FMS Research Center

Research topics

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Chemical Biology

'Organic Chemistry with Biological Relevance'

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Materials for advanced applications

'Creating function out of hierarchical organization'

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Adaptive — out-of-equilibrium — systems

'Discovering the complexity of living systems'

NWO grant for René Janssen

NWO has granted the proposal Flowganic in the 2023 Take-off autumn round. A recent discovery of extremely stable and easy to synthesize organic redox-active molecules provides new perspectives to the development of organic redox flow batteries for energy storage. In this project, prof. Janssen and his group aims to develop this discovery into a sustainable […]

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Sijbren Otto awarded an ERC Synergy Grant

Prof. Sijbren Otto and colleagues from ESPCI Paris (Prof. Andrew Griffiths), Parmenides Foundation (Prof. Eörs Szathmáry) and Ben-Gurion University (Prof. Gonen Ashkenasy) were awarded a 13M euros ERC Synergy Grant for their “MiniLife” project. Their aim is to create, for the first time, a living system from completely abiotic components (so not based on DNA […]

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NWO Vidi Grant for Wim Velema

We congratulate Wim Velema with this NWO Vidi Grant which will give him the opportunity to study the RNA-metabolite interactions RNA is a versatile biomolecule involved in almost every process in the cell and a key player in many diseases. In Velema’s project, researchers will study how RNA interacts with small molecules in the cell, […]

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Francesca Grisoni has been awarded an industrial Marie-Curie PhD program (consortium of 14 fellows)

3 million euros awarded for MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 for research proposal ‘Explainable AI for Molecules – AiChemist’ Francesca Grisoni has been awarded an industrial Marie-Curie PhD program with her participation in a consortium of 14 fellows. The award allows her to fund a PhD student with whom she will collaborate, together with healthcare company […]

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