MemBioMed Consortium

The MemBioMed project is driven by the ambition of three universities, renowned worldwide for offering high-quality local master’s degrees in biology, to create a joint master’s degree in biomembranes, providing added value of international mobility, academic excellence, complementarity and innovation.

The MemBioMed consortium partners are:
> Université Côte d’Azur (UniCA, France), coordinator and beneficiary
> University of Genoa (UniGe, Italy), full partner
> Osnabrück University (UOS, Germany), full partner

The three full partners have outstanding academic reputations, underpinned by research and publications, student success, available resources and close links with industry.

The University Côte d’Azur (UniCA) is one of the only places in France where renowned specialists in membrane protein and lipid research work side by side in national research center (from CNRS and INSERM). As these specialists participate in multiple national and international collaboration networks (IDEX Jedi, LABEX ICST/SIGNALIFE, and ERC SPHERES), their competence and expertise, cover virtually all facets of molecular and cellular membrane biology.

The University of Genoa (UniGe) harbors the Center for Synaptic Neuroscience and Technology (NYSNC), a site of excellence for neurology and clinical neuroscience. The Center is widely known for its multidisciplinary research and education programme on brain function and diseases. Its scientists are at the forefront of developing novel technologies to modulate biomembrane-related neurological functions.

Osnabrück University (UOS) and its Center for Cellular Nanoanalytics (CellNanOs) offer interdisciplinary and research-oriented training at the interface of biology, chemistry and physics with a major focus on the development of novel biophysical techniques to resolve and quantify dynamic processes at cellular membranes, from mesoscopic down to atomic scales. Its scientists participate in collaborative research and training networks to unravel the functional plasticity encoded in cellular membranes (SFB1557, RTG2900).