Numerical simulation for a better understanding of interactions between proteins and DNA

Designing innovative mathematical methods and algorithms for modelling electromagnetic phenomena and electrical propagation in complex systems has extremely concrete applications, in particular in the health field.

How can we make sure that a therapeutic molecule reaches its target unhindered? This is an important issue for the pharmaceutical industry: sometimes molecules that have been successfully tested in-vitro fail in-vivo to cross the barrier formed by the membrane of their target cells.

Dystrophin is a key protein that plays a role in helping muscles resist stress but its exact function, so essential to the survival of the muscle, is still relatively unknown even on the molecular scale, chiefly because of its size.