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New project of Carsten Werner and Ayala Lampel funded by DFG
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has decided to grant the collaborative project „Expanding the matrix space – modulating growth factor signals by cell instructive glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-peptide hydrogels with customizable viscoelastic properties“ (co-PIs Dr. Ayala Lampel, Tel Aviv University and Carsten Werner, IPF).
The project will aim at developing cell-instructive multicomponent 3D matrices formed by interactions between GAGs of gradated sulfation pattern and bifunctional peptide building blocks. The approach is expected to deliver a range of new GAG/peptide materials with tailored chemical composition, structures, and tunable viscoelastic properties as well as new insights into the sequence-structure relationship in hybrid supramolecular biomaterials.
04.04.2021