ERC funding at KI

ERC Advanced Grants

ERC Advanced Grants, worth up to 2.5 million EUR over five years, allow exceptional research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains. The ERC Advanced Grant funding targets researchers who have already established themselves as independent research leaders in their own right. 

ERC Consolidator Grants

ERC Consolidator Grants, worth up to 2 million Euro over 5 years, are designed to support researchers at the stage at which they are consolidating their own independent research team or programme. The scheme will strengthen independent and excellent new individual research teams that have been recently created. 

KI ERC Consolidator Grants

(awarded to or moved to KI)

SAFER (ERC-2023-CoG) – Pauliina Damdimopolou: 'SAfeguarding female FERtility -development of human-relevant in vitro tools for reproductive toxicity'

MYCinTOPshape (ERC-2022-CoG) – Laura Baranello: 'Mechanism and targeting of topoisomerase regulatory interactions to arrest MYC-driven tumors'

ChromaDYN (ERC-2022-CoG) – Simon Elsässer: 'Quantitative multimodal pulse-and-label time-resolved chromatin maps'

divENSify (ERC-2021-CoG) – Ulrika Marklund: 'Dissecting a stepwise principle of cellular diversification to instruct regeneration in the enteric nervous system'

DELIVER (ERC-2020-CoG) – Samir El Andaloussi: 'Release of engineered Extracellular vesicles for delivery of Biotherapeutics'

ANTIBODYPAIN (ERC-2019-CoG) – Camilla Svensson: 'Autoantibodies and chronic pain - Unraveling new mechanisms contributing to pain in rheumatic disease'

MacinNASH (ERC-2019-CoG) – Myriam Aouadi: 'Revealing the contribution of liver macrophage populations to NASH in insulin resistance'

SCHIZTYPE (ERC-2018-CoG) – Jens Hjerling Leffler: 'Brain cell type-specific interactions and schizophrenia'

ARTSILK (ERC-2018-CoG) – Anna Rising: 'Novel approaches to the generation of artificial spider-silk super fibers'

Epi4MS (ERC-2018-CoG) – Maja Jagodic: 'Targeting the epigenome for a better understanding of disease pathogenesis and novel therapeutic strategies in Multiple Sclerosis'

Reprogram-Diabetes (ERC-2017-CoG) – Olov Andersson: 'In vivo drug discovery for cellular reprogramming to β-cells; towards a future regenerative therapy for diabetes'

PREVENT RA (ERC-2017-CoG) – Anca Catrina: 'Towards prevention of autoimmune diseases; the case of rheumatoid arthritis'

CellTrack (ERC-2016-CoG) – Björn Högberg: 'Cellular Position Tracking Using DNA Origami Barcodes'

EPIScOPE (ERC-2015-CoG) – Gonçalo Castelo-Branco: 'Reversing the epigenetic state of oligodendrocyte precursors cells in multiple sclerosis'

PreventStoCan (ERC-2015-CoG) – Weimin Ye: 'Understanding microbe-induced stomach cancer; the key to a workable strategy for worldwide prevention'

Allelic Regulation (ERC-2014-CoG) – Rickard Sandberg: 'Revealing allele-level regulation and dynamics using single-cell gene expression analyses

PROGSY (ERC-2014-CoG) – Per Svenningsson: 'Prosaposin and GPR37 in synucleinopathies'

REBOOT (ERC-2013-CoG) – Martin Lövdén: 'Releasing the breaks on adult plasticity'

MECHCOMM (ERC-2013-CoG) – Ana Teixeira: 'Mechanotransduction in cell-to-cell communication'

ERC Starting Grants

ERC Starting Grants, worth up to 1.5 million Euro over five years, aim to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe. The scheme targets promising researchers who have the potential to become independent research leaders. It will support the creation of excellent new research teams. 

KI ERC Starting Grants

(awarded to or moved to KI)

BrainLoops (ERC-2023-StG) – Alessandro Furlan: 'Control of body weight by specialized brain-adipose loop neurons'

Precision Lethality (ERC-2023-StG) – Kasper Karlsson: 'Precision Lethality to overcome clonal heterogeneity in high-risk neuroblastoma'

FASTer (ERC-2023-StG) – Juan Pablo Lopez: 'Identifying the Fast-acting Antidepressant Signatures of Treatment Response with psychedelic compounds using a novel behavioral tracking system and single-cell resolution'

MultiPRESS (ERC-2022-StG) – David Marlevi: 'Multiscale imaging of cardiovascular pressure gradients – a paradigm shift in hemodynamic risk prediction' 

EnhanceRegen (ERC-2022-StG) – Enric Llorens: 'Rewiring gene regulatory circuits to enhance central nervous system repair'

E-CTRL (ERC-2022-StG) – Onur Dagliyan: 'Engineered Control of Cellular Circuits'

TRACE (ERC-2021-StG) – Marcus Buggert: 'Tracing virus-specific CD8+ T cell clonotype zonation and function in humans' 

SUBTREAT (ERC-2021-StG) – Lu Yi: 'Subtype as a key to reduce heterogeneity of treatment effects in major depressive disorder' 

SOLAR (ERC-2021-StG) – Björn Lindström: ‘Mechanisms of Social Learning in Social Contagion and Cultural Evolution’ (moved from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

RESIDE (ERC-2020-StG) – Niklas Björkström: 'Dissecting tissue-resident lymphocyte homeostasis in humans'

OLFLINK (ERC-2020-StG) – Janina Seubert: 'Olfaction as the link between flavour preference formation and retrieval during food consumption'

SEXimmune (ERC-2020-StG) – Nils Landegren: 'Deciphering sex differences in the human immune system' (moved to Uppsala University)

Hot-Coal WM (ERC-2020-StG) – Mikael Lundqvist: ‘The Hot-Coal hypothesis of working memory’ (moved from Stockholm University)

GUT-SEQ (ERC-2019-StG) – Jenny Mjösberg: 'Single-cell analysis of intestinal lymphocytes reveals targets for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease'

TroyCAN (ERC-2019-StG) – Maria Genander: 'Redefining the esophageal stem cell niche – towards targeting of squamous cell carcinoma'

VIVA (ERC-2019-StG) – Pia Dosenovic: 'Vaccine development against variable pathogens' 

MegaALS (ERC-2018-StG) – Fang Fang: 'Unraveling the Interplay between Metabolism, Gut Microbiome and Adaptive Immunity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis'

TRIBAL (ERC-2017-StG) – Erik Melén: 'Biomarkers for respiratory disease'

PROMETHEUS (ERC-2017-StG) – Georgios Sotiriou: 'Fighting infections and antimicrobial resistance with nanoengineering'

GENOMIS (ERC-2016-StG) – Magda Bienko: 'Illuminating GENome Organization through integrated MIcroscopy and Sequencing'

RAPID (ERC-2016-StG) – Simon Elsässer: 'Chromatin dynamics resolved by rapid protein labeling and bioorthogonal capture'

MitoMethylome (ERC-2016-StG) – Anna Wredenberg: 'Mitochondrial methylation and its role in health and disease'

Born-Immune (ERC-2015-StG) – Petter Brodin: 'Shaping of the human immune system by primal environmental exposures in the newborn child'

NORVAS (ERC-2015-StG) – Lars Maegdefessel: 'Therapeutic and biomarker potential of long non-coding RNAs in vascular disease'

CogOpto (ERC-2013-STG) – Marie Carlén: 'The role of parvalbumin in interneurons in cognition and behaviour'

Cardiomics (ERC-2013-StG) – Erik Ingelsson: 'Use of -omics methods in large populations for identification of novel drug targets and clinical biomarkers for coronary heart disease'

NOVEL_MYOKINE (ERC-2012-StG) – Pontus Boström: 'Irisin–a novel myokine protective against metabolic disease'

SEQ-CYTOTOX (ERC-2012-StG) – Yenan Bryceson: 'Next-generation sequencing for detection of human primary immunodeficiency syndromes'

PERICYTESCAR (ERC-2012-StG) – Christian Göritz: 'The role of pericytes in central nervous system scarring and fibrosis'

TUMORGAN (ERC-2012-StG) – Kristian Pietras: 'Exploring the tumor as a communicating organ'

F12 (ERC-2012-StG) – Tomas Renné: 'Factor XII and the contact system: cross-talk between thrombosis and inflammation' 

ELSI​​​​​​​ (ERC-2011-StG) – Andreas Olsson: 'Emotional learning in social interaction'

SENSTRIATUM​​​​​​​ (ERC-2011-StG) – Gilad Silberberg: 'Sensory integration in the striatal microcircuit'

BRAINGAIN​​​​​​​ (ERC-2011-StG) – Andras Simon: 'Novel strategies for brain regeneration'

ENDOSWITCH​​​​​​​ (ERC-2010-StG) – Christian Broberger: 'Network principles of neuroendocrine control: Tuberoinfundibular Dopamine (TIDA) Oscillations and the Regulation of Lactation'

GAMETE RECOGNITION (ERC-2010-StG) – ​​​​​​​Luca Jovine: 'Molecular basis of mammalian egg-sperm interaction'

BRAINCELL (ERC-2010-StG) – ​​​​​​​Sten Linnarsson: 'Charting the landscape of brain development by large-scale single-cell transcriptomics and phylogenetic lineage reconstruction'

HUFATREG​​​​​​​ (ERC-2010-StG) – Kirsty Spalding: 'Adipose tissue mass regulation in lean and obese individuals'

IMMUNOSWITCH (ERC-2009-StG) – Qiang Pan-Hammarström: 'Switch recombination: A model for DNA editing and repair in human lymphocytes with relevance for primary immunodeficiency and cancer formation'

SINGLE-CELL GENOMICS​​​​​​​ (ERC-2009-StG) – Rickard Sandberg: 'Single-cell gene regulation in differentiation and pluripotency'

BODY-OWNERSHIP​​​​​​​ (ERC-2007-StG) – Henrik Ehrsson: 'Neural mechanisms of body ownership and the projection of ownership onto artificial bodies'

GENOMIC STABILITY (ERC-2007-StG) – Camilla Sjögren: 'Genomic stability: Chromosome segregation and repair'

ERC Proof of Concept

(awarded to KI)

The "Proof of Concept" ERC funding scheme is open to researchers who have already been awarded an ERC grant. The grant is worth up to 150.000 Euro over 1.5 years. ERC grant holders can apply for this additional funding to establish the innovation potential of ideas arising from their ERC-funded frontier research projects. 

KI ERC Proof of Concept Grants 

SILORGS (ERC-2023-PoC) – Per-Olof Berggren: 'Sensor islet organoids (SILORGS) for in vivo identification of anti-diabetic drugs'

SPHERO-NASH (ERC-2023-PoC) – Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg: 'A novel NASH model for target and drug candidate identification'

TREATMENT (ERC-2022-PoC) – Adam Williamson: 'Targeting peripheral nerves: a method for therapeutic modulation of inflammatory disease with non-invasive temporal interference' 

hmqPro (ERC-2022-PoC) – Simon Elsässer: 'Highly multiplexed, quantitative protein biomarker profiling'

FuseSeq (ERC-2022-PoC) – Björn Högberg: 'Single-molecule reconstruction for high-throughput, short-read sequencing technologies'

ArtSilkTex (ERC-2022-PoC) – Anna Rising: 'Artificial spider silk textiles'
 

HOTSKIN (ERC-2020-PoC) – Georgios Sotiriou: 'Hybrid drug-loaded plasmonic photothermal microneedle patch against skin infections' 

hmqChIP (ERC-2020-PoC) – Simon Elsässer: 'Highly multiplexed, quantitative epigenetic profiling'

DOIIF (ERC-2020-PoC) – Thomas Helleday: 'Development of small molecule OGG1 Inhibitor and proof of concept in bleomycin-induced disease model of Inflammation and pulmonary Fibrosis'

BETASCREEN (ERC-2016-PoC) – Per-Olof Berggren: 'Validation of an in vivo translational medicine approach for the treatment of diabetes and diabetes complications'

NOVITREP (ERC-2016-PoC) – Thomas Helleday: 'Novel viral therapy through targeting DNA repair'

CODIC (ERC-2015-PoC) – Thomas Helleday: 'Commercializing first-in-class dCTPase Inhibitors for treatment of hematological Cancers'

GlioVac (ERC-2014-PoC) – Patrik Ernfors: 'Validation of a conceptually new treatment for glioblastoma multiforme'

POCUMINT​​​​​​​ (ERC-2013-PoC) – Thomas Helleday: 'Proof of concept use of MTH1 inhibitors as new treatments for cancer'

PRACTICE​​​​​​​ (ERC-2012-PoC) – Lars Klareskog: 'Prevent Rheumatoid Arthritis in Practice'