Our Principal Investigator, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich of the Heidelberg University, has been funded by the prestigious Allen Distinguished Investigator Program of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. Her project, in collaboration with researchers in Austria and the United Kingdom, will investigate how chemical exchange processes influence cell shape and the role of active membranes in cellular communication. The Foundation is providing $1.5 million for this groundbreaking research, which combines simulations, synthetic membrane systems, and in vivo experiments to unravel this newly hypothesized mechanism.
