ERC Grant for Dorothee Dormann and Christian Muench

International Max Planck Research School on Cellular Biophysics

ERC Consolidator Grant for Dorothee Dormann & Christian Münch

Dorothee Dormann (left) from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Christian Münch (right) from the Goethe University Frankfurt have received the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants for their research proposals.

Dorothee Dormann will investigate protein aggregates that are linked to neurodegenerative diseases. Christian Münch will study a mechanism he discovered, which the cell uses to operate its recycling system. more

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Dorothee Dormann awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant

Biochemist Christian Münch from Goethe University Frankfurt receives ERC Consolidator Grant

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