The Volkswagen Foundation is funding a five-year collaborative project led by the University of Göttingen with two million euros. The project will investigate how enzymes, nature’s highly efficient catalysts, utilize electric fields to control chemical reactions rapidly, selectively, and under mild conditions.
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Four scientists from our institute – Patrick Cramer, Stefan Hell, Klaus-Armin Nave, and Johannes Söding – are on Clarivate’s “Highly Cited Researchers 2025” list, placing them among the most cited scientists in their fields worldwide.
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The CHAPEROME project, now awarded an ERC Synergy Grant, aims to uncover how molecular folding helpers – known as chaperones – work together with the translation machinery to keep cells functional and adaptable.
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In a large interdisciplinary collaboration, researchers led by Noa Lipstein and Nils Brose have discovered a new developmental disorder that can be traced back to variations in the UNC13A gene.
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Our institute’s art exhibition series Kunst am Fassberg returns after three years. From October 23 to November 24, abstract artist Birgit Egen will be exhibiting her work in an exhibition entitled FARBCODE.
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