What's UniSysCat all about?

An international team including several UniSysCat researchers is using the powerful method of serial-femtosecond crystallography to visualize precisely how a bacterial light receptor reacts to illumination.

On May 22, the German Research Foundation announced the funding decisions for the Clusters of Excellence. UniSysCat will not be funded beyond 2025. Yet, Berlin's catalysis research remains.

Six leading institutions launched an initiative for sustainable chemistry to create an innovation ecosystem that combines chemical industry transformation with the challenges of structural change in eastern Germany.

UniSysCat researcher Christian Lorent utilizes spectroscopy to provide the missing proof in the activation mechanism: The evolutionary link between two fundamental biological processes.

An article in Tagesspiegel published on April 26 highlights how a team around UniSysCat speaker Juri Rappsilber is developing medical compounds that only become active in the tumor without attacking healthy cells.

UniSysCat congratulates Bonnie Murphy on receiving the Clara Immerwahr Award 2025. We had the pleasure of celebrating this occasion together at TU Berlin on April 11. The preceding Symposium was also a truly inspiring day.

The “innovate! lab gGmbH”, which is funded by the Joachim Herz Foundation with 5 million euros, gives a new boost to the transfer of cutting-edge research into practice.

Thanks to the DAAD Hilde-Domin program, Najiba Azemi from Afghanistan can do her doctorate in the UniSysCat working group of Juri Rappsilber where she works on anti-cancer medication.

The two scientists Rhea Machado and Javier Silva have had a stellar career at UniSysCat and have now been interviewed by CHEManager magazine about their startup Porelio.

UniSysCat speaker Juri Rappsilber calls for the renewal of university teaching in a recent blog post. His credo: “University means shaping”. Excellence clusters could lead the way.