Millions of euros of funding for the development of new
medicines and materials
(May 22, 2015) Great
excitement at Kiel University: As the DFG (German Research Foundation)
announced today (Thursday, May 21), it will continue to support the research on
molecules which function like machines with another 8.9 million EUR. This
funding will allow the scientists in Germany's northernmost state to develop
new engineering techniques for building tiny machine-like molecules over the
next four years. The ultimate miniaturisation of engineering functions should
improve the efficiency of energy conversion systems, medicines, diagnostic
methods and materials. Moreover, completely new areas of applications will open
up along this line. The Collaborative Research Centre 677 (SFB 677)
"Function by Switching" now starts into the third and final funding
period. Collaborative Research Centres are supported for a maximum of twelve
years. They are highly competitive and prestigious flagship institutions at
German universities. In total, around 100 scientists from the fields of
chemistry, physics, material sciences and medicine collaborate in this Kiel
based research network.