FP7 Project ASMENA GA meeting in Budapest, Hungary

We were pleased to organize the GA meeting of ASMENA (Functional assays for membrane protein on nanostructured supports) in Budapest, Hungary on May 7 through May 8. The event was a great success in deepening the scientific collaboration between the partners.

In this project, MicroVacuum - the manufacturer of the OWLS sensors - contributes its R&D expertise for developing sensor chips with special surfaces for lipid bilayer formation.

From the project's website:
"ASMENA is part of the EU Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). Over three years, the consortium consisting of 15 partners in 7 countries aims to develop new platforms for drug screening and analytical profiling based on in vitro measurements of functional and conformational changes in membrane proteins. Such tools will allow standard profiling and screening also against membrane protein targets that can currently not be screened in these ways. They will shorten time and cost in drug lead development by increased predictability as well as contribute to fundamental understanding of structure-function relationships of membrane proteins.

The partners of the consortium are world leading experts on surface functionalization, membrane self-assembly, biosensing, membrane protein functional measurements and commercialization of the same. Now, their complementary competences can be put together on the European level to create a timely breakthrough in the area."

More details on the FP7 ASMENA project