DTU professor receives prestigious EU grant

Professor Alexander Kai Büll is one of this year’s recipients of the European Research Council's Consolidator Grant 2023.

Friday 03 February 2023

Freja E. Klippmann

Alexander Kai Büll, DTU Bioengineering, receives an ERC Consolidator Grant of DKK 15 million for the research project ”Exploring the molecular grammar of IDP assembly and condensation at ultra-high throughput” (EMMA).

With the EMMA project, he proposes to develop an entirely new approach to understanding fundamental processes regarding proteins, including how the amino acid sequence defines the assembly and condensation of so-called intrinsically disordered proteins (i.e., proteins that are not folded into a well-defined three-dimensional structure). These are processes that play essential roles in biological function and disease. The methods developed in the EMMA project will ultimately allow improvements on current methods by more than eight orders of magnitude.

Read more about Alexander K. Büll’s research here.

The European Research Council (ERC)

The European Research Council (ERC) supports world-class research. The grants are awarded to excellent researchers at different career stages and will be used to build a team around an original and ground-breaking research idea. ERC has existed since 2007 and 10 DTU researchers have in the period 2021-2022 received a total of DKK 161 million in ERC grants.

ERC Consolidator Grants

is for researchers in the middle of their career, i.e. researchers whose PhD degree is between 7 and 12 years old. The individual researcher gets a maximum of 2 million Euro over five years as a starting point.

Contact

Alexander Kai Büll Professor Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine Phone: +45 45254061 alebu@dtu.dk