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With the project “SMARTdrugs” (Supramolecular Agents as Radiotheranostic Drugs), funded by the European Innovation Council, an international team comprising researchers at TUM and collaboration partners in Zurich, London, San Sebastian and Utrecht, wants to create a new class of therapies:… [read more]

Prof. Nora Brambilla, Prof. Thorsten Bach, and Prof. Frank Pollmann have each been awarded an ERC Grant. Congratulations! [read more]

A Research Prize of 1500 €, donated by Evonik Industries, will be awarded for outstanding research contributions by a Ph.D. student in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related fields at the Absolvententag Chemie to be held at the July 26th, 2024. Postdoctoral fellows, habilitands,… [read more]

The members of TUM School of Natural Sciences warmly congratulate Prof. Jennifer Rupp (Chairholder of Solid-State Electrolyte Chemistry) on her election as a member of the Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences. [read more]

Why is it worth automatically producing a hundred batteries a day in the lab? How do you manage data efficiently? How do you teach computers chemistry? It’s questions like these that fascinate Helge Stein, a new researcher at the e-conversion Cluster of Excellence. Since mid-2023, the Hamburg native… [read more]

Research that drives artificial photosynthesis is an essential building block for the energy transition. Dr. Philip Stanley, who completed his PhD thesis under Prof. Roland Fischer at the Technical University of Munich, contributed important findings on this topic. On 8 February, the chemist… [read more]

With Jennifer Strunk, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and e-conversion have attracted a researcher with big goals and a zest for action: At the beginning of May 2023, the 43-year-old took over the W3 professorship for "Industrial Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis" and has since enriched the… [read more]

New method makes space for DNA insertions: Currently, the most versatile method of gene editing is prime editing, a technology based on the CRISPR/Cas9 gene scissors. However, one of the bottlenecks of this method has been the efficient insertion of new, long DNA sequences, as this requires the… [read more]

The „Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)“ awards Prof. Dr. Thomas Fässler from the Technical University of Munich the Arfvedson-Schlenk Prize, endowed with 7500 euros. The prize is sponsored by Albermarle Germany GmbH. Prof. Fässler receives this award for his outstanding contributions to… [read more]

The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Research Neutron Source (FRM II) is getting a new scientific director. Physicist Prof. Christian Pfleiderer from the School of Natural Sciences at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) will take over from Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum on January 1, 2024. Pfleiderer has… [read more]