Professor Shankar Balasubramanian awarded ERC Advanced Grant to investigate "The chemical biology of RNA G-quadruplexes"
Jul 29 2013
Shankar Balasubramanian has been awarded an ERC Advanced grant to study the existence and biological function of four-stranded structures called G-quadruplexes in human cells.
Tuomas Knowles, has been awarded a 1.5 million Euro Starting Grant from the European Research Council to work on studying the physical properties of heterogeneous protein complexes using microfluidic technologies.
Andreas Bender, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth about 1.5 million. EUR to work on the effects that combinations of chemicals may have in the human body.
Professor Shankar Balasubramanian has been awarded the Tetrahedron Prize 2013 for creativity in Organic & BioMedicinal Chemistry, as announced by the Executive Board of Editors and Elsevier, the Publisher of Tetrahedron Publications
Professor Ada E. Yorath (joint Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2009) visited the department to give a talk entitled "What was first: the genetic code or its products?".
