List of ERC-funded research projects related to coronavirus

Diagnostics and treatments (including vaccines)

Project
Acronymn
 Project
Title
 Principal Investigator Host
Institution
 Country Call
details
 
            
1-SWITCH One-step switchable fluorescent probe assay for direct virus detection. Christelle Nathalie Prinz Lund University SE ERC-2020-PoC 
            
AbSens  Exploring the diagnostics market for simple and fast point-of-care antibody detection Maarten Merkx Eindhoven University of Technology NL ERC-2013-PoC 
PE5
 
            
AllergenDetect Comprehensive allergen detection using synthetic DNA libraries Eran Segal Weizmann Institute IL ERC-2018-PoC 
LS2
 
            
BREATHE Biochemically modified messenger RNA encoding nucleases for in vivo gene correction of severe inherited lung diseases Michael Kormann University of Tuebingen DE ERC-2014-StG 
            
CancerFingerPrints Identification of nano-mechanical fingerprints as a biomarker for cancer treatment prognosis Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos University of Cyprus CY ERC-2018-PoC 
            
CharFL Characterizing the fitness landscape on population and global scales Fyodor Kondrashov Institute of Science and Technology Austria AT ERC-2017-CoG 
            
ChemEpigen The chemical understanding of biomolecular recognition in epigenetics Jasmin Mecinovic University of Southern Denmark DK ERC-2016-StG 
            
CDAC The role of consciousness in adaptive behavior: A combined empirical, computational and robot based approach Paulus Franciscus Maria Joseph Verschure Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia ES ERC-2013-AdG 
SH4
 
            
ComplexNMD NMD Complexes: Eukaryotic mRNA Quality Control Christiane Helene Berger-Schaffitzel European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) DE ERC-StG-2011 
            
CRYOMAT Antifreeze GlycoProtein Mimetic Polymers Matthew Ian Gibson University of Warwick UK ERC-2014-StG
PE5
 
            
DECODE Decoding Context-Dependent Genetic Networks in vivo Michael Boutros German Cancer Research Center DE ERC-2018-SyG 
LS
 
            
DeNovoImmunoDesign Computational Design of Novel Functional Proteins for Immunoengineering Bruno E. Correia Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) CH ERC-2016-StG
LS9
 
            
ECSTATIC Electrostructural Tomography – Towards Multiparametric Imaging of Cardiac Electrical Disorders Hubert Yann Marie Cochet Research and Higher-Education Pole University of Bordeaux FR ERC-2016-StG 
LS7
 
            
ENGRAB Antibody engineering by natural selection and by design Antonio Lanzavecchia Institute for Research in Biomedicine - Bellinzona CH ERC-2019-AdG 
            
FluAttack Validation of a novel anti-viral drug candidate against influenza Caroline Goujon National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) FR ERC-2019-PoC LS6 
            
FUSION Single Molecule Imaging-based design of HIV-1 vaccines Sergi Padilla-Parra King's College London UK ERC-2019-CoG
LS1
 
            
GlycoTarget Exploring the targeted delivery of biopharmaceuticals enabled by glycosylation control Nico Luc Marc Callewaert Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) BE ERC-2013-CoG
LS7
 
            
GUTSY The gut microbiota and its systemic effects on metabolism and atherosclerotic disease Tove Elisabet FALL Uppsala University SE ERC-2018-StG 
            
HEPASPHER Mimicking liver disease and regeneration in vitro for drug development and liver transplantation Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg Karolinska Institute SE ERC-2016-AdG 
LS7
 
            
HIV1ABTHERAPY Antibody-Mediated Therapy of HIV-1 Infection Florian Klein University Hospital Köln DE ERC-2014-StG LS6 
            
ICE_PACK Polymer Materials for Cryogenic Storage and Distribution of Biologics Matthew Ian Gibson University of Warwick UK ERC-2019-CoG 
            
IMMUNOGENE Immunogenetics of Severe Bacterial Disease Susceptibility and Vaccine Responses in Humans) Adrian Hill University of Oxford UK ERC-2011-AdG 
            
Immuno-Predicto Mechanical Biomarkers for Prediction of Cancer Immunotherapy Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos University of Cyprus CY ERC-2019-CoG 
            
KIRANDIS NK receptors and disease John Trowsdale University of Cambridge UK ERC-2015-AdG 
            
LIFT  Liquid Foam Therapy (LIFT) for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Josue Sznitman Technion - Israel Institute of Technology IL ERC-2018-PoC 
            
MOAB  Miniaturised optically accessible bioreactor for drug discovery and biological research Manuela Teresa Raimondi Polytechnic University of Milan IT ERC-2018-PoC 
            
MYCOTHIOLOME Protein S-mycothiolation and real-time redox imaging in Corynebacterium diphtheriae during ROS stress and infection conditions Haike Antelmann Free University of Berlin DE ERC-2013-CoG 
            
NanoPokers Deciphering cell heterogeneity in tumors using arrays of nanowires to controllably poke single cells in longitudinal studies Christelle Nathalie Prinz Lund University SE ERC-2015-CoG 
            
NeuroQure Neuroprotective human antibodies to the flexible tail of the prion protein Adriano Aguzzi University of Zurich CH ERC-2017-PoC 
LS5
 
 
            
NEXT Towards the NEXT generation of bb0nu experimets Juan José Gomez Cadenas Donostia International Physics Center ES ERC-2013-AdG 
            
NICHOID Mechanobiology of nuclear import of transcription factors modeled within a bioengineered stem cell niche Manuela Teresa Raimondi Polytechnic University of Milan IT ERC-2014-CoG 
            
NICHOIDS  Nichoid: nanoengineered three-dimensional substrate for stem cell expansion Manuela Teresa Raimondi Polytechnic University of Milan IT ERC-2016-PoC 
            
noMAGIC Noninvasive Manipulation of Gating in Ion Channels Anna Moroni University of Milan IT ERC-2015-AdG 
LS9
 
            
Novel asthma therapy Biocompatible nanoparticles for T cell targeted siRNA delivery as novel asthma therapy Olivia Merkel University of Munich (LMU) DE ERC-2014-StG LS7 
            
PeptiCHIP PEPTICHIP: Streamlined identification of tumour neoantigens for personalised anti-cancer immunotherapy Vincenzo Cerullo University of Helsinki FI ERC-2019-PoC 
LS7
 
            
PeptiCrad Personalized oncolytic vaccines for cancer immunotherapy Vincenzo Cerullo University of Helsinki FI ERC-2015-COG 
LS7
 
            
PGEN Automated evaluation and correction of generation bias in immune receptor repertoires Aleksandra Maria Walczak National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) FR ERC-2018-PoC PE2 
            
POWER-PATCH Self-Powered Skin Patch for Cystic Fibrosis Diagnosis Neus Sabaté Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ES ERC-2019-PoC 
            
PRION2020 Function and malfunction of the prion protein Adriano Aguzzi University of Zurich CH ERC-2014-AdG 
LS5
 
            
Prions The prion protein in health and disease Adriano Aguzzi University of Zurich CH ERC-2009-AdG
LS5
 
            
RECYPION Resurrecting the Carboxyl Polyether Ionophores Thomas Poulsen Aarhus University DK ERC-2019-CoG 
PE5
 
            
ReDHeaD Repurposing a known drug to treat heart diseases Eldad Tzahor Weizmann Institute IL ERC-2019-PoC 
            
ReEngineeringCancer Re-engineering the tumor microenvironment to alleviate mechanical stresses and improve chemotherapy Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos University of Cyprus CY ERC-2013-StG 
            
REGMAMKID How to regenerate the mammalian kidney Nuria Montserrat Pulido Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia ES ERC-2014-StG 
LS7
 
            
REMATCH Image-based analysis for drug discovery and repurposing Michael Boutros German Cancer Research Center DE ERC-2017-PoC 
LS2
 
            
RespMicroFlows Unravelling respiratory microflows in silico and in vitro: novel paths for targeted pulmonary delivery in infants and young children Josue Sznitman Technion - Israel Institute of Technology IL ERC-2015-StG 
            
RNAvirusPopDivNVax RNA virus population diversity, virulence, attenuation and vaccine development Marco Vignuzzi Pasteur Institute FR ERC-2009-StG LS6 
            
RSVTriVax Development of a trivalent epitope-focused RSV vaccine to boost pre-existing immunity Bruno E. Correia Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) CH ERC-2019-PoC LS9 
            
SocioSmell
 
 Social Chemosignaling as a Factor in Human Behavior in both Health and Disease Noam Sobel Weizmann Institute IL ERC-2014-AdG
SH4
 
            
SQUALAC Preclinical development of squalenic acid and gemcitabine squalene nanomedicine Patrick Couvreur University of Paris FR ERC-2014-PoC 
LS7
 
            
STRATIFY Brain network based stratification of mental illness Gunter Schumann King's College London UK ERC-2015-AdG
LS7
 
            
SUMMIT Stepping Up mRNA Mutanome Immunotherapy Ugur Sahin Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz DE ERC-2017-AdG 
LS7
 
            
SUPERCELL Single-Use paPER-based fuel CELLs Neus Sabaté Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ES ERC-2014-CoG 
            
SwitchProteinSwitch Engineering proteins switches: sensors and regulators for biology and diagnostics Maarten Merkx Eindhoven University of Technology NL ERC-2011-StG PE5 
            
SYNGENE Global Mapping of Synthetic Genetic Interactions in Drosophila Michael Boutros German Cancer Research Center DE ERC-2011-ADG 
LS2
 
            
SYNTISU Remotely-controlled functional synthetic tissues Hagan Bayley University of Oxford UK ERC-2018-AdG
LS9
 
            
TERNANOMED TERPENOYLATION: An original concept for the discovery of new nanomedicines Patrick Couvreur University of Paris FR ERC-2009-AdG 
LS7
 
            
Trep-AB Repurposing clinically approved antibacterial drugs for treponematoses therapy Oriol Mitjà i Villar Fundacion privada de lucha contra el sida ES ERC-2019-StG
LS7
 
            
vAMRes Vaccines as a remedy for antimicrobial resistant bacterial infections Rino Rappuoli Toscana Life Sciences (TLS) Foundation IT ERC-2017-AdG 
LS7
 
            
VIVA Vaccine development against variable pathogens Pia Dosenovic Karolinska Institute SE ERC-2019-StG LS6 
            
VIVAVE Mouse cytomegalovirus based vaccine vectors inducing CTL immunity and protection Luka Cicin-Sain Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research DE ERC-2016-PoC 
LS6
 

 

Environmental impacts

Project
Acronymn
 Project
Title
 Principal Investigator Host
Institution
 Country Call
details
 
            
IASI-FT IASI - Flux and temperature Cathy Clerbaux National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) FR ERC-2016-AdG
PE10
 

Immunity, infection and pathology

Project
Acronymn
 Project
Title
 Principal Investigator Host
Institution
 Country Call
details
 
            
1toStopVax RNA virus attenuation by altering mutational robustness Marco Vignuzzi Pasteur Institute FR ERC-2016-PoC LS6 
            
ANTIViR Molecular mechanisms of interferon-induced antiviral restriction and signalling Caroline Goujon National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) FR ERC-2017-StG LS6 
            
ASTHMACRYSTALCLEAR Role of protein crystallization in type 2 immunity and asthma Bart Lambrecht Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) BE ERC-2017-AdG 
LS6
 
            
BROADimmune Structural, genetic and functional analyses of broadly neutralizing antibodies against human pathogens Antonio Lanzavecchia Institute for Research in Biomedicine - Bellinzona CH ERC-2014-AdG 
LS6
 
            
CircaCHIP Development of Circadian Rhythms on Chip Yaakov Nahmias Hebrew University of Jerusalem IL ERC-2018-PoC 
            
CMIL Crosstalk of Metabolism and Inflammation Andreas Bergthaler Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) AT ERC-2015-StG 
            
CMVAgSTIMULUS Molecular mechanisms of persistent antigenic stimulation in cytomegalovirus infection Luka Cicin-Sain Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research DE ERC-2010-StG LS6 
            
EpigenomeProgramming An experimental and bioinformatic toolbox for functional epigenomics and its application to epigenetically making and breaking a cancer cell Christoph Bock Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) AT ERC-2015-StG 
            
EpiTwin The role of epigenetic factors in the aetiology of common complex diseases using twins Timothy David Spector King's College London UK ERC-2009-AdG 
LS9
 
            
ERStress Role of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in dendritic cells and immune-mediated lung diseases Bart Lambrecht Ghent University BE ERC-2010-StG LS6 
            
ERVE Systematic discovery of functional elements in RNA virus genomes: an Encyclopedia of RNA Virus Elements Andrew Edwin Firth University of Cambridge UK ERC-2014-CoG LS6 
            
GLIOGUIDE Commercialising a novel glioblastoma targeted therapy and a companion diagnostic compound Tambet Teesalu University of Tartu EE ERC-2017-PoC 
            
GliomaDDS Development of tumor penetrating peptides for glioma targeting Tambet Teesalu University of Tartu EE ERC-2011-StG 
            
HERPES Herpesvirus Effectors of RNA synthesis, Processing, Export and Stability Lars Dölken University of Wuerzburg DE ERC-2016-CoG LS6 
            
HIV B Cell Function Understanding HIV-specific B cell function and viral immunogenicity Laura Ellen Fleet Mc Coy University College London UK ERC-2017-StG 
            
HIVINNATE Innate sensing of HIV and immune responses Nicolas Manel Curie Institute FR ERC-2012-StG 
            
HIVINNATE Characterisation and Manipulation of Primate Lentiviral Interactions with Innate Immunity Gregory John Towers University College London UK ERC-2013-AdG 
            
HOMEOEPITH Homeostasis and rupture of the gut epithelium in the presence of commensals and pathogens Philippe Sansonetti Pasteur Institute FR ERC-2008-AdG 
LS6
 
            
HumAntiViruses Human Antibody Responses to Viruses Hugo Denis Misaël Bernard Mouquet Pasteur Institute FR ERC-2013-StG LS6 
            
InflammaTENSION A study of the roles of the immune and inflammatory systems in hypertension. Tomasz Jan Guzik University of Glasgow UK ERC-2016-CoG 
            
IM-ID Defining the intrinsic transcriptional programs and the microenvironmental signals tailoring lung Interstitial Macrophage IDentity Thomas Marichal University of Liege BE ERC-2018-StG 
            
Immune Regulation How Infection History Shapes the Immune System: Pathogen-induced Changes in Regulatory T Cells Nicole Christine Joller University of Zurich CH ERC-2015-StG 
LS6
 
            
IMMUNEexplore New approaches to analyze and exploit the human B and T cell response against viruses Antonio Lanzavecchia Institute for Research in Biomedicine - Bellinzona CH ERC-2009-AdG 
LS6
 
            
INTEGHER Integration of herpesvirus into telomeres: From the mechanism of genome integration and mobilization to therapeutic intervention Benedikt Kaufer Free University of Berlin DE ERC-2015-StG LS6 
            
iViP Impact of virus infection on the host proteome Andreas Pichlmair Max Planck Society DE ERC-2012-StG 
            
Metabinnate Metabolic crosstalk in the regulation of inflammation Luke O'neill Trinity College IE ERC-2018-AdG
LS6
 
            
MicroInnate An exploration into the role of microRNAs in innate immune signaling Luke O'neill Trinity College IE ERC-2010-AdG
LS6
 
            
MInfla-Tilc Generation of therapeutic antibodies targeting type 2 Innate Lymphoid cells in asthma Eric Vivier Aix-Marseille University FR ERC-2019-PoC 
            
MitoVin Mechanism and Consequences of the Interplay between Mitosis and Human Papillomavirus Initial Infection Mario Schelhaas University of Muenster DE ERC-2015-CoG LS6 
            
Myelin Mechanisms of myelin biogenesis and repair Mikael Simons Max Planck Society DE ERC-2017-StG 
            
Myelination Cell biology of myelin wrapping, plasticity and turnover Mikael Simons Technical University of Munich DE ERC-2014-CoG 
            
NanoVirus Deciphering virus-host interactions using correlated confocal-atomic force microscopy David Alsteens University of Louvain BE ERC-2017-StG PE4 
            
New-Chol Development of New therapies against cholangiopathies Ludovic Vallier University Of Cambridge UK ERC-2016-AdG 
            
Niche Fibrosis Identification of regulatory signals from vascular niche in alveolar regeneration and pulmonary fibrosis Joo-Hyeon Lee University of Cambridge UK ERC-2015-StG 
            
OCLD Tracking the Dynamics of Human Metabolism using Spectroscopy-Integrated Liver-on-Chip Microdevices Yaakov Nahmias Hebrew University of Jerusalem IL ERC-2015-CoG 
            
Organoid Dissecting microbiome and immune interactions in human intestinal (cancer) organoids Johannes Carolus Clevers Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences NL ERC-2014-AdG 
            
Profile Infection Unraveling changes in cellular gene expression during viral infection  Noam Stern-Ginossar Pasteur Institute FR ERC-2014-StG LS6 
            
RegulRNA Modulation of RNA-based regulatory processes by viruses Sebastien Jean Pfeffer National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) FR ERC-2014-CoG LS6 
            
SENTINEL HIV-1 sensing and signaling in dendritic cells Teunis Geijtenbeek Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam NL ERC-2014-AdG 
            
STIMUNITY Preclinical validation of a novel immunogenic composition to stimulate innate immunity Nicolas Manel Curie Institute FR ERC-2016-PoC 
            
STRUGGLE Statistical physics of immune-viral co-evolution Aleksandra Maria Walczak National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) FR ERC-2016-CoG PE2 
            
Sugar-Enable Influenza Virus - Sugar Interactions, From Glycan Arrays To Better Vaccines Robert De Vries Utrecht University NL ERC-2018-StG LS6 
            
TECNEC Preclinical concept validation of tumor endothelial cell metabolism for novel anti-angiogenic therapy Peter Carmeliet Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) BE ERC-2016-AdG 
            
ThDEFINE Re(defining) CD4+ T Cell Identities One Cell at a Time Sarah Amalia Polonius-Teichmann Genome Research Limited UK ERC-2014-CoG 
            
ThSWITCH Decoding genetic switches in T helper cell differentiation Sarah Amalia Polonius-Teichmann European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) DE ERC-2010-StG 
            
TILC Targeting Innate Lymphoid Cells Eric Vivier Aix-Marseille University FR ERC-2015-AdG 
            
Viral Host Factors Identification of Host Determinants for Virus Entry using a Haploid Genetic Approach Thijn Reinout Brummelkamp Netherlands Cancer Institute NL ERC-2012-StG 
            
XHaLe XHaLe Danny David Jonigk Hannover Medical School DE ERC-2017-CoG
LS7
 

Medical devices, digital tools, AI

Project
Acronymn
 Project
Title
 Principal Investigator Host
Institution
 Country Call
details
 
            
BROKEX Brokering China’s Extraversion: An Ethnographic Analysis of Transnational Arbitration Heidi Østbø Haugen University of Oslo NO ERC-2012-StG 
            
ChipNano Chip-based nanoscopy: an affordable, multi-modal and high-throughput super-resolution imaging platform Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia University of Tromso NO ERC-2020-PoC 
            
CLOTHILDE CLOTH manIpulation Learning from DEmonstrations Carmen Torras Genis Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ES ERC-2016-AdG
PE7
 
            
DAMOC Diabetes Approach by Multi-Organ-on-a-Chip Javier Ramon Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia ES ERC-2016-StG
PE8
 
            
DDD Diffusive Droplet Dynamics in multicomponent fluid systems Detlef Lohse University of Twente NL ERC-2016-AdG 
            
DEFOG Data science tool for Epidemic FOrecastinG Niel Hens Hasselt University BE ERC-2018-PoC 
LS7
 
            
DYNASNET Dynamics and Structure of Networks Albert-László Barabási - (Laszlo Lovasz) Central European University, Budapest HU ERC-2018-SyG
PE
 
            
DiurnalHealth The circadian clock in day-active species: preserving our health in modern society Johanna H. Meijer Leiden University Medical Center NL ERC-2018-AdG2018 
            
EAR Audio-based Mobile Health Diagnostics Cecilia Mascolo The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of  Cambridge UK ERC-2018-AdG
PE6
 
            
GeCo Data-Driven Genomic Computing Stefano Ceri Polytechnic University of Milan IT ERC-2015-AdG 
Ergo-Lean Rethinking Human Ergonomics in Lean Manufacturing and Service Industry: Towards Adaptive Robots with Anticipatory Behaviors Arash Ajoudani Italian Institute for Technology IT ERC-2019-StG 
PE7
 
            
LUMABS Therapeutic antibody drug monitoring using bioluminescent sensors proteins and a smartphone Maarten Merkx Eindhoven University of Technology NL ERC-2016-PoC LS5 
            
Nano-Chip Affordable photonic-chip based optical nanoscopy Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia University of Tromso NO ERC-2017-PoC
PE7
 
            
Nanoscopy High-speed chip-based nanoscopy to discover real-time sub-cellular dynamics Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia University of Tromso NO ERC-2013-StG
PE7
 
NanoProt-ID Proteome profiling using plasmonic nanopore sensors Amit Meller Technion - Israel Institute of Technology IL ERC-2018-AdG 
            
NANOZ-ONIC Bio-inspired electrONIC NOSE interfacing olfactory electrical biosensors and carbon NANOtubes Christophe John,Willy Moreau National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) FR ERC-2015-CoG
LS7
 
            
OptiPore Wafer-scale, fully automated solid-state nanopore fabrication for biomolecular sensing Amit Meller Technion - Israel Institute of Technology IL ERC-2020-PoC 
            
PSPC Provable Security for Physical Cryptography Krzysztof Pietrzak Institute of Science and Technology Austria AT ERC-2010-StG 
QuStA Quantum State Assembler Selim Chandra Dominik Jochim University of Heidelberg DE ERC-2016-CoG 
            
REM Resonant Electromagnetic Microscopy: Imaging Cells Electronically Mehmet Selim Hanay Bilkent University TR ERC-2017-StG
PE7
 
            
RINEC River networks as ecological corridors for biodiversity, populations and waterborne disease Andrea Rinaldo Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) CH ERC-2008-AdG
PE10
 
            
SenseX Sensory Experiences for Interactive Technologies Marianna Obrist University College London UK ERC-2014-StG 
            
SmellHealth Smell Healthcare Technology to Enable Digital Smell Training Marianna Obrist University College London UK ERC-2020-PoC 
            
SniffControl Sniff-Controlled Devices Noam Sobel Weizmann Institute IL ERC-2011-PoC 
SH4
 
            
TOCNeT Teaching Old Crypto New Tricks Krzysztof Pietrzak Institute of Science and Technology Austria AT ERC-2015-CoG 
            
TRUFLOW TRansfers at tiny scales in tUrbulent multiphase FLOW - TRUFLOW Stéphane Zaleski Sorbonne Université FR ERC-2019-AdG
PE8
 

Social and economic behaviour, wellbeing and crisis management

Project
Acronymn
 Project
Title
 Principal Investigator Host
Institution
 Country Call
details
  
             
AFRIGOS African Governance and Space: Transport Corridors, Border Towns and Port Cities in Transition Paul Christopher Nugent University of Edinburgh UK ERC-2014-AdG  
             
AGNES Active ageing – resilience and external support as modifiers of the disablement outcome Taina Tuulikki Rantanen University of Jyvaskyla FI ERC-2015-AdG
SH3
  
             
ALEX ALgorithms EXposed. Investigating Automated Personalization and Filtering for Research and Activism Stefania Milan University of Amsterdam NL ERC-2018-POC
SH2
  
             
ARTEFACT The Global as Artefact: Understanding Patterns of Global Political History Through an Anthropology of Knowledge -- The Case of Agriculture in Four Global Systems from the Neolithic to the Present Inanna Hamati Ataya University of Cambridge UK ERC-2016-CoG
SH2
  
             
BEHAVE New discrete choice theory for understanding moral decision making behaviour Caspar Gerard Chorus Delft University of Technology NL ERC-2016-CoG SH2  
             
BIOUNCERTAINTY Deep uncertainties in bioethics: genetic research, preventive medicine, reproductive decisions Tomasz Zuradzki Jagiellonian University PL ERC-2018-StG  
             
BLINDSPOT Diversity and Performance: Networks of Cognition in Markets and Teams David Stark University of Warwick UK ERC-2015-AdG
SH2
  
             
CANCERSCREEN Screening for cancer in the post-genomic era: diagnostic innovation and biomedicalisation in comparative perspective Stuart James Hogarth University of Cambridge UK ERC-2016-StG
SH4
  
             
CAPABLE Enhancing Capabilities? Rethinking Work-life Policies and their Impact from a New Perspective Mara Yerkes Utrecht University NL ERC-2016-StG 
SH3
  
             
CHRONO Chronotype, health and family: The role of biology, socio- and natural environment and their interaction Melinda Mills University of Oxford UK ERC-2018-AdG
SH3
  
             
COMPROP Computational Propaganda: Investigating the Impact of Algorithms and Bots on Political Discourse in Europe Philip Howard University of Oxford UK ERC-2014-CoG
SH2
  
             
Connections Oligopoly Markets and Networks Andrea Galeotti London Business School UK ERC-2016-CoG SH1  
             
DATACTIVE Data activism: The politics of big data according to civil society Stefania Milan University of Amsterdam NL ERC-2014-StG
SH2
  
             
DEBUNKER The Problem of European Misperceptions in Politics, Health, and Science:Causes, Consequences, and the Search for Solutions Jason Reifler The University of Exeter UK ERC-2015-CoG SH2  
             
DECIDE The impact of DEmographic Changes on Infectious DisEases transmission and control in middle/low income countries Alessia Melegaro Bocconi University Milan IT ERC-2011-StG SH3        
             
DenCity Density assemblages: intensity and the city in a global urban age Colin Mcfarlane University Of Durham UK ERC-2017-CoG  
             
DEVORHBIOSHIP The Developmental Origins of Health: Biology, Shocks, Investments, and Policies Gabriella Conti University College London UK ERC-2018-CoG 
SH1
  
             
Diadev Investigating the Design and Use of Diagnostic Devices in Global Health Alice Naomi Street University of Edinburgh UK ERC-2016-StG
SH3
  
             
DisCont Discontinuities in Household and Family Formation Francesco Candeloro Billari Bocconi University Milan IT ERC-2015-AdG
SH3
  
             
DUST Data Assimilation for Agent-Based Models: Applications to Civil Emergencies Nicolas Sparrow Malleson University of Leeds UK ERC-2017-StG SH2    
             
ELHO The Age of Hostility: Understanding the Nature, Dynamics, Determinants, and Consequences of Citizens' Electoral Hostility in 27 Democracies Michael Bruter London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) UK ERC-2017-AdG
SH2
  
             
ENERGYA ENERGY use for Adaptation Enrica De Cian University of Venice IT ERC-2017-StG  
             
EQUALIZE Equalizing or disequalizing? Opposing socio-demographic determinants of the spatial distribution of welfare Iñaki Permanyer Ugartemendia Centre for Demographic Studies ES ERC-2014-StG  
             
EUBorderCare Intimate Encounters in EU Borderlands: Migrant Maternity, Sovereignty and the Politics of Care on Europe’s Peripheries Vanessa Elisa Grotti European University Institute IT ERC-2014-StG
SH2
  
             
EUGenDem Gender, party politics and democracy in Europe: A study of European Parliament’s party groups Johanna Kantola Tampere Universities FI ERC-2017-CoG  
             
FARE Fake news and real people - Using big data to understand human behaviour Maria Joana Gonçalves-Sa New University of Lisbon PT ERC-2019-StG 
SH3
  
             
GENDERMACRO
 
 Gender Differences: A Macroeconomic Perspective Michèle Tertilt University of Mannheim DE ERC-2012-StG
SH1
  
             
GEOFIN Western banks in Eastern Europe: New geographies of financialisation Martin Sokol Trinity College IE ERC-2015-CoG
SH3
  
             
GHG The Transformation of Global Health Governance: Competing Worldviews and Crises. Colin John Mcinnes Aberystwyth University UK ERC-2018-AdG
SH2
  
             
GLOBHEALTH From International to Global: Knowledge, Diseases and the Postwar Government of Health Jean-Paul Gaudilliere National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) FR ERC-2013-AdG  
             
GULAGECHOES Gulag Echoes in the “multicultural prison”: historical and geographical influences on the identity and politics of ethnic minority prisoners in the communist successor states of Russia Europe. Judith Pallot University of Helsinki FI ERC-2017-AdG
SH3
  
             
HEALIN Healthy lifespan inequality: Measurement, trends and determinants Iñaki Permanyer Ugartemendia Centre for Demographic Studies ES ERC-2019-CoG  
             
HEY BABY Helping Empower Youth Brought up in Adversity with their Babies and Young children Lucie Dale Cluver University of Oxford UK ERC-2017-CoG
SH3
  
             
HOM
 
 Homo Mimeticus: Theory and Criticism Nidesh Lawtoo University of Leuven BE ERC-2016-StG
SH5
  
             
KNOWLEDGEFLOWS Channels and Consequences of Knowledge Flows from Developed Economies to Central and Eastern Europe Miklós Koren Central European University HU ERC-2012-StG  
             
IllegalPharma Competitive Dynamics in the Informal Economy: The case of Illegal Pharmaceutical Drugs Luis Francisco Diestre Martin Instituto de Empresa SL ES ERC-2016-StG SH1    
             
INZI Investigating Networks of Zoonosis Innovation James Rob Smith University of Edinburgh UK ERC-2011-AdG
SH3
  
             
MACROHETEROGENEITY Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents Paolo Surico London Business School UK ERC-2010-STG SH1  
             
MARKLIM Markets and their limits Jean Tirole Toulouse School of Economics FR ERC-2014-AdG
SH1
  
             
MASSIVE Multinationals, Institutions and Innovation in Europe Riccardo Crescenzi London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) UK ERC-2014-StG
SH3
  
             
MeaningfulMobility Meaningful Mobility: a novel approach to movement within and between places in later life Louise Meijering University of Groningen NL ERC-2018-StG
SH3
  
             
MedPlag The medieval plagues: ecology, transmission modalities and routes of the infections Barbara Bramanti University of Oslo NO ERC-2012-AdG SH6  
             
MiTSoPro Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (post-)crisis Europe Jean-Michel Lafleur University of Liège BE ERC-2015-StG
SH2
  
             
MO-TRAYL Mobility trajectories of young lives: Life chances of transnational youths in Global South and North Valentina Mazzucato Maastricht University NL ERC-2015-CoG  
             
MyMovez Social Network Implementation of Health Campaigns Among Youth Moniek Adrienne Buijzen Stichting Katholieke Universiteit NL ERC-2013-CoG SH2  
             
NeMoSanctl New Models of Sanctity in Italy (1960s-2010s). A Semiotic Analysis of Norms, Causes of Saints, Hagiography, and Narratives Jenny Ponzo University of Turin IT ERC-2017-StG
SH5
  
             
NETWORKS Networks, Markets and Organizations Andrea Galeotti European University Institute IT ERC-2011-StG SH1  
             
NEUROCOOPERATION Trust & Reciprocity: neural and psychological models of social cooperation  Alan Sanfey Stichting Katholieke Universiteit NL ERC-2012-StG SH4  
             
NEW_ABC New issues in the Analysis of Business Cycles Paolo Surico London Business School UK ERC-2017-CoG SH1  
             
PACCASA Preventing Abuse of Children in the Context of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa Lucie Dale Cluver University of Oxford UK ERC-2012-STG SH3  
             
PACT Populism and Conspiracy Theory Michael Butter University of Tuebingen DE ERC-2019-CoG  
             
PharmaSecurity Pharmaceuticals and Security: The Role of Public-Private Collaborations in Strengthening Global Health Security Stefan Elbe University of Sussex UK ERC-2012-StG SH2  
             
POSTDATA Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data Elena Gonzalez-Blanco Garcia National Distance Education University (UNED) ES ERC-2015-StG
SH5
  
             
PRILA Prisons: the Rule of Law, Accountability and Rights Mary Rogan Trinity College IE ERC-2015-StG  
             
ProcessCitizenship Processing Citizenship: Digital registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory and Europe Annalisa Pelizza University of Twente NL ERC-2016-StG
SH3
  
             
PROSOCIAL The neural basis of prosocial development in adolescence Eveline Adriana Maria Crone Universiteit Leiden   NL ERC-2015-CoG SH4    
             
SmartPhoneSmartAging Smartphones, Smart Ageing and mHealth Daniel Miller University College London UK ERC-2016-AdG  
             
SOCIOGENOME Unravelling the genetic influences of reproductive behaviour and gene-environment interaction Melinda Mills University of Oxford UK ERC-2013-CoG
SH3
  
             
SOLID Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics. Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in the EU post 2008 Maurizio Ferrera; Hanspeter Kriesi; Waltraud Schelkle University of Milan IT ERC-2018-SyG SH  
             
TRADENET Firm-to-Firm Trade Networks Isabelle Mejean Polytechnic School - Palaiseau FR ERC-2016-StG 
SH1
  
             
VR3PP Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic Christos Lynteris University of St. Andrews UK ERC-2013-StG SH5    
             
WELL-BEING The dynamics underlying Well-being; Understanding the Exposome-Genome interplay Meike Bartels Free University and Medical Center Amsterdam (VU-VUmc) NL ERC-2017-CoG
SH4
  

Species interactions, evolutionary medicine, epidemiology, public health

Project
Acronymn
 Project
Title
 Principal Investigator Host
Institution
 Country Call
details
 
            
AGELESS Comparative genomics / ‘wildlife’ transcriptomics uncovers the mechanisms of halted ageing in mammals 

Emma Teeling

 

 National University of Ireland IE ERC-2012-StG 
LS2
 
            
AIR-NB Pre-natal exposure to urban AIR pollution and pre- and post-Natal Brain development Jordi Sunyer Institute for Global Health Barcelona ES ERC-2017-AdG
LS7
 
            
ARBODYNAMIC Coupling dynamic population immunity profiles and host behaviours to arboviral spread Henrik Salie The Universtity of Cambridge UK ERC-2018-StG
LS8
 
            
BEEHIVE Bridging the Evolution and Epidemiology of HIV in Europe Christopher Fraser University of Oxford UK ERC-2013-AdG
LS2
 
            
BIG_IDEA Building an Integrated Genetic Infectious Disease Epidemiology Approach Francois Balloux  University College London UK ERC-2010-StG 
            
BiomeRiskFactors Discovering microbiome-based disease risk factors Eran Segal Weizmann Institute IL ERC-2017-AdG
LS2
 
            
CELLULO-EPI Celluloepidemiology: a novel paradigm for modeling T-cell responses on a population level. Benson Ogunjimi University of Antwerp BE ERC-2019-StG
LS7
 
            
CORNEA Controlling evolutionary dynamics of networked autonomous agents Ming Cao Rijksuniversiteit Groningen NL ERC-2017-CoG 
            
DIVERSITY Evolution of Pathogen and Host Diversity Sunetra Gupta University of Oxford UK ERC-2018-AdG
LS8
 
            
EPIDELAY Delay differential models and transmission dynamics of infectious diseases Gergely Röst University of Szeged HU ERC-2010-STG 
PE1
 
            
EpiFor Complexity and predictability of epidemics: toward a computational infrastructure for epidemic forecasts Vittoria Colizza Institute for Scientific Interchange - Turin (ISI Foundation) IT ERC-2007-StG LS7 
            
EvoGenMed Evolutionary genomics: new perspectives and novel medical applications Laurence Hurst University of Bath UK ERC-2014-AdG
LS7
 
            
HIV ECLIPSE HIV-1 acquisition and the future of prevention strategies: deciphering the eclipse phase through modelling and phylogenetics Katherine Atkins University of Edinburgh UK ERC-2017-StG 
            
LocalAdaptation Detecting Local Adaptation with Climate-Informed Spatial Genetic Models Andrea Manica University of Cambridge UK ERC-2014-CoG 
            
MircoWars The Evolution of Bacterial Warfare Kevin Richard Foster The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford UK ERC-2017-AdG
LS8
 
            
NEUCOS Neutrinos and the origin of the cosmic rays Walter Winter DESY (Helmholtz Research Center) DE ERC-2014-CoG
PE2
 
            
PATHPHYLODYN Pathogen Phylodynamics: Unifying Evolution, Infection and Immunity Oliver Pybus University of Oxford UK ERC-2013-CoG LS8   
            
Ph.D. Phase map of dynamic, adaptive colloidal crystals far from equilibrium Serim Kayacan İlday Bilkent University TR ERC-2019-StG
PE3
 
            
PhyPD New phylogenetic methods for inferring complex population dynamics Tanja Stadler Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) CH ERC-2013-StG LS8     
            
ReservoirDOCs The evolutionary dynamics of pathogen emergence and establishment: from Reservoir Detection to Outbreak Control Philippe Lemey University of Leuven BE ERC-2016-CoG LS8           
            
RNAVirFitness The dark side of evolution: the deleterious mutational landscape of RNA viruses Adi Stern Tel Aviv University IL ERC-2019-StG
LS8
 
            
SOURCE Self Organization in Competition and Diversity Kim Sneppen University of Copenhagen DK ERC-2016-AdG 
            
SUMOFLU Interplay between influenza viruses and host SUMO pathways Benjamin Hale University of Zurich CH ERC-2013-StG 
LS6
 
            
TB-ACCELERAT Integrating genomics, epidemiology and evolution to accelerate tuberculosis eradication Iñaki Comas Espadas Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ES ERC-2014-StG 
            
T-GRAND-SLAM
 
 Translating the Global Refined Analysis of Newly transcribed RNA and Decay rates by SLAM-seq Lars Dölken University of Wuerzburg DE ERC-2018-PoC LS6 
            
TransMID Translational and Transdisciplinary research in Modeling Infectious Diseases Niel Hens Hasselt University  BE ERC-2015-CoG LS7 
            
UNIFLUVAC A novel universal influenza vaccine targeting epitopes of limited variability Sunetra Gupta University of Oxford UK ERC-2018-PoC
LS8
 
            
VIRMUT Variability in the mutation rate of RNA viruses Rafael Sanjuán Verdeguer University of Valencia ES ERC-2011-StG
LS8
 
            
Vis-a-Vis Collective Infectious Units and the Social Evolution of Viruses Rafael Sanjuan Verdeguer University of Valencia ES ERC-2016-CoG LS8   

Structural and molecular mechanisms

Project
Acronymn
 Project
Title
 Principal Investigator Host
Institution
 Country Call
details
 
            
ANTIVIRNA Structural and mechanistic studies of RNA-guided and RNA-targeting antiviral defense pathways Martin Jinek University of Zurich CH ERC-2013-StG
LS1
 
            
ASTRA ASsembly and phase Transitions of Ribonucleoprotein Aggregates in neurons: from physiology to pathology. Irene Bozzoni Sapienza University of Rome IT ERC-2019-SyG 
            
BIZEB Bio-Imaging of Zoonotic and Emerging Bunyaviruses Juha Huiskonen University of Helsinki FI ERC-2014-CoG LS1 
            
CARBOCENTRE Activity-Based Profiling of Glycoprocessing Enzymes for Human Health and a Sustainable Society Herman Overkleeft Universiteit Leiden NL ERC-2020-SyG 
            
Celcelfus Cell-Cell fusion in fertilization and developmental biology: a structural biology approach Félix A. Rey Pasteur Institute FR ERC-2013-AdG LS1 
            
CHROMATRANS Structural biology of chromatin transcription Patrick Cramer Max Planck Society DE ERC-2019-ADG 
            
COPMAT Full-scale COmputational design of Porous mesoscale MATerials Sauro Succi Italian Institute of Technology IT ERC-2016-AdG
PE8
 
            
COSIMO Covalent Single-Molecule Chemistry of the Cell Hagan Bayley University of Oxford UK ERC-2011-AdG LS9 
            
DissectCMV Creating a comprehensive functional map of the viral and host factors in HCMV infection Noam Stern-Ginossar Weizmann Institute IL ERC-2019-CoG 
            
EPiR The Chemical Basis of RNA Epigenetics Thomas Carell University of Munich (LMU) DE ERC-2016-AdG PE5 
            
FUNCOPLAN Functions of plasticity in adult-born neurons Matthew Stuart Grubb King's College London UK ERC-2016-CoG 
LS5
 
            
GeneRegulation Deciphering the code of gene regulation using massively parallel assays of designed sequence libraries Eran Segal Weizmann Institute IL ERC-2013-CoG 
LS2
 
            
LLPS-NMR Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of liquid-liquid phase separation Markus Zweckstetter  German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) - Helmholtz Center DE ERC-2017-AdG 
            
MacDoPro Macro domain proteins in the cellular stress response and links to human disease Ivan Ahel University of Oxford UK ERC-2011-StG
LS1
 
            
MANGO The determinants of cross-seeding of protein aggregation: a Multiple TANGO Joost Schymkowitz Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) BE ERC-2014-CoG 
            
MEMBRANEFUSION Structure and mechanism of viral and cellular membrane fusion machineries John A. G. Briggs United Kingdom Research and Innovation UK ERC-2014-CoG 
            
mitoUPR Cellular modulation by the mitochondrial unfolded protein response Christian Münch University of Frankfurt DE ERC-2018-StG LS3 
            
NERCOMP Structural studies of Nucleotide Excision Repair complexes Marcin Nowotny PInternational Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (PAS) PL ERC-2011-StG LS1 
            
OdorSpace Predicting odor perception from odorant structure and neural activity in the olfactory system Noam Sobel Weizmann Institute IL ERC-2007-StG
LS5
 
 
            
PalmERa Roles of Palmitoylation networks in ER architecture and functions Francoise Gisou Van Der Goot Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) CH ERC-2013-AdG LS3 
            
PhosFunc Dissecting the functional importance of eukaryotic protein phosphorylation Pedro Daniel Coelho Dos Santos Beltrao European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) DE ERC-201-StG
LS2
 
            
RECGLYCANMR           
            
RIBOMYLOME The Role of Non-coding RNA in Protein Networks and Neurodegenerative Diseases Gian Gaetano Tartaglia Centre for Genomic Regulation ES ERC-2012-StG 
            
SPOCkS MS Sampling Protein cOmplex Conformational Space with native top down Mass Spectrometry Charlotte Ütrecht Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology  DE ERC-2017-StG LS1 
            
TRANSREGULON Structural biology of mammalian transcription regulation Patrick Cramer Max Planck Society DE ERC-2015-AdG 
            
UBICODE Decoding the ubiquitin code Huib Ovaa Leiden University Medical Center NL ERC-2011-StG
LS1
 
            
V-RNA Two facets of viral RNA: mechanistic studies of transcription and replication by influenza-like viral polymerases and detection by the innate immune system Stephen Anthony Cusack European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) DE ERC-2012-AdG LS1 
            
WATCH Well-Aging and the Tanycytic Control of Health Vincent Prevot National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) FR ERC-2018-SyG LS