Holger Bartolf

DFG approves two new Collaborative Research Centers/Transregios with TUD participation covering agile mobility and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease 🔬 Outstanding success for #TUDresden researchers: In the latest Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation funding round, the establishment of the Collaborative Research Center CRC/Transregio 408 "AgiMo: Data-driven agile planning for responsible mobility" at TU Dresden and Technische Universität München has now been approved. The joint application of the CRC/Transregio 412 "Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: Translating mechanisms to tailored therapeutic concepts" of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - FU and HU Berlin along with TU Dresden was also successful. More info ➡️ https://lnkd.in/esDCv9Dj

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Winter series "Prominent Researchers at RWTH" Ulrich Schwaneberg’s team designs new-to-nature proteins which would require microscopes with nanometer-sized resolution to observe them at work. Professor Schwaneberg, Head of the Institute of Biotechnology at RWTH Aachen University and member of the scientific board of directors at the DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, designs functional proteins and enzymes as customized high-performance nanomachines for applications in the production of valuable chemicals and material science applications. As such, he and his team pave the way for a biological transformation of materials science and empower the biological transformation of industries. He came to Aachen in 2009, having previously worked as a postdoc with the Nobel laureate Frances H. Arnold at Caltech in California and published jointly with her groundbreaking methodologies for directed enzyme evolution. Early on, he recognized the importance of the bioeconomy and initiated the Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC; a 58 million euro project) on behalf of RWTH. He has served on the BioSC Board of Directors since it was founded in 2013. In the bioeconomy model region, he and Professor Thomas Bergs, Director of the Manufacturing Technology Institute – MTI der RWTH Aachen, won Ulrich Schwaneberg – Driver of the Transformation one of two flagship projects, the Bio4MatPro Competence Center (26.4 million euros), as a follow-up project. 👍 His work ranges from “disruptive basic research,” as Schwaneberg puts it, to industrial applications. For instance, biofunctional building blocks from the Aachen laboratories are a game changer in many areas: in detergents, in the production of chemical substances, in medicine, in plant health, as biophosphates recycling/valorization, as water or pathogen repellents on textiles, or as switchable adhesives to enable a recycling economy. “We don’t keep our research in the laboratory and design new-to-nature proteins. Thanks to our methodological expertise in protein design, which allows us to generate and screen millions of protein variants experimentally and to decipher basic design principles using computer simulations and AI/machine learning systems, we support many companies that come to us with their problems,” says Schwaneberg. Click here for the complete RWTH Annual Report 2023: ➡ www.rwth-aachen.de/report 📸 : Peter Winandy #research #researcher #science #scientists #Biotechnology

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