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German Research Foundation to Fund Collaborative Genomics Project

Nov 26, 2004

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (GenomeWeb News) - the German Research Foundation said this week that it plans to support a collaborative project to study gene regulatory networks as part of a €370 million ($490 million) national initiative to establish seven new collaborative research centers in 2005.

 

The center, "Networks in Genome Expression and Maintenance," will be based at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and will study the function, structure, regulation, and interactions of protein complexes in normal and malignant cells.

 

Further details on the center were not provided.

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