
The FEBS Booster Fund supports newly independent researchers in the FEBS area by awarding them a one-off grant of €25,000 to spend on small equipment, consumables, or research-based travel, to develop a novel research project.
The researchers selected by the FEBS Excellence Awards and Fellowships Committee to receive a FEBS Booster Fund grant following the inaugural call for this scheme in 2024 have recently been announced on the FEBS website. We congratulate the recipients on their selection and wish them success in their next research steps!
FEBS Booster Fund recipients 2024:
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Nuno Dinis Alves ICVS, University of Minho, Portugal Research area: Serotoninergic circuitries in the healthy and in the 'stressed' brain |
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Marten Exterkate Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany Research area: Membrane biogenesis and cellular division |
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Marta Kolonko-Adamska Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland Research area: Protein structure determination and the structure–function relationship |
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Sara Silva Pereira Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Oeiras, Portugal Research area: Interaction of parasites with blood vessels |
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Rita Petracca Utrecht University, the Netherlands Research area: Protein crotonylation in cancer: regulation, impact, therapeutic potential |
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Zoi Piperigkou University of Patras, Greece Research area: Exosome-mediated cell–cell communication and matrix dynamics in 2D/3D cell platforms |
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Mirel Adrian Popa ICBP-NS, Bucharest, Romania Research area: Cardiovascular regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies |
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Urszula Zarzecka University of Gdansk, Poland Research area: Proteostasis in the human pathogen Helicobacter pylori |
The call for applications for the FEBS Booster Fund in 2025 is expected to open 1 March 2025. The closing date will be 1 May 2025.
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