FEBS Booster Fund Recipients 2024

7 November 2024

The FEBS Booster Fund supports newly independent researchers in the FEBS area by awarding them a one-off grant of €25,000 for 1 year to spend on small equipment, consumables, or research-based travel, to develop a novel research project.

FEBS is pleased to announce here 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. We congratulate the recipients on their selection and wish them success in their next research steps.

FEBS Booster Fund recipients 2024:

	Nuno Dinis Alves ICVS, University of Minho, Portugal Research area: Serotoninergic circuitries in the healthy and in the ‘stressed’ brain
	Marten Exterkate Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany Research area: Membrane biogenesis and cellular division
	Marta Kolonko-Adamska Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland Research area: Protein structure determination and the structure–function relationship
	Sara Silva Pereira Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Oeiras, Portugal Research area: Interaction of parasites with blood vessels
	Rita Petracca Utrecht University, the Netherlands Research area: Protein crotonylation in cancer: regulation, impact, therapeutic potential
	Zoi Piperigkou University of Patras, Greece Research area: Exosome-mediated cell–cell communication and matrix dynamics in 2D/3D cell platforms
	Mirel Adrian Popa ICBP-NS, Bucharest, Romania Research area: Cardiovascular regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies
	Urszula Zarzecka University of Gdansk, Poland Research area: Proteostasis in the human pathogen Helicobacter pylori