Principle Investigator: Prof. Andreas Marx
Team members: Svenja Hehn, Julia Gutbrot
Expertise: Targeted synthesis and generation of functional molecules and their applications.
NEWmRNA revolves, in part, around engineering of the T7 RNAPol. The group of Prof. Andreas Marx is one of the top groups world-wide in terms of engineering of RNA and DNA polymerases with ample competence in the field of T7 RNAPol engineering and a lab equipped with superb infrastructure from determination of crystal structures to implementation of high-throughput assays using robotic pipetting platforms as well as microfluidic technologies.