Bijvoet Center
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| Motto | Discovering the Molecular Basis of Life |
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| Established | 1988 |
| Scientific Director | prof. dr. Marc Baldus |
| Faculty | ~30 |
| Staff | ~150 |
| Budget | ~10 M€ per annum |
| Location | Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Address | Padualaan 8, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Website | www.bijvoet-center.eu |
Coordinates: 52°05′08″N 5°10′08″E / 52.085545°N 5.168971°E
The Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research is a research institute located at Utrecht University. The Bijvoet Center performs research on the relation between the structure and function of biomolecules, including proteins and lipids, which play a role in biological processes such as regulation, interaction and recognition. The Bijvoet Center houses advanced infrastructures for the analysis of proteins and other biomolecules using NMR, X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy and mass spectrometry. The institute is named after famous Dutch chemist Johannes Martin Bijvoet, who worked at Utrecht University.
Utrecht University and the Netherlands Foundation for Chemical Research (SON, which later became the Chemical Sciences division of NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) founded the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research as a joint research institute on March 25, 1988. The goal was to create a center for research and expertise in structural biology with an internationally recognized academic staff and an advanced instrumental and computational infrastructure, with the original task to "conduct research into the molecular structure and reactivity of chemically and biologically important, medium-sized molecules and new methods to analyze them".
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