SoN PIs and students participated in the kick-off meeting of CoMBiS, a program for collaborative research and exchange on the interface of carbon-based materials and biology. The program was initiated by Prof. Kenichiro Itami at RIKEN in Tokyo and includes SoN and other international partners. CoMBiS is funded by the ASPIRE program of the Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST) and will enable research visits of early career researchers in the next five years.
The Hector Fellow Academy has awarded Junior Professor Robert Hein (Institute of Organic Chemistry) from the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Münster with the Research Career Development Award. The award includes a five-year membership in the Academy. It recognizes outstanding scientific achievements and supports early-career researchers in the long-term development of their research.
For 66 years now, only women have been taking contraceptives – the "pill." There is no equivalent for men. Now, the research consortium Contraception.MS aims to investigate new approaches to non-hormonal contraceptive methods for both sexes. The Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) is providing three million euros for this purpose. With the funding commitment, the team of experts from Münster and Hamburg explains the focus of their work.
