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The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Booster Fund supports newly independent researchers in the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ area by awarding them a one-off grant of €25,000 for 1 year to spend on small equipment, consumables, or research-based travel, to develop a novel research project. 

¹û¶³´«Ã½ is pleased to announce here the researchers selected by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Excellence Awards and Fellowships Committee to receive a ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Booster Fund grant following the inaugural call for this scheme in 2024. We congratulate the recipients on their selection and wish them success in their next research steps.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ Booster Fund recipients 2024:

Nuno Dinis Alves
ICVS, University of Minho, Portugal
Research area: Serotoninergic circuitries in the healthy and in the ‘stressed’ brain

Marten Exterkate
Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
Research area: Membrane biogenesis and cellular division

Marta Kolonko-Adamska
Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Research area: Protein structure determination and the structure–function relationship

Sara Silva Pereira
Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Oeiras, Portugal
Research area: Interaction of parasites with blood vessels

Rita Petracca
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Research area: Protein crotonylation in cancer: regulation, impact, therapeutic potential

Zoi Piperigkou
University of Patras, Greece
Research area: Exosome-mediated cell–cell communication and matrix dynamics in 2D/3D cell platforms

Mirel Adrian Popa
ICBP-NS, Bucharest, Romania
Research area: Cardiovascular regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies

Urszula Zarzecka
University of Gdansk, Poland
Research area: Proteostasis in the human pathogen Helicobacter pylori

 


The call for applications for the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Booster Fund in 2025 is expected to open 1 March 2025. The closing date will be 1 May 2025.