The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved an extension of the Düsseldorf Collaborative Research Centre 1208 for the analysis of the identity and dynamics of biological membrane systems by a further four years from the beginning of 2020 to the end of 2023. The DFG's funding decision confirms that the life sciences play an outstanding role in HHU research.
"Over the past four years, we have laid an excellent foundation on which we can now continue to build. Initially, it was important to expand the respective core projects with the competencies of other groups and thus bring the synergy potential of the research network to life," explains Prof. Dr. Lutz Schmitt, spokesperson of the SFB at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. "40% of our publications would not have been possible without the SFB - we are very proud that our projects are so well integrated".
During the second term of the SFB, the intensive methodological and conceptual collaborations will be expanded to include current methods from physics, chemistry and synthetic life sciences and previously unrepresented membrane systems will be investigated. In this way, the importance of membrane biology and new technical developments are taken into account.