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NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering
Third-party funded project |
Project title |
NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering |
Principal Investigator(s) |
Ward, Thomas R.
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Co-Investigator(s) |
Müller, Daniel J.
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Project Members |
Lim, Roderick Mayor, Marcel Housecroft, Catherine Wenger, Oliver Ward, Thomas R. Palivan, Cornelia Calame, Michel Stellacci, Francesco Schertler, Gebhard Reddy, Sai Matile, Stefan Stelling, Jörg Panke, Sven Vogel, Viola Vörös, Janos Benenson, Yaakov Fussenegger, Martin Meier, Wolfgang P. Roska, Botond Gademann, Karl Fotiadis, Dimitrios Biller-Andorno, Nikola Müller, Daniel J. Nash, Michael Sparr, Christof Tiefenbacher, Konrad Dittrich, Petra Platt, Randall Martin, Ivan Scholl, Hendrik Lörtscher, Emanuel Kammerer, Richard Wolf, Heiko
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Organisation / Research unit |
Departement Chemie, Departement Chemie / Bioanorganische Chemie (Ward) |
Project Website |
http://www.nccr-mse.ch/en/home/ |
Project start |
01.07.2014 |
Probable end |
30.06.2018 |
Status |
Completed |
Abstract |
The NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering combines competences from life sciences, chemistry, physics, biology, bioinformatics and engineering sciences. More than 100 researchers and support personnel distributed into four work packages and 31 projects work together to address systems engineering challenges by integrating novel chemical and biological modules into molecular factories and cellular systems for the production of high added-value chemicals and applications in medical diagnostics and treatment.
Molecular systems engineering relies on the combination of both chemical- and biological modules. In this approach, complex dynamic phenomena emerge as the result of the integration of molecular modules designed to interact in a programmed way with their complex environment. In this manner, it should be possible to create molecular factories and cellular systems whose properties are more than the sum of the attributes of the individual modules.
The commitments of the leading houses, the University of Basel and ETH Zurich, also include new (joint) professorships, and extensive training of a new generation of scientists and technologists, leading to a long-term paradigm shift in molecular sciences and a new structure of the Swiss research landscape. |
Keywords |
chemistry, biology, systems chemistry, systems biology, synthetic biology, molecular factories, cellular systems, molecular systems engineering |
Financed by |
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) University of Basel Other sources
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