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EMBL Hamburg Gets 3.5M Euro For TB Structural Proteomics

Jun 24, 2003

NEW YORK, June 24 - The European Molecular Biology Laboratory's Hamburg outstation and its partners have received a 3.5 million Euro ($4 million) grant from the German government to do structural proteomics on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the EMBL said late Monday.

 

The grant, awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Education, is part of the government's proteomics initiative, "New efficient procedures for functional proteome analysis."

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