MFPL is located at the Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC) (www.viennabiocenter.org), established in 1992 to connect eight life science departments doing research in molecular biology at the University of Vienna with the privately funded industry Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP, www.imp.ac.at). Since then, the Campus has grown both in size and intellectually, until the recent addition of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA, www.oeaw.ac.at) and Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI, www.oeaw.ac.at) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Today’s VBC is an internationally competitive research center with a staff of more than 900 scientists from 40 different countries and a scientific culture that fosters exchange among the partners.