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Project

Bio-NMR

Title NMR for Structural Biology
Grant Agreement Number 261863
Funding Programmes FP7
Dates 01/09/2010 - 31/08/2014
Project URL http://www.bio-nmr.net
Scientific Domain Biological and Medical Sciences
Activity Integrating activities
Action Line Integrated Activity
Transnational Access Yes
Type Of Project CP-CSA-INFRA
Abstract In the past two decades spectacular insight into basic principles of life has been obtained from paradigmatic high-resolution structural investigations providing a rational basis for biological experiments. NMR is an indispensable enabling technology for determining such structures and their interactions in solution, the immobilized state and living cells. The power of NMR to link structural, dynamic, kinetic and thermodynamic information makes it an essential component of cutting edge research in medicine and biology. Bio-NMR pools pan-European resources of the most relevant bio-NMR infrastructures. Eleven partners will provide access to researchers involved in structural biology following the EU-NMR I3 project. This initiative successfully responded to the increasing demand for access since 1994. Seven other excellent partners, including the leading NMR manufacturer Bruker, are included in the new consortium. Jointly, they will develop methods aimed at pushing the frontiers of biological NMR and improving the quality of access to allow users to tackle ever more challenging goals in cellular structural biology. Finally, all nineteen partners, amongst them a company specialized in NMR technology dissemination, are involved in the networking activities. These include (1) knowledge transfer among consortium members, Bio-NMR users and other NMR researchers, (2) the demonstration to biologists of the potential of structural biology with NMR, and lowering the barriers to their becoming users, (3) interactions with industrial and medical communities, and (4) raising awareness of the impact of the results achieved through Bio-NMR among society, financing and governing bodies with the final aim of developing a business plan for self-sustainability. The overall project and its management have been conceived in coordination with INSTRUCT, which will contribute to the cultural frame and networking activities of Bio-NMR.
Partners
(Organisation name and Country)
AARHUS UNIVERSITET, Denmark
UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI, Poland
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA, Spain
UAB "Spronk NMR Consultancy", Lithuania
GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET, Sweden
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, Israel
MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA SZEGEDI BIOLOGIAI KOZPONT ENZIMOLOGIAI INTEZET, Hungary
KEMIJSKI INSTITUT, Slovenia
Masarykova univerzita, Czech Republic
FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN E.V., Germany
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH, Switzerland
BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBH, Germany
RESEARCH CENTRE FOR NATURAL SCIENCES, HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Hungary
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, United Kingdom
TA Call NMR for Structural Biology