Aleksandra Radenovic and Paolo De Los Rios Win SNSF Sinergia Grant

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Aleksandra Radenovic and Paolo De Los Rios, both Associate Professors at the Institute of Bioengineering, have been awarded a major Sinergia grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
One of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s 2020 Sinergia grants has been awarded to Aleksandra Radenovic, Head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology (LBEN) at the Institute of Bioengineering (School of Engineering), and Paolo De Los Rios, Head of the Laboratory of Statistical Biophysics (LBS) at the Institute of Physics (School of Basic Sciences) and the Institute of Bioengineering (School of Engineering). The grant, worth almost 2.7 million Swiss Francs, will fund a research collaboration with Professors Karsten Weis (ETH, Zurich, CH) and Alessandro Barducci (Centre de Biochimie Structurale, Montpellier, France).
The proposal titled "Regulating RNA processing by non-equilibrium phase transitions" aims at "advancing our quantitative understanding of cellular phase separation by elucidating the intimate relationship between active processes, energy-consuming and the properties of biomolecular condensates involved in RNA processing."
SNSF Sinergia grants promote "interdisciplinary collaboration between two to four applicants whose project involves breakthrough research." Awarded each year to researchers across disciplines, Sinergia grants define breakthrough research as that which "calls into question or goes beyond existing models, theories, doctrines, research approaches, methods, etc.".