International Guest Professor and Mercator Fellow at the University Medical Centre Göttingen
Prof. Vsevolod Belousov from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (Russian Academy of Sciences) received a Mercator Fellowship and will be Guest Professor at the Institute of Cardiovascular Physiology (University Medical Center Göttingen) for the next 3 years.
Professor Belousov is an internationally well-recognised pioneer researcher in the field of synthetic biology. He has introduced the first genetically encoded biosensors in the field of redox signaling.
Apart from other projects, he is providing his scientific expertise to the researchers and the PhD students of the International Research Training Group (IRTG) 1816. In the IRTG 1816, researchers work together in cardiovascular research laboratories at the Heart Research Centre, University Göttingen and at the British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Kings College London to detect the development of heart failure at a very early stage and to develop new therapies.
The German Research Foundation recently renewed the funding of the consortium for the next 4.5 years. Within the IRTG 1816 Professor Belousov holds a Mercator Fellowship. These fellowships are thought to enable intensive, long-term project-based collaboration between researchers from both domestic and foreign institutions. Professor Belousov is currently setting up a laboratory and transfers PhD students from Moscow to the University Göttingen, who will be associated to the IRTG 1816.
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