Univ.Prof. Dr. Ronald MICURA
Department of Organic Chemistry
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 80-82
6020 Innsbruck
Austria/Europe
phone: +43 512 507 57710
fax: +43 512 507 57799
Funding, Projects
03/2020 - 02/2028
Austrian Science Fund FWF; SFB RNA-Deco F8011
'Tools for RNA methylation and labeling – Riboswitch engineering'
07/2019 - 12/2024
Austrian Science Fund FWF; project P31691
'Understanding hatchet ribozymes'
12/2022 - 11/2025
Austrian Science Fund FWF; ESPRIT-Programme ESP 314 'Aptamer ligands capable of photocrosslinking' to Premyslaw Wanat, PhD
06/2018 - 06/2023
05/2017 - 04/2022
08/2018 - 07/2020
Austrian Science Fund FWF; Lise-Meitner-Programme 'Novel synthetic pathways to cyclic oligoribonucleotides' to Olga Krasheninina, PhD
02/2016 - 02/2020
Austrian Science Fund FWF; project P27947
'Chemical synthesis of modified twister ribozymes'
02/2013 - 01/2017
National Science Foundation NSF and Austrian Science Fund FWF; International Collaboration in Chemistry (ICC) I1040
'Single-molecule FRET investigations of riboswitch-mediated translational control'
08/2012 - 07/2014
Austrian Science Fund FWF; Lise-Meitner-Programme 'Folding and dynamics of selected riboswitches' to Marie Soulière, PhD
11/2011 - 10/2015
EU FP7 International Training Network ITN; RNPnet;
'RNA chemical modification as tool to understand RNA function'
03/2010 - 02/2015
Austrian Science Fund FWF; project P21641
'Synthesis of RNA-peptide conjugates – acylated tRNA mimics'
10/2009 - 09/2013
Austrian Science Fund FWF and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG; ERA project I317-N19
'Synthesis of Se-modified RNA by engineered polymerase'
03/2009 - 08/2012
Genauforschungsprogramm GEN-AU, bm:bwk, project cluster: 'Non-coding RNAs: from identification to functional characterization' Subproject: 'Riboswitch Identification and Disclosure of Riboswitch Mechanisms'
06/2005 - 09/2009
Austrian Science Fund; project P17864
'The synthesis of Se-modified RNA for X-ray crystallography'
02/2006 - 01/2009
Genauforschungsprogramm GEN-AU, bm:bwk, project cluster: 'Noncoding RNAs as riboregulators of gene expression and their role in diseases' Subproject: 'Chemical tools for RNP isolation and for gene regulation via riboswitches'
02/2005 - 08/2006
Tiroler Wissenschaftsfonds TWF, project GZ UNI/404-39'Synthesis, Structure and Function of Modified RNA'
07/2001 - 06/2005
Austrian Science Fund; project P15042
'Modified Nucleosides - Impact On RNA Structure And Function'
12/1999 - 11/2001
Austrian Science Fund; project P13216-CHE
'Base Stacking and Frameshifts in DNA and RNA Oligonucleotides'