CPA - Innovations for Health and Sustainability
Our Research Areas.
The CPA is established as a TUM cross-faculty institute aiming to understand how dynamic protein interactions result in functionalities in biological systems. By researching how specific proteins engage with each other and how protein folding processes, the CPA groups target to identify the formation of structures in cytoskeletal systems and drug pathways, the complexity of biological systems, molecular and supramolecular mechanisms of action. The principles of action and function modes of proteins are studied - in order to understand the underlying mechanisms of the complex functional processes of living systems.
The CPA research program requires a close interlinking of the disciplines involved (physics - chemistry - life sciences - engineering), which goes far beyond the usual cooperation in research networks. Thus, the CPA serves as an incubator for multifunctional teams that think outside traditional disciplinary boundaries and strive to jointly develop solutions for the complex issues of the life sciences. Our ambitious research program requires the spatial strengths in order to analyze sensitive protein systems that exhibit emergent behavior with a broad portfolio of methods.
The CPA focuses on the following main research areas: (A) Structure and Molecular Mechanisms, (B) Synthetic Biomolecular Systems and (C) Biomedical Applications.
