The CHAPEROME project, now awarded an ERC Synergy Grant, aims to uncover how molecular folding helpers – known as chaperones – work together with the translation machinery to keep cells functional and adaptable.
Of the 712 proposals submitted for this ERC Synergy Grant call, only 66 projects were selected for funding. Each successful team will receive an average of 10.3 million euros. “We are delighted that our CHAPEROME project was chosen for this highly competitive program,” says MBExC member Marina Rodnina, director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the project’s coordinator. The consortium brings together Johannes Buchner from the Technical University of Munich and Judith Frydman from Stanford University (USA).
With the new funding, the team will investigate the regulatory role of chaperones in translation – an aspect that, according to Rodnina, “has been underestimated so far.”
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