GUIDE: Graduate School for Drug Exploration. The main asset is the integration of clinical, biomedical and pharmaceutical research, which promotes the education of researchers with a keen eye on the complete spectrum of biomedical research in a unique research and teaching environment: from bed to bench to drugs.
BMSA: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Application aims to establish a center of expertise for the entire stage of biomedical materials science and its application involving basic materials science, medical product development and clinical evaluation that will contribute to the long-lasting well-being of patients in need of biomaterials implants and extra-corporal support systems.
BCN: Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. Its research mission is to bring together resesearch at different levels, specifications of brain activity at the molecular or cellular level, analyses of physical and mental operations, up to the complex level of information processing.
GRIP: Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy includes the following themes:
- Molecular aspects of drug design and drug action;
- Unraveling of drug signal transduction routes, in relation to pathophysiology;
- Development of relevant in vitro disease models;
- In vitro technologies for the evaluation of human drug metabolism and toxicity;
- Drug discovery on the basis of medicinal chemistry (synthesis of drugs) and natural products;
- Biotechnological production of drugs, including protein engineering and gene engineering;
- Protein analysis and medical proteomics;
- Pharmaceutical, biomacromolecular and toxicological analysis;
- Bioanalytical and biosensoring techniques, including biomonitoring and microdialysis;
- Advanced technologies for programmed drug delivery and drug absorption;
- Cell selective (pro)drug and gene targeting research;
- Pharmaceutical manipulation of gene expression;
- Pharmaceutical technology for the development of innovative drug dosage forms and their production process;
- Pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics and drug use studies;
- Social pharmacy and patient information;
- Pharmacotherapy and pharmaceutical patient care.
GBB: Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology has achieved a strong reputation in protein structure determination and analysis, biochemistry, molecular biology and microbiology. It forms the basis for various specialised applied-oriented research programmes, e.g. on the structure and function of (membrane) proteins, the discovery and engineering of new enzymes and metabolic pathways relevant for medical and biotechnological applications, and the analysis of complex cellular processes such as signal transduction, apoptosis and organelle biogenesis.
The Stratingh Institute: carries out both fundamental and applied industrially oriented research. Present research projects include application-oriented research on organic and inorganic synthesis, catalysis: heterogeneous, homogeneous and biocatalysis and polymer processing. The multidisciplinary teams within the Stratingh Institute may facilitate R&D routes from laboratory to industrial scale.
The Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials: focuses towards unravelling the relations between the properties that determine their functionality and their chemical composition and structure. The quest for in-depth understanding of these constitutive relations often leads to unexpected boundaries signifying fundamental gaps in our knowledge. Although the structure-property relationship is in itself a truism, the actual linkage between (micro) structural aspects in a material and its physical/chemical properties is elusive. The reason is that various properties are determined by the collective behaviour of molecules, atoms and electrons and their behaviour may be extremely non-linear on different time and length scales.
The classic materials triangle concerns an integrative approach in the three aspects of structure, property and chemical composition. The Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials adds an extra dimension to this traditional view by an unconventional linkage to the field of biomolecular sciences, which includes the design aspects as well.
Associated research institutes
- ASTRON/LOFAR: (sensortechnology)
- BIOMADE: Bio Organic Materials & Devices
- Carbo Hydrate Competence Centre
- Competence Network for Foodresearch and Productdevelopment
- KVI: Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (Nuclear Fysics Institute)
- TNO Quality of Life: Health & Nutrition Groningen
- Van Hall Agriculture & Food Technology: Leeuwarden
