Eleven ERC Starting Grants for Helmholtz

In the current round of ERC Starting Grants, Helmholtz was able to secure a total of 11 grants.

The ‘Starting Grants’ funding line is aimed at researchers at the beginning of their careers and is funded with up to 1.5 million euros over a period of five years.

An overview of the successful applicants and their projects:

  • Reid Alderson, Helmholtz Munich (Protein-DANCE: Protein Dynamic Atlas from NMR-based measurements of Conformational Exchange)
  • Marcel Binz, Helmholtz Munich (MIDAS: Modeling the Integrated minD At Scale)
  • Casey Huysegmos (Paquola), Forschungszentrum Jülich (NEUROCAST: Neurodevelopmental forecasting of mental illness in adolescence)
  • Daniel Kirschenbaum, DKFZ (VideoTranscriptomics: Spatiotemporal Mapping of Immune Cell Behavior in Glioblastoma)
  • Lena Kutscher, DKFZ (MB-squared: Male bias in medulloblastoma)
  • Viviana Rincon Montes, Forschungszentrum Jülich (CoalescentBrain: camouflaged Neural Implants for Coalescent Brain Integration)
  • Maryia Rusak, KIT (DATAARK: Designing United Europe: Data-Driven Architectural Networks)
  • Michael Scherer, DKFZ (EPI-SENSOR: Integrating DNA Methylation and Drug Abundance at Single-Cell Resolution to Predict Cancer Drug Sensitivity)
  • Karin Schwarzenberger, HZDR (InterTrace: Interfacial flow tracing for gas-liquid mass transfer processes)
  • Larisa Tarasova, UFZ (earth.zip: Hidden multi-scale geometry of landscapes: uncovering functional similarity in the Earth’s fluvial water systems)
  • Jingyuan Xu, KIT (COOLWEAVE: Elastocaloric Cooling with Porous Woven Regenerator)

All starting grants

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