The research areas of the Research Training Group include molecular imaging and cell physiology.
The University of Münster is setting up a new Research Training Group to be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Starting in October, the PhD students will be undertaking research into the synthesis and modification of small organic molecules with which the status of the opening of so-called ion channels can be systematically controlled. Ion channels are proteins which form pores in cell membranes, thus allowing charged particles to pass through the cell membrane. This process plays an important role for example in the transmission of stimuli in nerve cells. The PhD programme, conducted in English and entitled "Chemical Biology of Ion Channels (Chembion)" will run for four and a half years in the initial funding period and will be receiving around four million euros from the German Research Foundation. A total of 13 new Research Training Groups have been approved for the whole of Germany, the DFG has now announced. The new Research Training Group at Münster University will be made up of 13 researchers from the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and the Faculty of Medicine.
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