Funding granted to our group leader Eivind Valen

Today it was announced that CBU Group leader Eivind Valen (associate professor at Informatics) was granted funding for the project “Decoding the mRNA capping code”. The project aims to understand why mRNAs receive different 5’ caps. The competition for funding in this FRIPRO (blue sky) call was fierce with a rate of funding well below 10%.