Dr. Marcin Nowotny, Head of the Laboratory of Protein Structure tells how he got his ERC grant. Dr. Nowotny is the laureate of the ERC Starting Grant “Structural studies of nucleotide excision repair complexes” (project acronym: NERCOMP). The overall objective of NERCOMP is to expand knowledge about DNA repair mechanisms. Specifically, Dr. Nowotny focuses on the structural and biochemical characterization of protein complexes involved in NER pathways in bacteria and eukaryotes. This is a key process for a basic understanding of genome stability and because a disturbance in these mechanisms in humans can entail tumorigenesis.

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