Skip to ContentSkip to Navigation
Research GBB Research Associated Research Programs

National Research Affiliations

GBB’s in-depth fundamental and curiosity-driven biomolecular sciences is renowned and results in the participation of our principal investigators in relevant national research programs as well as various public-private partnerships. Through these affiliations GBB strives to act as a strong player in its key areas to further strengthen our performance at the very forefront of science, while having meaningful impact to feed the innovation pipeline to address societal challenges in sustainability, chemistry and health.

The most important national research activities of GBB:

Carbohydrate Competence Centre

IBOS/ACTS

Gravitation program Building a Synthetic Cell (BaSyc) with participating research leaders Bert Poolman and Dirk Slotboom (Membrane Enzymology), Siewert-Jan Marrink (Molecular Dynamics), Matthias Heinemann (Molecular Systems Biology), and Arnold Driessen (Molecular Microbiology).

TTW program on Novel Antibacterial Compounds and Therapies Antagonising Resistance (NACTAR) with participating research leader Oscar Kuipers (Molecular genetics).

Netherlands Centre for One Health

NWA ORC program Limits to Growth coordinated by research leader Matthias Heinemann (Molecular Systems Biology):

The interdisciplinary consortium of chemists, biologists and physicists investigates what limits the growth of cells. This knowledge is important for tackling numerous societal challenges. Dutch citizens are involved through novel strategies for communicating fundamental science, co‐developed by artists, media designers and scientists.

NWO-XL program on Unraveling Proteins one by one with Nanopores, which is coordinated by research leader Giovanni Maglia (Chemical Biology I) with researchers from Technical University Delft and Wageningen University:

Proteins are the workhorses in cells. Yet, we still miss lots of information on these fundamental molecules of life. The consortium aims to develop new nanopore technologies to tackle the main challenges in protein analysis: to count and identify proteins, to read off their basic code at the single-molecule level, and to resolve the temporal shape changes of individual proteins that underlies their function. Unravelling proteins one-by-one by resolving their sequence and functional dynamics provides extraordinary potential to radically advance our understanding of proteins.

National Program Fascinating with participation of research leader Sahar El Aidy (Host-Microbe Interactions)

This national program aims to create the most optimal nutritional value with a nature-inclusive, sustainable, and circular agricultural system in the northern Netherlands. The Dutch website: https://fascinating-groningen.nl

Last modified:14 August 2023 10.43 a.m.