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The European Research Council (ERC) encourages excellent research in Europe to promote visionary projects and open up new interdisciplinary science areas. Three young research group leaders at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried near Munich succeeded in obtaining one of the coveted “ERC Starting Grants”. Out of more than 3100 applications, only 403 researchers were selected in this year’s competition. Spread over a period of five years, Hannes Mutschler, Danny Nedialkova, and Karl Duderstadt will receive up to € 1.5 million each for their research on fundamental questions of life. more

Brenda Schulman, head of the department „Molecular Machines and Signaling“ at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried receives the Advanced Grant of the European Research Council. It comes with a funding of 2.2 million Euros over five years. Together with her team, Schulman wants to find out the numerous ways the ubiquitin-like protein NEDD8 activates hundreds of distinct but related ubiquitin ligase machineries. The understanding of these protein machineries on structural, functional, and cellular levels will help to understand a large family of regulatory complexes that controla major part of eukaryotic biology, like immunity or cell division and thereby plays a central role in many diseases. more

Naoko Mizuno, head of the research group “Cellular and Membrane Trafficking” at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). more

Hannes Mutschler, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Martinsried, together with Dora Tang and Moritz Kreysing from the MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, received 1.3 million euros in research funding from the Volkswagen Foundation. more

Naoko Mizuno from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried has been awarded funding of 900,000 euros over three years as part of the Plus 3 Perspective Programme of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation. The programme supports outstanding heads of junior research groups in the development of their research profiles with a view to obtaining a professorial appointment in the future. It also aims to improve the quality of basic medical research. more