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Excellent research at MLU: Millions in funding for graduate school 2467 (11/10/2023)

Important research success for the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU): The German Research Foundation is once again funding MLU's GRK 2467 graduate school with around five million euros. This means that the successful training of doctoral students in the areas of protein and plant research can be continued and expanded. The graduate school investigates the special class of intrinsically disordered proteins, which is also responsible for many serious diseases.

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Basic research to the NMR characterization of the molecular chaperone SlyD leads to medical applications

The molecular chaperone SlyD (sensitive to lysis D), which has been characterized for many years in the MLU biophysics group, is used in the corona antibody test Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2-S and paves the way to the development of new antibiotics against resistant bacterial strains. These perspectives were published in the renowned journal “Science” together with Prof. Dr. Milton T. Stubbs published.

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SlD model

SlD model

SlD model







New research group of the German Research Foundationaddressing RNA and cancer

The German Research Foundation(DFG) is funding a new research group at the Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) with seven million euros. The focus of the research is on special RNA molecules and proteins that are probably involved in the formation of tumors. The aim is to understand the underlying mechanisms and thus develop new treatment approaches.

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Growing and surviving: how proteins regulate the cell cycle

Cell division is the basis of all life. Even the smallest errors in this complex process can lead to grave diseases like cancer. Certain proteins have to be switched on or off at certain times for everything to go according to plan. Biophysicists and medical biochemists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have managed to describe the underlying mechanism of this process. They have figured out how different signaling pathways in the cell change the structure of proteins, thereby driving the cell division cycle in the right direction at the right time. The researchers present their findings in the renowned journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences".

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