. Great environment in Vienna. medical-epigenomics.org/files/PhD_St...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
Ready for an expedition into the unknown? We are recruiting two postdocs through the CeMM Postdoc Program. Our group combines ML/AI in bioinformatics, CRISPR & single-cell technology development, and biomedical applications in cancer & immunity. Details: www.cemm.at/fileadmin/us...
This is our group picture from the CeMM Research Report 2022. Can you spot Charles Darwin? More background here: https://cemm.at/news/n/cemm-research-report-2022
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
Thanks Nature Immunology for highlighting our paper with a Research Briefing, explaining the broader relevance with a bit of backstory and quotes from a reviewer and the editor. The paper is open access, but the Research Briefing is not – please use the following link for free access: rdcu.be/dGnH0
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Baseline JAK–STAT signaling maintains immune cell homeostasis
Nature Immunology - Homeostatic immune cells remain perpetually vigilant against pathogens. We found that baseline JAK–STAT signaling supports the characteristic transcriptional and...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
🧬 WHAT KEEPS IMMUNE CELLS AWAKE & ATTENTIVE? It’s their neighbors – stimulation from the tissue environment. We profiled epigenomes & transcriptomes of 12 JAK-STAT mutant mice and found surprisingly strong effects at homeostasis. Paper just out in Nature Immunology: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Would CRISPR screening help you discover new biology? Check out our methods primer for a hands-on guide (www.nature.com/articles/s43...), co-authored by many experts in the field. Published in 2022, this review has already >150,000 views/downloads (according to the journal). Thank you!
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High-content CRISPR screening - Nature Reviews Methods Primers
CRISPR screening is a high-throughput approach for identifying genes, pathways and mechanisms involved in a given phenotype or biological process. High-content read-outs of these screens, such as imag...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
DEADLINE APPROACHING: We are recruiting a Senior Bioinformatician / Biomedical Data Scientist for our research group at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine & the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of the Medical University of Vienna. Details: cemm.onlyfy.jobs/job/qy9y9wl6
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Congratulations @TKrausgruber for the 2023 Science Award of the Austrian Society of Dermatology and Venereology, recognizing our @ImmunityCP paper on sarcoidosis (with Georg Stary): doi.org/10.1016/j.im.... The prize was shared with Harald Kittler for great work on ML-based melanoma diagnostics.
ÖGDV Secretary General Regina Fink-Puches (left) and ÖGDV President Peter Wolf (second from left) conferring the 2023 Science Award of the Austrian Society of Dermatology and Venereology (ÖGDV) to Thomas Krausgruber (second from right) and Philipp Tschandl substituting for Harald Kittler right).
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
🧬[1/7] Vaccines educate our adaptive immune system, but some also boost innate immunity. We investigated who profits from this “wake-up call” to the immune system, in a prospective clinical study with 323 volunteers. Check out our new paper in @ImmunityCP doi.org/10.1016/j.im...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
My pleasure to share the talk videos of the "Convergence? Interfaces of the Digital and the Living" event, exploring five areas: 1 BODIES: Cyborgs abound? 2 BRAINS: Connected mind? 3 CELLS: Homo sapiens 2.0? 4 INTERACTIONS: I you we? 5 CULTURES: For peace and prosperity? tinyurl.com/ConvergenceV...
Lecture hall of the "Convergence? Interfaces of the Digital and the Living" symposium and workshop, which took place in Vienna on 17-18 October 2023.
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
We are recruiting a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in AI/ML research at the AI Institute at the Medical University of Vienna. We will nominate the top candidate for a € 1.6 million Vienna startup grant. Extra support earmarked for female candidates. Ad: www.medical-epigenomics.org/files/MedUni...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
We are recruiting a PhD student for deep learning methods and biomedical applications, within the ELLIS PhD Program & the Human Cell Atlas. Keywords: Causality, perturbation, synthetic biology, cancer, immunotherapy precision medicine. Great environment in Vienna bocklab.org
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ELLIS PhD Program: Call for applications 2023
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
We are hiring a Senior Biomedical Data Scientist for our lab at CeMM & the Medical University of Vienna. This is a senior staff position within the Bock Lab (bioinformatics, single-cell, CRISPR, cancer), with tenure-track option via @MedUni_Wien . Details: medical-epigenomics.org/files/Senior...
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
⭕#Convergence? Interfaces of the Digital and the Living The Symposium & Workshop on 17-18 October will explore the links between #informatics and the #lifesciences that are expected to change the way we live and die in the 21st century. Read more! bit.ly/3taVndS
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Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @bocklab.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
We study cancer and immunology, combining experimental biology with high-throughput technology, bioinformatic methods and machine learning. Our work is interdisciplinary and collaborative. We are equally committed to biological discovery and to advancing medicine.
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