MHH haematologist Dr Florian Perner has been awarded 2.2 million euros from the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for his research into epigenetic changes in blood stem cells and their role in the development of blood cancer. Leukocytes – colloquially known as white blood cells – protect us from pathogens and tumour cells. While their proliferation and renewal is normally strictly regulated, this process gets out of control in some people: the immature precursors of the…
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award 2024 goes to Johannes Karges. Dr. Johannes Karges (31), a chemist from Ruhr University Bochum, will be awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award 2024, the Scientific Council of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation announced today. The prizewinner discovered how platinum-containing chemotherapeutics accumulate in tumor tissue, and how, from here, they can be activated using either light or ultrasound as triggers. Karges already provided preclinical proof of these methods, whose…
The High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft, or HALO, has been making unparalleled contributions to Earth system research for over a decade. Not only that, but with its global measurement campaigns, the high-altitude research aircraft is a symbol of international scientific cooperation on key issues relating to atmospheric processes and their global impact on the climate. Under the leadership of meteorologist Professor Manfred Wendisch, Leipzig University has now secured 4.6 million euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to…
For this contribution to Sustainable Chemistry, the international expert jury of the Innovation Challenge honoured Indian the start-up Schutzen Chemical Group with the ISC3 Innovation Award 2023, endowed with 15,000 euros. If South Mumbai is flooded in seven years, 20 million people will lose their homes. The number of cases of cancer in children will rise by 37 percent this year. The mountains of garbage in his homeland are getting bigger and bigger. As one of eight finalists in the…
ERC grant for Dresden quantum physicist Hassinger. Elena Hassinger, a renowned low-temperature physicist from the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, has been awarded €2.7 million in funding by the European Research Council. This ERC Consolidator Grant will support her pioneering work on unconventional superconductors, which could lead to a breakthrough in topological quantum computing. Over the next five years, Hassinger’s research in Dresden will delve into the enigmatic properties of cerium-rhodium-arsenic (CeRh2As2) and explore similar quantum materials under extreme laboratory…
The MHH research project iGUARD is also successful in the third round of the SPRIND Challenge and receives follow-up funding to develop antiviral RNA-based drugs. Despite successful vaccine development, there are still no effective drugs for most viral diseases. In order to achieve a breakthrough, the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovations launched the SPRIND Challenge two years ago. The iGUARD (integrated Guided Ultrafast Antiviral RNAi Drug Development) project has already been funded twice and, as a finalist in the third…
1.5 Million Euros for Berlin Researcher… Dr. Dragomir Milovanovic, a neuroscientist at DZNE’s Berlin site, has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) “Starting Grant” worth 1.5 million euros to investigate biophysical phenomena relevant to brain diseases in a groundbreaking research project. Ultimately, the goal is to better understand the behavior of aberrant protein inclusions in neurodegenerative diseases. Human cells are complex entities comprising proteins, lipids and a wide number of other molecular spieces, some of them forming organized compartments,…
A surprising mechanism that makes some cancers treatment-resistant has been discovered by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The mechanism, which involves the shuttling of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, ultimately facilitates DNA repair in cancer cells. These cancer cells can thereby thwart treatments aimed at damaging their DNA. In a project encompassing both fundamental research and clinical studies they demonstrated that a combination of approved chemotherapies, one of which targets the DNA repair-facilitating mechanism, could…
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a 10 million Euro Synergy Grant to the project “UNIVERSE+: Positive Geometry in Particle Physics and Cosmology” led by a collaborative team with Max Planck directors Johannes Henn from the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and Bernd Sturmfels from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Leipzig. “Our team aims to create a new mathematical language” says Johannes Henn, the coordinating principal investigator of the project. “The goal is…
Physicists Win Prestigious IBM Award. Quantum challenge completed: A team of five, headed by quantum physicist Professor Ronny Thomale of the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat based at two universities in Würzburg and Dresden, secured second place in the international IBM Quantum Open Science Prize. The Würzburg research group managed to solve this year’s competition challenge on quantum magnetism. They devised an algorithm enabling IBM’s 16-qubit quantum chip to be trained to outperform conventional computing capabilities. This achievement could pave the…
New NSF grant supports ongoing research into proteins. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) researchers Amir Hirsa, professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, and Patrick Underhill, professor of chemical and biological engineering, have received a new three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $452,847 to study the physics of protein solutions using the ring-sheared drop module aboard the International Space Station. The grant starts on August 1, almost 10 years from the start of the ongoing NASA grant that…
Scott Forth receives $1.6 million grant to explore how chromosomes are segregated during cell division. It is a scary fact that one in two women and one in three men in the United States will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime. One of the hallmarks of many cancers is the occurrence of errors during the cell division process called mitosis. Therefore, critical to enhancing treatments or perhaps even finding a cure for cancer and other diseases, is developing…
European Innovation Council funds Europe-wide project led by TU Darmstadt. Magnets are key materials for the energy transition. However, they often consist of critical raw materials. Scientists led by TU Darmstadt are now researching alternative magnetic materials as part of the “CoCoMag“ project. The European Innovation Council (EIC) is funding the project with three million euros. Fossil fuels are increasingly being replaced by electricity generated from the sun, wind, and water. However, sufficient renewable energy is only the starting point…
The rising temperatures threatening life on our planet are caused in part by microbes that produce 50% of atmospheric methane, a gas 30 times more potent than CO2 at trapping heat. Surprisingly, another kind of microbe combats these rising temperatures by consuming up to 80% of methane released from ocean sediments. How are some microbes methane producers and others methane consumers? To solve this puzzle, an international team of researchers, Nikhil Malvankar (Yale University, USA), Carlos Salgueiro (NOVA University of…
Dr. Nataliya Yadzhak from Lviv/Ukraine, postdoctoral fellow and research associate for the Chair for Metals and Alloys at the University of Bayreuth, has been awarded a fellowship from the EU programme “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for Ukraine (MSCA4Ukraine)” on the proposal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. During the two-year fellowship, she will pursue a research project on hydrogen embrittlement of ferritic superalloys at the University of Bayreuth. Of the 26 research projects in Germany funded by the “MSCA4Ukraine” programme to…
Part of $2.5 million initiative led by NASA. The University of Texas at El Paso has joined a project led by NASA to leverage 3D-printing processes with the aim of manufacturing rechargeable batteries using lunar and Martian regolith, which is the top layer of materials that covers the surface of the moon and Mars. “UTEP is a national leader in additive manufacturing for space applications,” said Kenith Meissner, Ph.D., dean of the UTEP College of Engineering. “I congratulate the team…
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