Projects

Zooming in on molecules communicating with each other
Sergey Samsonov: Despite the tremendous successes of contemporary medicine in the last decades, there are still many diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, which are far from being not only cured or well described in terms of the characteristic symptoms but also from being understood in detail.


Protein aggregation models to find a cure for viral and neurodegenerative diseases
Panagiotis Theodorakis: Proteins are biomolecules consisting of one or more amino acids that carry out a vast array of functions within organisms. However, proteins can also be the cause of various diseases when, for example, they aggregate into particular structures.
Developing self-assembled materials for photonic devices
Eva Otón: Photonic devices are present in everyday life: from TV screens, holograms, phones, PC displays and fibre optical communications to avionics. All these are examples of photonic devices – devices that are able to manipulate light with an external control. The general objective of this project was to develop new families of photonic devices to manipulate guided and...