ERC Grants
The European Research Council (ERC) promotes pioneering research and awards grants worth millions to outstanding scientists for ground-breaking projects.
ERC Advanced Grants
The ERC Advanced Grants (up to 3.5 million euros over a maximum of five years) are aimed at established scientists from all disciplines whose highly innovative research goes significantly beyond the current state of research and opens up new areas of research.
The following researchers from the LMU Faculty of Medicine have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to date:
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Erika von Mutius (2023) ***
APROSUS - Microbiome-derived asthma and allergy protective substances for prevention - Prof. Dr. Magdalena Götz (2020) ***
NeuroCentro - Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis- from centrosome to engineering migration - Prof. Dr. Steffen Massberg (2018)
Immunothrombosis-Cross-talk between platelets and immunity - implications for host homeostasis and defense - Prof. Dr. Ludger Klein (2016)
TOLERANCE FOOTPRINT - Clonal deletion versus clonal diversion: Footprints of self-tolerance in the T-cell repertoire - Prof. Dr. Martin Reincke (2015)
PAPA - Pathophysiology of primary aldosteronism - Prof. Dr. Christian Weber (2015)
PROVASC - Cell-specific vascular protection by CXCL12/CXCR4 - Prof. Dr. Magdalena Götz (2013) ***
ChroNeuroRepair - Chromatin states in neurogenesis - from understanding chromatin loops to eliciting neurogenesis for repair - Prof. Dr. Berthold Koletzko (2012)
META-GROWTH - Metabolic regulation of growth and body composition - Prof. Dr. Christian Haass (2012)
AMYLOID - Identification and modulation of pathogenic amyloid beta-peptide species - Prof. Dr. Peter Becker (2011)
ACCOMPLI - Assembly and maintenance of a co-regulated chromosomal compartment - Prof. Dr. Christoph Klein (2011) **
EXPLORE - Exploring novel pathways governing immunity and leukemia by studying the genetic basis of human myeloid cell defects - from genetics to gene therapy - Prof. Dr. Dr. Erika von Mutius (2009)
HERA - Host-environment interactions in the protection from asthma and allergies - Prof. Dr. Christian Weber (2009) **
ATHEROPROTECT - Structure-function analysis of the chemokine interactome for therapeutic targeting and imaging in atherosclerosis
ERC Consolidator Grants
The ERC Consolidator Grants (up to three million euros over a maximum of five years) are aimed at outstanding young researchers from all disciplines whose own independent working group is in the consolidation phase.
The following researchers from the LMU Faculty of Medicine have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to date:
- Prof. Dr. Heidi Stöckl (2023)
IMPROVE_LIFE - Investigate maternal and paternal risk factors for violence during pregnancy: lasting impact for everyone - Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kobold (2023)
CATACLIS - Cancer tailored next generation cellular therapies - Prof. Dr. Silvia Cappello (2021)**
ExoDevo - Extracellular vesicles-mediated cross-talk during human brain development and disease - Prof. Dr. Nicolai Siegel (2021)
switchDecoding - Decoding the path to cellular variation within pathogen populations - Prof. Dr. Ali Ertürk (2020) ***
CALVARIA - Translational aspects of the discovery of skull marrow-meninges connections - Prof. Dr. Barbara Stecher (2019)
EvoGutHealth - Evolution of gut-associated microbial communities and its functional relevance in health and disease - Prof. Dr. Irmela Jeremias (2015) ***
LeukaemiaTargeted - Selecting genetic lesions with essential function for patients' leukaemia in vivo as targets for precision medicine
ERC Starting Grants
The ERC Starting Grants (up to 2.5 million euros over a maximum of five years) are aimed at outstanding young researchers from all disciplines who are at the beginning of an independent scientific career in Europe and would like to set up their own working group or have already done so and would like to establish one in the longer term.
The following researchers from the LMU Faculty of Medicine have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to date:
- Dr. Rodrigo Villaseñor (2023)
EpiCblood - Towards early cancer detection and tumor classification using epigenomic biomarkers in blood - Prof. Dr. Florian Gärtner (2022)
MEKanics - Cell mechanics of megakaryocytes in 3D tissues - deciphering mechanobiology of platelet formation - Dr. Sarah Kim-Hellmuth (2022)
ImmGenDC - Dissecting the context-specificity of genetic immune regulation in plasmacytoid dendritic cells - Prof. Dr. Lena Burbulla (2020)
oxDOPAMINE - Unraveling the mystery of preferential degeneration of midbrain neurons in neurodegerative diseases - Dr. Konstantin Stark (2020)
T-MEMORE - Thrombotic memory-linking a break in tolerance to platelets to rethrombosis - Prof. Dr. Alexander Bartelt (2019)
Proteofit - Adapting protein fate for muscle function and fitness - Prof. Dr. Arthur Liesz (2018)
RecoverInFlame - T-cell-driven inflammatory mechanisms promote recovery after acute brain injury - Prof. Dr. Inga Katharina Koerte (2018)
Neuroprecise - Precision medicine in traumatic brain injury using individual neurosteroid response - Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kobold (2017)
ARMOR-T - Armoring multifunctional T-cells for cancer therapy - Prof. Dr. Cristina García-Cáceres (2017) ***
AstroNeuroCrosstalk - Astrocyte-neuronal crosstalk in obesity and diabetes - Prof. Dr. Barbara Schraml (2016)
Baby DCs - Age-dependent regulation of dendritic cell development and function - Dr. Christoph Scheiermann (2014)
CIRCODE - Cell-type specific mechanisms regulating rhythms in leukocyte homing - Prof. Dr. Martin Kerschensteiner (2012)
NEMESIS - Neuroprotection in multiple sclerosis: from molecular imaging to screenable models - Prof. Dr. Vigo Heissmeyer (2011) ***
RC3H1/2-SPECIFICITY - Specificity of Rc3h1/2 proteins in post-transcriptional control of immunity and autoimmune disease
* Contract signed with LMU as host institution, but ERC grantee has since left LMU
** ERC grantee was not yet at LMU at the time of approval
*** Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health as host institution, but ERC grantee is also a member of the LMU Medical Faculty