7 December 2021

ISBUC researchers win big in Carlsberg Foundation Infrastructure Awards

INFRASTRUCTURE

This year, seven ISBUC researchers have received research infrastructure grants from the Carlsberg Foundation: Ulrik Gether, Pontus Gourdon, Nikos Hatzakis, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, Karen Martinez, Thomas Miller and Stephan Pless. 

Carlsberg Foundation 2021 Awards

This year, no less than seven ISBUC researchers have received infrastructure funding through the Carlsberg Foundation. The purpose of these grants are to build up facilities and tools which will benefit a lot of researchers ‘and thereby support outstanding basic research at the universities in general’. Click through below to read more about the new research infrastructure that ISBUC scientists have been awarded.

Recipient: Professor & Head of Department Ulrik Gether, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Grant title: Super-resolution microscopy - a key tool for dissecting synaptic architecture
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Recipient: Associate Professor Pontus Gourdon, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Grant title: Molecular determinants of membrane protein orchestration.
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Recipient: Associate Professor Nikos Hatzakis, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Grant title: Single molecule sequencing of oligosaccharides, SINGLECARB
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Recipient: Professor Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Grant title: Predicting the effects of missense variants using protein structure and sequence
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Recipient: Associate Professor Karen Martinez, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Grant title: Turnkey benchtop SU-8 station for applications in biology and chemistry
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Recipient: Associate Professor Thomas Miller, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Grant title: High-performance computing server for visualising the molecular mechanisms of eukaryotic DNA replication
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Recipient: Professor Stephan Pless, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Grant title: Functional characterisation of two essential protein components of the NALCN leak channel complex
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