Distinguished Faculty of Science Professor Albert Heck has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant. The 2.5 million Euro grant enables Heck’s team to develop cutting-edge techniques to gain a fundamentally deeper understanding of our immune system.
The Institute for Chemical Neuroscience has been awarded a 23.23 million euro Gravitation grant. Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ professor Maarten Kole is one of the applicants of the project.
The consortium of researchers will, for the first time, comprehensively chart the supervision of specific proteins within the cell, from cradle to grave.
Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ makes significant investments in mass spectrometry and proteomics infrastructure. The new infrastructure underscores the university’s pioneering and leading role in these scientific fields.
By modifying and boosting lab equipment, a team of chemists are able to measure individual molecules with unprecedented precision. Their massive resolution upgrading will benefit the fabrication of vaccines and molecular vectors used in gene therapy.