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Winning projects 2024 Public Engagement with Research Award
Professors Lucie Cluver, Frederic Dias, Tobias Hauser, Orla Muldoon, Philipp Stockhammer and Mathilde Touvier have been each awarded the 2024 ERC
Public Engagement with Research Awards. The prize recognises European Research Council (ERC) grantees…
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Six ERC grantees win 2024 Public Engagement with Research Award
24 Oct 2024
Professors Lucie Cluver, Frederic Dias, Tobias Hauser, Orla Muldoon, Philipp Stockhammer and Mathilde Touvier have been each awarded the 2024 ERC Public Engagement
with Research Awards. The prize recognises European Research Council (ERC) grantees…
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Scientists have successfully bred corals to improve their heat tolerance
A new study has shown that selective breeding can lead to a modest rise in coral heat tolerance.
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CNIO researchers propose a new treatment for brain metastasis
CNIO researchers have discovered that cancer perverts certain brain cells, the astrocytes, and causes them to produce a protein that
works in favour of the tumour. A drug, silibinin, inhibits this protein, and could be used to help treat brain…
New mutation linked to early-onset Parkinsonism
A team of scientists led by Professor Patrik Verstreken (VIB-KU Leuven) has identified a new genetic mutation that may cause a form of early-onset Parkinsonism.
The mutation, located in a gene called SGIP1, was discovered in an Arab family with a…
Scientists discover ‘Pause Button’ in human development
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
have discovered a potential ‘pause button’ in the earliest stages of human development. Whether…
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Two new members of the ERC Scientific Council appointed
Today, the European Commission has appointed two new members to the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council.
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Focus on frontier research with the ERC
President Maria Leptin’s keynote speech at the conference ‘Focus on Frontier Research with the ERC’ organised by
the Polish Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the ERC in Warsaw, Poland.
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Antarctica’s receding sea ice could impact seabirds’ food supply
Antarctica’s rapidly receding sea ice could have a negative impact on the food supply of seabirds that breed hundreds of miles away from the continent.
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ERC grantee wins Balzan Prize for research on biological mechanisms of ageing
Michael N. Hall from Biozentrum, University of Basel, has won the 2024 Balzan Prize for ‘groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the
molecular mechanisms regulating cell growth.’
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