Cutting-edge research on the RUB campus is uniquely structured in departments covering material-science and lifescience. In life science, in the Protein Research Department (PRD Director; Klaus Gerwert), initiated in 2009, competitively selected Principle Investigators from the biology and biotechnology, chemistry and biochemistry and the medical faculties join forces in an interdisciplinary approach.
The primary research goal of the PRD is to understand the molecular reaction mechanisms of proteins, how they result in interactions, and how these interactions cause specific cellular responses or behaviour. Since defects in these interactions are responsible for many serious diseases, including cancer, the acquired understanding at the atomic level should eventually result in tailored drugs for molecular therapy or the identification of protein biomarkers.
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