Research on how proteins (mis)fold
From the UU website Stefan Rüdiger is receiving 250,000 euros for research on Huntington’s disease. The grant is exceptional because of its funder: a fund that is run by patients and enables fundamental research to understand and cure the disease. “Just imagine how many doorbells you will have to ring to acquire such an amount … Read more
Congratulations to the new doctor! Dr. Mijnders On February 11th Marjolein Mijnders defended her thesis entitled “Unraveling the puzzle of CFTR domain assembly and folding” in the Akademiegebouw of University of Utrecht.
CPC congratulates the new doctor! Dr. Gollnast On January 7th Doron Gollnast defended his thesis entitled “Oxidative folding of influenza virus hemagglutinin subtypes” in the Akademiegebouw of University of Utrecht.
Tania Morán Luengo is a PhD candidate in the Cellular Protein Chemistry group, under supervision of Dr. Stefan Rüdiger. During her PhD project, Tania solved a central paradox how molecular chaperones can fold proteins and revised the current paradigm of how that process works. The results of her work is currently in press in the journal … Read more
Prof. Ineke Braakman, Professor of Cellular Protein Chemistry, will become the chair of the domain Exact and Natural Sciences (ENS) on January 1, 2017 of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). “The current board of NWO is delighted about the new appointments and looks forward to realising a supple and quick transfer in the autumn … Read more