https://www.cpr.ku.dk/research/protein-structure-function-program/montoya/montoya-group-news/ News from Montoya group at CPR en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:27:45 +0200 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:27:45 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2024/new-gene-editing-tool-could-revolutionize-genetic-disease-treatment/ Scientists at Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research in Copenhagen publish major study in...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2024/new-gene-editing-tool-could-revolutionize-genetic-disease-treatment/" alt="New Gene-Editing Tool Could Revolutionize Genetic Disease Treatment" title="New Gene-Editing Tool Could Revolutionize Genetic Disease Treatment"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/images/group-photos/group-photos-2022/20220913_Q1A8075_Montoya_1100x600.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2024/new-gene-editing-tool-could-revolutionize-genetic-disease-treatment/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:30:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/snapshots-of-the-smallest-programmable-nuclease-tnpb-published-in-nature/ A team led by Professor Virginijus Šikšnys from Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/snapshots-of-the-smallest-programmable-nuclease-tnpb-published-in-nature/" alt="Snapshots of the smallest programmable nuclease TnpB published in Nature" title="Snapshots of the smallest programmable nuclease TnpB published in Nature"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/snapshots-of-the-smallest-programmable-nuclease-tnpb-published-in-nature/CPR044_cryo_1100x733.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/snapshots-of-the-smallest-programmable-nuclease-tnpb-published-in-nature/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:00:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/sund-receives-three-advanced-grants-for-innovative-projects_kopi/ Three researchers at SUND have been awarded with the highly prestigious European Research Council's Advanced...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/sund-receives-three-advanced-grants-for-innovative-projects_kopi/" alt="Guillermo Montoya receives prestigious ERC Advanced Grant" title="Guillermo Montoya receives prestigious ERC Advanced Grant"><img src="https://healthsciences.ku.dk/newsfaculty-news/2023/03/erc_adg.png/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/sund-receives-three-advanced-grants-for-innovative-projects_kopi/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/three-proteins-join-forces-to-spread-cancer.-now-scientists-have-found-a-way-to-destroy-them/ With cryo-electron microscopy, it is possible to examine proteins more than a 1,000 times smaller than...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/three-proteins-join-forces-to-spread-cancer.-now-scientists-have-found-a-way-to-destroy-them/" alt="Three proteins join forces to spread cancer. Now scientists may destroy them" title="Three proteins join forces to spread cancer. Now scientists may destroy them"><img src="https://healthsciences.ku.dk/newsfaculty-news/2022/09/Guillermo.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/three-proteins-join-forces-to-spread-cancer.-now-scientists-have-found-a-way-to-destroy-them/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:45:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/novel-insight-into-cell-killing-by-anticancer-agents/ PP2A is a known tumor suppressor and given that its function is suppressed in many cancers, there is...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/novel-insight-into-cell-killing-by-anticancer-agents/" alt="Novel insight into cell killing by anticancer agents" title="Novel insight into cell killing by anticancer agents"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/Nilsson_story_June_2022_1100x600.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/novel-insight-into-cell-killing-by-anticancer-agents/ Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:15:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/nine-young-sund-researchers-receives-millions-to-ignite-career_cpr/ Lundbeck Foundation Postdocs research grants are aimed at young, highly qualified scientists working...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/nine-young-sund-researchers-receives-millions-to-ignite-career_cpr/" alt="Nine young SUND-researchers receive millions to ignite career" title="Nine young SUND-researchers receive millions to ignite career"><img src="https://healthsciences.ku.dk/newsfaculty-news/2022/05/lfpun.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2022/nine-young-sund-researchers-receives-millions-to-ignite-career_cpr/ Fri, 06 May 2022 15:00:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2021/bacterial-arch-enemy-paves-the-way-for-new-gene-editing_kopi/ Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have mapped the structure of CRISPR-Cas12j to know exactly...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2021/bacterial-arch-enemy-paves-the-way-for-new-gene-editing_kopi/" alt="‘Bacterial arch-enemy’ paves the way for new gene editing" title="‘Bacterial arch-enemy’ paves the way for new gene editing"><img src="https://cms.ku.dk/arkiv/sund/fak/fak-sites/arkiv-sund.ku.dk/sund.ku.dk/news2021/08/COLOURBOX6471478.png/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2021/bacterial-arch-enemy-paves-the-way-for-new-gene-editing_kopi/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2020/new-danish-ai-tool-provides-much-needed-help-to-protein-scientists-across-the-world/ Sorting huge amounts of data is a bottleneck in protein research, a field that is crucial to make use...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2020/new-danish-ai-tool-provides-much-needed-help-to-protein-scientists-across-the-world/" alt="New Danish AI tool provides much-needed help to protein scientists across the world" title="New Danish AI tool provides much-needed help to protein scientists across the world"><img src="https://cms.ku.dk/arkiv/science/fak/science-kom/news-archive/2020/new-danish-ai-tool-provides-much-needed-help-to-protein-scientists-across-the-world/billedinformationer/Proteinpr_ve_FRET_1100x600.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2020/new-danish-ai-tool-provides-much-needed-help-to-protein-scientists-across-the-world/ Tue, 03 Nov 2020 08:15:00 +0100 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2020/cpr-crispr-spin-out-accepted-in-bioinnovation-institute-program/ BioInnovation Institute (BII) has accepted CPR spin-out company Twelve Bio in the Creation House program,...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2020/cpr-crispr-spin-out-accepted-in-bioinnovation-institute-program/" alt="CPR CRISPR spin-out accepted in BioInnovation Institute program" title="CPR CRISPR spin-out accepted in BioInnovation Institute program"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2020/cpr-crispr-spin-out-accepted-in-bioinnovation-institute-program/TwelveBio_team_2020_1100x600.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2020/cpr-crispr-spin-out-accepted-in-bioinnovation-institute-program/ Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:45:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2020/researchers-map-mechanisms-in-the-largest-crispr-system/ The largest and most complex CRISPR system has been visualized by researchers from the University of...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2020/researchers-map-mechanisms-in-the-largest-crispr-system/" alt="Researchers map mechanisms in the largest CRISPR system" title="Researchers map mechanisms in the largest CRISPR system"><img src="https://healthsciences.ku.dk/newsfaculty-news/2020/07/DNA600.jpeg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2020/researchers-map-mechanisms-in-the-largest-crispr-system/ Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:15:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/new-startup-company-to-refine-gene-editing-tool-for-diagnostics-and-treatment_kopi/ A spin-out company from the University of Copenhagen called TwelveBIO has set out to improve CRISPR technology...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/new-startup-company-to-refine-gene-editing-tool-for-diagnostics-and-treatment_kopi/" alt="New startup company to refine gene editing tool for diagnostics and treatment " title="New startup company to refine gene editing tool for diagnostics and treatment "><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/new-startup-company-to-refine-gene-editing-tool-for-diagnostics-and-treatment_kopi/12bio_1100x600.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/new-startup-company-to-refine-gene-editing-tool-for-diagnostics-and-treatment_kopi/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:30:00 +0100 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/large-scale-mapping-of-protein-networks-behind-tumor-growth-in-the-lungs/ Lung cancer is the biggest cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. There were 2 million new cases...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/large-scale-mapping-of-protein-networks-behind-tumor-growth-in-the-lungs/" alt="Large-scale mapping of protein networks behind tumor growth in the lungs" title="Large-scale mapping of protein networks behind tumor growth in the lungs"><img src="https://cms.ku.dk/arkiv/sund/fak/fak-sites/arkiv-sund.ku.dk/sund.ku.dk/news-2019/10/Lungs55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/large-scale-mapping-of-protein-networks-behind-tumor-growth-in-the-lungs/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:15:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/new-insights-into-substrate-selection-for-an-essential-protein-phosphatase/ A multi-disciplinary research team headed by Professor Jakob Nilsson from Novo Nordisk Foundation Center...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/new-insights-into-substrate-selection-for-an-essential-protein-phosphatase/" alt="New insights into substrate selection for an essential protein phosphatase" title="New insights into substrate selection for an essential protein phosphatase"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/images/research/images-1100x600/action-images/research2_1100x600.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/new-insights-into-substrate-selection-for-an-essential-protein-phosphatase/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:30:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/new-discoveries-map-out-crispr-cas-defence-systems-in-bacteria/ For the first time ever, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have mapped how bacterial cells...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/new-discoveries-map-out-crispr-cas-defence-systems-in-bacteria/" alt="New discoveries map out CRISPR-Cas defence systems in bacteria" title="New discoveries map out CRISPR-Cas defence systems in bacteria"><img src="https://cms.ku.dk/arkiv/sund/fak/fak-sites/arkiv-sund.ku.dk/sund.ku.dk/news-2019/09/CSX1_55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/new-discoveries-map-out-crispr-cas-defence-systems-in-bacteria/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/montoya-receives-grant-to-sharpen-crispr-scissors/ Professor Guillermo Montoya from Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research has been awarded...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/montoya-receives-grant-to-sharpen-crispr-scissors/" alt="Montoya receives grant to sharpen CRISPR-scissors" title="Montoya receives grant to sharpen CRISPR-scissors"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/montoya-receives-grant-to-sharpen-crispr-scissors/Guillermo_55x55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/montoya-receives-grant-to-sharpen-crispr-scissors/ Wed, 08 May 2019 10:00:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/eight-grants-for-research-in-bioscience-metabolism-and-clinical-practice/ Eight researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, have received...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/eight-grants-for-research-in-bioscience-metabolism-and-clinical-practice/" alt="Eight Grants for Research in Bioscience, Metabolism, and Clinical Practice" title="Eight Grants for Research in Bioscience, Metabolism, and Clinical Practice"><img src="https://cms.ku.dk/arkiv/sund/fak/fak-sites/arkiv-sund.ku.dk/sund.ku.dk/news-2019/05/collage_bevillinger_55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/eight-grants-for-research-in-bioscience-metabolism-and-clinical-practice/ Wed, 08 May 2019 09:00:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/crispr-montoya/ When researchers and doctors use the tool CRISPR to correct genetic errors, it may have side effects... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/crispr-montoya/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:45:00 +0100 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/cryo-em-in-videnskab.dk/ Read about our Cryo-Electron Microscope in Videnskap.dk<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/cryo-em-in-videnskab.dk/" alt="Cryo-Electron Microscope in Videnskab.dk" title="Cryo-Electron Microscope in Videnskab.dk"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/images/logos-2018/Videnskap_55x55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/cryo-em-in-videnskab.dk/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/enzyme-may-get-key-role-in-drug-design-for-breast-cancer-and-brain-condition/ In recent years, researchers have focussed on the enzyme TLK2 suspecting it of playing a main role in... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/enzyme-may-get-key-role-in-drug-design-for-breast-cancer-and-brain-condition/ Fri, 29 Jun 2018 09:15:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/talented-cpr-researcher-wins-this-years-danscatt-award/ Today PhD Pablo Alcón from the Protein Structure and Function programme receives the Danscatt Award...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/talented-cpr-researcher-wins-this-years-danscatt-award/" alt="Talented CPR Researcher Wins This Year’s Danscatt Award" title="Talented CPR Researcher Wins This Year’s Danscatt Award"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/talented-cpr-researcher-wins-this-years-danscatt-award/Pablo_Alcon_55x55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/talented-cpr-researcher-wins-this-years-danscatt-award/ Thu, 31 May 2018 09:00:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/professor-guillermo-montoya-elected-member-of-embo/ Today EMBO (the European Molecular Biology Organization) releases the list of new members who have been... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2018/professor-guillermo-montoya-elected-member-of-embo/ Mon, 14 May 2018 10:30:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2017/ground-breaking-microscope-ready-for-use_kopi/ SUND’s new cryo-electron microscope was inaugurated on Monday by Dean Ulla Wewer, CEO of the Novo... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2017/ground-breaking-microscope-ready-for-use_kopi/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0100 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2017/breaking-down-the-crispr-cas-mechanism/ Researchers Guillermo Montoya, Pablo Alcón and Stefano Stella from Novo Nordisk Foundation Center...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2017/breaking-down-the-crispr-cas-mechanism/" alt="Breaking down the CRISPR-Cas mechanism" title="Breaking down the CRISPR-Cas mechanism"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/logos/nature-struc-biol-logo-for-web.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2017/breaking-down-the-crispr-cas-mechanism/ Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:15:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2017/researchers-from-the-montoya-group-decipher-how-a-new-molecular-tool-edits-your-genome/ A new protein of the CRISPR-Cas family upgrades the possibilities for genome modification a la carte,... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2017/researchers-from-the-montoya-group-decipher-how-a-new-molecular-tool-edits-your-genome/ Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:45:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2017/new-structural-biology-cluster-at-the-university-of-copenhagen/ The University of Copenhagen is establishing a new cluster, ISBUC, which compiles researchers from the... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2017/new-structural-biology-cluster-at-the-university-of-copenhagen/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:30:00 +0100 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2017/new-cutting-edge-microscope-at-the-faculty-of-health-and-medical-science/ Novo Nordisk Foundation donates a DKK 60 mio (7.8mio €) grant to the University of Copenhagen (Faculty... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2017/new-cutting-edge-microscope-at-the-faculty-of-health-and-medical-science/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:30:00 +0100 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2017/a-pioneer-in-uncovering-the-human-bodys-smallest-building-blocks/ Guillermo Montoya has dedicated his life to finding out how the smallest building blocks of our body... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2017/a-pioneer-in-uncovering-the-human-bodys-smallest-building-blocks/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:15:00 +0100 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2016_1/novel-insight-into-protein-phosphatase-substrate-recognition-published-by-the-nilsson-lab-in-molecular-cell/ Protein phosphatases play important roles in cellular signaling as they remove phosphorylations from...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2016_1/novel-insight-into-protein-phosphatase-substrate-recognition-published-by-the-nilsson-lab-in-molecular-cell/" alt="Novel insight into protein phosphatase substrate recognition published by the Nilsson group in Molecular Cell" title="Novel insight into protein phosphatase substrate recognition published by the Nilsson group in Molecular Cell"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/logos/mol_cell_logo_original.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2016_1/novel-insight-into-protein-phosphatase-substrate-recognition-published-by-the-nilsson-lab-in-molecular-cell/ Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:45:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2015/daniel-lab-publishes-in-genes--development/ Antibody class-switching is crucial for generating certain types of antibodies, such as IgG, that can...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2015/daniel-lab-publishes-in-genes--development/" alt="Novel protein complex generates antibody diversity" title="Novel protein complex generates antibody diversity"><img src="https://www.cpr.ku.dk/logos/genes-and-development-logo-55pxl.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2015/daniel-lab-publishes-in-genes--development/ Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:30:00 +0100 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2015/grants-from-the-danish-cancer-society-to-cpr-researchers-niels-mailand-guillermo-montoya-jakob-nilsson-and-jeremy-a-daniel/ Associate Professor, MSc., ph.d. Jeremy Austin Daniel from Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2015/grants-from-the-danish-cancer-society-to-cpr-researchers-niels-mailand-guillermo-montoya-jakob-nilsson-and-jeremy-a-daniel/ Tue, 19 May 2015 08:30:00 +0200 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2015/montoya-group-publishes-in-nature-communications/ Today the crystal structure of p15-PAF in complex with PCNA has been published in Nature Communications.... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2015/montoya-group-publishes-in-nature-communications/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:45:00 +0100 https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2014/montoya-visualizing-phosphodiester-bond-hydrolysis/ A press release from CNIO the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre reveals how a group of scientists... https://www.cpr.ku.dk/selected-publications/2014/montoya-visualizing-phosphodiester-bond-hydrolysis/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:30:00 +0100