Professor Benesh Joseph at Freie Universitaet Berlin Awarded ‘Rise Up!’ Grant by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation
The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation has awarded 600,000 euros to Benesh Joseph through its prestigious Rise up! program. With this funding, Joseph and his team will investigate how biomolecular machines convert external signals into mechanical work under laboratory and cellular conditions. To this end, they will develop and apply electron spin resonance spectroscopy-based techniques and combine these with theoretical approaches. This research will enable a deeper understanding of how directionality can be controlled in a targeted manner and how protein conformational changes can be reversed. This has the ability to facilitate the development of novel antibiotics and highly efficient enzymes for industrial applications.
Benesh Joseph has been a professor of molecular biophysics at Freie Universität Berlin’s Department of Physics since March 2023. He has received multiple accolades for his research, including the Adolf Messer Prize (2017), the German Biophysical Society’s Young Investigator Award (2018), membership of the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe (2018), and funding through the Emmy Noether Program (2019).