CERM

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CERM (European Center for Magnetic Resonance)
Founder(s) Ivano Bertini
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Website https://www.cerm.unifi.it/

CERM (European Center for Magnetic Resonance, Italian : Centro Europeo di Risonanze Magnetiche) is a research facility at the University of Florence specialized in the application of NMR studies to biomolecules. It is a leading research center in Tuscany. [1]

The center was founded by Ivano Bertini [2] and it is located at the Polo Scientifico (Scientific Campus) in Sesto Fiorentino. It is supported by the European Community as a research infrastructure for NMR in the Life Sciences

Scientific research

Under Bertini's leadership, CERM became one of the leading research centers in the world and it has a focus on structural biology, biophysics, and drug discovery. In 1994 at CERM the first structure of a metalloprotein was discovered through NMR [3] using structural constraints due to the paramagnetic center.

In February 2020 CERM completed the installation of the most powerful NMR spectrometer in the world. [4]

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