Awarded Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions projects at KI

2023

Manasa Shanta Yerramalla, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society.
Project CLOCKED: Sleep genes and Circadian rhythm in dementia prevention. Principal Investigator: Shireen Sindi.

Theodora Manolakou, Department of Oncology-Pathology. 
Project DDRAsTic: Targeting DNA Damage Response and Metabolism for Precision Medicine in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Principal Investigator: Thomas Helleday.

Krishnashand Padmanabhan, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. 
DeSTENy: SpatioTemporal Diversification of Enteric Nervous system. Principal Investigator: Ulrika Marklund. 

Dimitrius Guimaraes, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.
Project: HISTORABLE: Unveiling the role of histone marks in metabolic memory storage and transmission. 
Principal Investigator: Juleen Zierath.

Thomas Contesse, Department of Neuroscience.
Project HOPES: Habenula molecular and functional Organization in models of Pathological Emotional States. Principal Investigator: Konstantinos Meletis.

Till Bruckner, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.
Project ICTR: Improving Clinical Trials Reporting. Principal Investigator: Gustav Nilsonne.

Pradeep R Reddy, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology.
Project: MAPiT: Dissolving microneedle array patch-based psoriatic immunotherapy using nanoparticles. Principal Investigator: Georgios Sotiriou.

Luis Miguel Cardoso dos Santos, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Project MaResIn: Smooth muscle cell modulation by the MaR1-LGR6 duo: novel role in the resolution of human cardiovascular inflammation. Principal Investigator: Magnus Bäck. 

Mattia Zaghi, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project MonitorMS: Monitor Multiple Sclerosis evolution using body fluids derive cell-free epigenomics. Principal Investigator: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Lauren Phipps, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. 
Project NeurogENSity: Characterising the molecular and cellular basis of enteric nervous system alterations in the inflamed gut. Principal Investigator: Ulrika Marklund. 

Ting Sun, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project ResilMS: Deciphering SNPs involved in oligodendroglia functional resilience in multiple sclerosis. Principal Investigator: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Tomasz Czerniak, Department of Women's and Children's Health.
Project RNA-lipid: Characterisation and design of RNA-lipid interactions for RNA therapeutics. Principal Investigator: Erdinc Sezgin.

2022

Luca Panariello, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project BiorthoCat-Immuno: Biorthogonal Catalytic Scaffold for in situ Personalized Cancer Chemo-Immunotherapy. Principal Investigator: Molly Stevens.

Niki Karouta, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology. 
Project BioCaPHeal: Flame-made calcium phosphate nanoparticles for biological drug delivery toward healing chronic wound. Principal Investigator: Georgios Sotiriou

Giada Di Nunzio, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Project LIPIDEMIA:Initiation Mechanisms of Lipid-driven Diseases. Principal Investigator: Stephen Malin.

Per Davidson, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.
Project NAPS: Examining effects of daytime naps on memory consolidation and emotional reactivity in a well-powered, pre-registered multi-lab collaboration. Principal Investigator: Gustav Nilsonne. 

Julia Rogal, Department of Neuroscience.
Project NEoC: NeuroEnergetics-on-Chip: Disease modeling of impaired brain glucose metabolism using human iPSC-derived neurovascular units (NVU)-on-chip systems. Principal Investigator: Anna Herland.

Sigrid Wahlen, Department of Medicine, Huddinge.
Project VITNK: Deciphering vitamin A and D regulation of human NK cells for cellular immunotherapy. Principal Investigator: Yenan Bryceson.

2021

Mariano D'Angelo, Department of Neuroscience.
Project Binding the self: How cortical oscillations bind sensory stimuli into a multisensory representation of the physical self. Principal Investigator: Henrik Ehrsson. 

Rubin Dasgupta, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. 
Project ECONOMICS: In cellular conformations of microRNA-34a via magnetic resonance. Principal Investigator: Katja Petzold 

Sha Sun, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project LIPIRNADO: Targeted delivery of lipid nanoparticle-mRNA formulations modified with ligand pattern to dendritic cells based on DNA origami. Principal Investigator: Björn Högberg.

Jan Schlegel, Department of Women's and Children's Health. 
Project nano-Asymmetry: Nanoscale analysis of symmetry and molecular membrane topography. Principal Investigator: Erdinc Sezgin. 

Elisabeth Verboven, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.
Project Neuro-biliary talk: Innervation-driven mechanisms of bile duct development. Principal Investigator: Emma Andersson. 

Lenka Belicova, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.
Project PlasticLiver: Mechanisms of cell plasticity in the liver. Principal Investigator: Emma Andersson

Martyna Lukoseviciute, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. 
Project SCIENSC: Identification of Transiently Formed Immune-Endogenous Neural Stem Cell Niches in Spinal Cord Injury Principal Investigator: Jonas Frisén 

Xavier Job, Department of Neuroscience. 
Project SELF-TOUCH: Perception in Action: Neural Dynamics of Sensorimotor Interactions in Touch. Principal Investigator: Konstantina Kilteni.

2020

Hongya Geng, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. 
Project ProRegScaffold: Highly Biomimetic Proregenerative Scaffold for Personalized Nerve Repair. Principal Investigator: Molly Stevens.

Camila Consiglio, Department of Women's and Children's Health.
Project SHIFT: Dissecting the role of sex hormones in human antiviral immunity. Principal Investigator: Petter Brodin.

2019

Laura Crucianelli, Department of Neuroscience. 
Project Homeothermic Self: Behavioural, psychophysiological and neuroimaging investigations on the role of temperature perception in body ownership. Principal Investigator: Henrik Ehrsson.

Andrea Teufelberger, Department of Medicine, Solna. 
Project MITafterVIT: Unravelling maintenance mechanisms of immune tolerance after termination of venom immunotherapy by means of clonal mast cell diseases. Principal Investigator: Gunnar Nilsson.

Eleni Bletsa, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology. 
Project PHOTO-IASIS: Nanoengineered coatings for visible-light photocatalytic disinfection of medical devices. Principal Investigator: Georgios Sotiriou.

2018

Ionut Dumitru, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. 
Project HUMANE: Transcriptional characterization of human postnatal and adult neural progenitors and of the stem cell niches. Principal Investigator: Jonas Frisén.

Pavitra Kannan, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology. 
Project IMaP: Imaging tumor vessels as a marker for p53 mutation status in cancer. Principal Investigator: Sir David Lane.

Carolyn Cesta, Department of Medicine, Solna. 
Project InPreSS: International Pregnancy Safety Study. Principal Investigator: Helle Kieler.

Camilla Engblom, Department of Medicine, Solna. 
Project PCinBC: Plasma cell heterogeneity and dynamics in patient tumors. Principal Investigator: Jonas Frisén.

Jinan Behnan, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. 
Project Recruit: Origin and Function of Tumor-Associated Macrophages and Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in GBM Subtypes. Principal Investigator: Patrik Ernfors.

Kimberly Siletti, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. 
Project SCSC: The molecular diversity of regeneration in the zebrafish spinal cord. Principal Investigator: Sten Linnarsson.

Quirin Hammer, Department of Medicine, Huddinge.
Project SYNKIT: Synthetic Natural Killer Cells for Immunotherapy. Principal Investigator: Karl-Johan Malmberg.

Lilit Nersisyan, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology.
Project TERMINATOR: Ribosomal frameshifts as a novel mechanism to control RNA turnover in stress. Principal Investigator: Vicente Pelechano.

2017

Donatella Galgano, Department of Medicine, Huddinge. 
Project CL-Exocytosis: Molecular dissection of cytotoxic lymphocyte exocytosis. Principal Investigator: Yenan Bryceson

Kaarina Kowalec, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Project ClinGen-PsychTx: Identifying Clinical, Demographic, and Genomic Risk Factors for Treatment-Resistant Psychiatric Disorders. Principal Investigator: Patrick Sullivan

Patricia Rodriguez, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society.
Project NEVULA: Understanding selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease. Principal Investigator: Angel Cedazo Minguez

Beatrice Zetti, Department of Medicine, Huddinge. 
Project SkinTrmDeep: Tissue Resident Memory (Trm) CD8+ T cells: Genome-wide dissection of cellular differentiation and heterogeneity. Principal Investigator: Yenan Bryceson

Eneritz Agirre, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. 
Project SOLO: Single cell omics of the Oligodendrocyte Lineage in develOpment and disease. Principal Investigator: Gonҫalo Castelo-Branco

Angelica Cuapio Gomez, Department of Medicine, Huddinge. 
Project TickThaNK: Tick-borne encephalitis Targeted by Human Active NK cells. Principal Investigator: Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren

2016

Chiara Sorini, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Project MIRA: Characterizing Microbe-specific Immune Responses in the pathogenesis of Autoimmunity. Principal Investigator: Eduardo Villablanca

Christopher Wood, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.  
Project NanoTraction Nano Traction. Principal Investigator: Molly Stevens

Judith Schlagnitweit, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. 
Project RNAatHD: Development of a high-resolution method to monitor structural changes of regulatory RNAs and therapeutic oligo-nucleotides directly in-cell. Principal Investigator: Katja Petzold

Pawel Tacikowski, Department of Neuroscience.
Project SELFIEv2.0: Identifying the neuronal basis of self-concept in the human medial prefrontal and medial temporal brain regions. Principal Investigator: Henrik Ehrsson

2015

Alessandro Bosco, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. 
Project DynaSpaCER: Molecular Mechanisms of Dynamic and Spatial Control of Eph Receptors clustering. Principal Investigator: Ana Teixeira

Hana Kammoun, Department of Medicine, Huddinge. 
Project MICRO-MACRO-ILC: Dissecting the human microbiota-macrophage-innate lymphoid cell crosstalk in the lung. Principal Investigator: Tim Willinger

Derrick Roberts, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.  
Project Multi-SIP Hydrogel: A multifunctional self-immolative hydrogel for accelerating the healing of chronic wounds. Principal Investigator: Molly Stevens

Soniya Savant, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. 
Project PERICYTEStroma: Pericyte-derived tumor stroma – a target for cancer therapy. Principal Investigator: Christian Göritz

Adam Gormley, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. 
Project PolyDrug Discovery: Discovery of anticancer polymeric drugs that mimic the action of TRAIL. Principal Investigator: Molly Stevens

Hanna Barriga, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. 
Project SmartCubes: An innovative class of nanoparticles (“SmartCubes”) for the targeted delivery of protein therapeutics. Principal Investigator: Molly Stevens

Nicolas Pillon, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. 
Project SMILED: Skeletal Muscle Inflammation: ambivalent roles in Exercise and Diabetes. Principal Investigator: Juleen Zierath.

Konstantina Kilteni, Department of Neuroscience. 
Project TICKLE ME: Self and others in the sensorimotor system: a computational neuroanatomy of sensory attenuation. Principal Investigator: Henrik Ehrsson

Niklas Mejhert, Department of Medicine, Huddinge. 
Project TGDNL: Mechanisms of cellular fatty acid homeostasis. Principal Investigator: Mikael Rydén

2014

Viktoria Konya, Department of Medicine, Huddinge. 
Project GutILC3: Cell-cell interactions critical to ILC3 function in the human gut. Principal Investigator: Jenny Mjösberg

Joao Rosa, Department of Clinical Neuroscience. 
Project VECTORIGAMI: DNA Origami for drug delivery. Principal Investigator: Björn Högberg

Hildur Arnardottir, Department of Medicine, Solna. 
Project RvD3-RAVIS: Novel Resolvin D3: its Role and Actions in the Resolution of Aortic Valvular Inflammation and Stenosis. Principal Investigator: Magnus Bäck

2023

NeXED GA 101168892. Network for Cross-disciplinary assessment of Endocrine Disrupting compounds: training the next generation of toxicologists. Principal Investigator: Anna Beronius.

NUCLEAR GA 101166838. Metabolic Regulation of Genome Function and Cell Iidentity. Principal Investigator: Andreas Lennartsson.

RESPIRE-EXECEL GA 101169403. Respiratory Precision Medicine PhD Training Network- Excellence through Systems Biology, Spatial and Single-cell Transcriptomics. Principal Investigator: Jenny Mjörsberg.

UNION GA 1101167421. UnderstandiNg fraIlty tOwards a future of healthy ageiNg. Principal Investigator: Davide Liborio Vetrano.

2022

BonePainIII GA 101120524 Identifying mechanisms and novel treatments of bone pain – closing the gap to the clinic. Principal Investigator: Camilla Svensson.

PRESSURE GA 101119464 Preventing Therapy Resistance in Esophageal Cancer Using Advanced Models and Molecular Signatures. Principal Investigator: Magnus Nilsson.

2021

MITGEST GA 101072515 Quality Control of the Mitochondrial Gene Expression System in Health and Disease. Principal Investigator: Joanna Rorbach. 

REGENERATE-IT GA 101073238 Learning from animals how to regenerate: multidisciplinary training programme in regenerative biology. Principal Investigator: András Simon.       

2020

OLIGOMED GA 956070 Oligonucleotides for Medical Applications
Principal Investigator: Roger Strömberg

CEN GA 956414 Cerebellum and Emotional Networks
Principal Investigator: Kristoffer Månsson. Fellow: Tugce Yildiz.

ALLODD GA 956314 Allostery in Drug Discovery
Principal Investigator: Roman Zubarev    

2019

CAST GA 857894 Active Monitoring of Cancer As An Alternative To Surgery
Principal Investigator: Anna Martling. Fellow: Sofieke Temmink.

CANCERPREV GA 859860  Innovative strategies for cancer prevention with focus on sex hormone signaling and chronic inflammation
Principal Investigator: Mikael Altun. Fellow: Maria Joao Almeida Silva Pires.

SAND GA 860035 Secretion, Autophagy and their role in Neurodegeneration
Principal Investigator: Per ET Nilsson. Fellow: Joanna Mayer.

euSNN GA 860563 European School of Network Neuroscience
Principal Investigators: Sten Grillner, Marie Carlén. Fellows: William Scott Thompson, Marina Slashcheva.

Cell2Cell GA 860675 What makes a successful pathogen? Understanding the impact of cell-to-cell heterogeneity in chromatin structure on infection and adaptation.
Principal Investigator: Magda Bienko. Fellow: Wing Hin Yip. 

PERFORCE3 GA 860665 Innovative Training Network on PER and polyfluorinated alkyl substances towards the Future Of Research and its Communication in Europe 3
Principal Investigator: Mattias Öberg. Fellow: Lars Brunken. 

PRECODE GA 861196 PancREatic Cancer OrganoiDs rEsearch Network
Principal Investigator: Matthias Löhr. Fellow Beate Gündel. 

SmartAge GA 859890 Gut-brain-axis: Targets for improvement of cognition in the elderly.
Principal Investigator: Rochellys Heijtz Diaz. Fellow: Inez Martinez Sanchez.                    

2018

aDDRess GA 812829 Joint Training and Research Program on Chromatin Dynamics and the DNA Damage Response
Principal Investigator: Nicola Crosetto. Fellow: Luuk Harbers.

ASCTN-Training GA 813851 Training for Advanced Stem Cell Technologies in Neurology
Principal Investigator: Ernest Arenas. Fellow: Guochang Lyu. 

BonePainII GA 814244 A European Training Network to Combat  Bone Pain.
Principal Investigator: Camilla Svensson. Fellow: Nils Simon. 

SAPIENS GA 814302 Shaping the social brain through early interactions.
Principal Investigator: Terje Falck-Ytter. Fellow: Irzam Hardiansyah. 

V.A. Cure GA 814316 A multidisciplinary approach towards sustainable improvement in rare diseases care uniting Europe's top class vascular research to find new treatment strategies for vascular anomalies
Principal Investigator: Lars Jakobsson. Fellow: Antonio Queiro Palou. 

ArthritisHeal GA 812890 Establishing the molecular fundamentals of arthritic diseases – a step forward to Heal Arthritis
Principal Investigators: Per-Johan Jakobsson, Åsa Wheelock. Fellows Jianyang Liu, Benedikt Zöhrer. 

MATER GA 813707 Innovative Training Network in Female Reproductive Care
Principal Investigator:s Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, Juha Kere. Fellows: Nina Boskovic, Yiqun Tang.      

2017

AiPBAND GA 764281 An Integrated Platform for Developing Brain Cancer Diagnostic Techniques
Principal Investigator: Janne Lehtiö. Fellow: Haris Babacic. 

CaReSyAn GA 764474 Combatting the CardioRenal Syndrome: towards an integrative Analysis to reduce cardiovascular burden in chronic kidney disease
Principal Investigator: Peter Stenvinkel. Fellow: Sam Hobson. 

NANOSTEM GA 764958 New nanomaterials for neural stem cells drug delivery
Principal Investigator: Ana Teixiera. Fellow: Georges Kiriako. 

COSMIC GA 765158 COmbatting disorders of adaptive immunity with Systems MedICine
Principal Investigator: Rikard Holmdahl. Fellows: Ana Coehlo, Alexander Krämer. 

DNA-Robotics GA 765703 DNA-Based Modular Nanorobotics.
Principal Investigator: Björn Högberg. Fellows: Igor Baars, Marco Lolaico. 

TOBeATPAIN GA 764860 Targeting neuroinflammation to combat pathological pain in neurodegenerative diseases and chronic pain syndromes
Principal Investigators: Camilla Svensson, Eva Kosek. Fellows: Silvia Fanton, Joana Menezes.                  

2016

INTRICARE GA 722609 International Network for Training on Risks of vascular Intimal Calcification And roads to Regression of cardiovascular disease
Principal Investigators: Peter Stenvinkel, Johan Frostegård, Magnus Bäck, Ulf Hedin.
Fellows: Lu Dai, Shailesh Samal, Nikolaos Skenteris, Till Seime. 

MMBio GA 721613 Molecular Tools for Nucleic Acid Manipulation for Biological Intervention.
Principal Investigator: Roger Strömberg. Fellow: Olivia Luige. 

TRANSMIT GA 722605 TRANSlating the role of Mitochondria in Tumorigenesis
Principal Investigator: Maria Shoshan. Fellow: Nicole Bezuidenhout. 

SYNTRAIN GA 722729 Targeting SYNthetic lethal interactions for new cancer treatments TRAINing network.
Principal Investigator: Thomas Helleday. Fellows: Aleksandra Pettke, Bishoy Hanna. 

CAPICE GA 721567 Childhood and Adolescence Psychopathology: unravelling the complex etiology by a large Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Europe
Principal Investigator: Paul Lichtenstein. Fellow: Ashley Thompson. 

ESIT GA 722046 European School for Interdisciplinary Tinnitus Research.
Principal Investigator: Christoher Cederroth. Fellow: Natalia Trpchevska.          

2015

SyDAD GA 676144 Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer Disease.
Principal Investigator: Bengt Winblad. Fellows: Giacomo Dentoni, Hazal Haytural, Una Smailovic.

EVOluTION GA 675111 European Vascular Interventions and Therapeutic Innovation Network.
Principal Investigator: Jon Lundberg. Fellow: Chiara Moretti.

ISOTOPICS GA 675071 ISOTOPIC LABELING FOR DRUG INNOVATION
Principal Investigator: Christer Halldin. Fellows: Kaisa Horkka, Melodie Ferrat. 

INDUCT GA 676265 Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology (INDUCT).
Principal Investigator: Louise Nygård. Fellows: Sophie Gaber, Sarah Wallcook. 

ChroMe GA 675610 Chromatin and Metabolism Chromatin-metabolism interactions as targets for healthy living
Principal Investigator: Juleen Zierath. Fellow: Laura Sardon Puig.            

2014

MiND GA 643051 Mastering skills in the training Network for attention deficit hyperactivity and autism spectrum Disorders. 
Principal Investigator: Henrik Larsson. Fellow: Laura Ghirardi. 

Chromatin3D GA 642934 Chromatin Dynamics in Development and Disease.
Principal Investigator: Anita Göndör, Rolf Olsson. Fellows: Ilias Tzelepis, Mirco Martino.

ZENCODE-ITN GA 643062 Computational and functional annotation of genomic elements during development of the model vertebrate zebrafish .
Principal Investigator: Carsten Daub. Fellows: Irene Stevens, Abdul Kadir Mukarram, Matthias Hörtenhuber, Michael Dong.

BonePain GA 642720 European Training Network on Bone Pain
Principal Investigator: Camilla Svensson. Fellows: Resti Rudjito, Alexandra Jurczak.

BRAINVIEW GA 642996 Integrated view on disruptions of early brain development
Principal Investigators: Sven Bölte, Terje Falck-Ytter. Fellows: Lynnea Myers, Monica Siquerios.