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:
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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
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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.