University of Helsinki research projects funded by the European Research Council (ERC)

The European Research Council (ERC) provides highly competitive funding which currently supports 22 research teams led by top researchers at the University of Helsinki. Of them, 10 have received an ERC Advanced Grant and 16, an ERC Starting Grant.

The purpose of ERC Advanced Grants is to allow exceptional, established research leaders to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains. The maximum amount of funding granted to a single project is EUR three million for a period of up to five years.

The following University of Helsinki researchers have received an ERC Advanced Grant

• Aaltonen Lauri: Next Generation Genetics of Cancer Predisposition
• Alitalo Kari: New biological functions and therapeutic potential of vascular endothelial growth factors
• Castrén Eero: Induction of juvenile-like plasticity in the adult brain Antidepressants alone are not enough
• de Vos Willem (shared funding): Exploitation of Our Intestinal Microbiota
• Hanski Ilkka: Ecological, molecular, and evolutionary spatial dynamics
• Helariutta Yrjö: The role of symplastic communication during root development
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• Kulmala Markku: Atmospheric nucleation: from molecular to global scale
• Kupiainen Antti: Mathematical Physics of Out-of-Equilibrium Systems
• Peltomäki Päivi: Epigenome and Cancer Susceptibility
• Päivärinta Lassi: Inverse Problems
• Stråth Bo & Koskenniemi Martti: Between Restoration and Revolution, National Constitutions and Global Law: an Alternative View on the European Century 1815-1914
• Muinonen Karri: Scattering and absorption of electromagnetic waves in particulate media
• Wartiovaara Anu: MetaboMIT: Metabolic consequences of mitochondrial dysfunction
  

The purpose of ERC Starting Grants is to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish a proper research team and to begin conducting independent research in Europe. The maximum amount of funding granted to a single project is EUR two million for a period of up to five years.

The following University of Helsinki researchers have received an ERC Starting Grant

• Corander Jukka: SmartBayes Intelligent Stochastic Computation Methods for Complex Statistical Model Learning
• Hemminki Akseli: Oncolytic adenoviruses expressing monoclonal antibody trastuzumab for treatment of Her-2+ breast and ovarian cancer
• Hietakangas Ville: Transcriptional networks in glucose sensing
• Hovatta Iiris: A cross-species neurogenomics approach to anxiety
• Hytönen Tuomas: Analytic-probabilistic methods for borderline singular integrals
• Laine Anna-Liisa: Linking Pathogen Evolution and Epidemiology
• Lehtonen Sanna: Insulin resistance and diabetic nephropathy - development of novel in vivo models for drug discovery
• Lohi Hannes: Canine models of human psychiatric disorders: identifying novel anxiety genes with the help of man's best friend
• Moilanen Atte: Global Environmental Decision Analysis
• Niemi Mikko: Transporter pharmacogenomics – the contribution of transporters to variability in drug response
• Ovaskainen Otso: Spatial ecology: bringing mathematical theory and data together
• Vartiainen Maria: Actin as the Master Organizer of Nuclear Structure and Function
• Vehkamäki Hanna: Role of Molecular Clusters in Atmospheric Particle Formation