More than 2 million Euro granted to the University of Jena

The Carl Zeiss Foundation will fund a new research group and a junior professorship

| by Christine Vogler

Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung

The Carl Zeiss Foundation will support one junior professorship, four PhD students and three postdocs. In addition, funding is granted for the establishment of the junior reserach group "Synthetic Microbiology" within a Biotechnology Transfer Center. The group is linked to the excellence graduate school Jena School for Microbial Communication and will be closely associated to the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute.

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