Awarded Grants, Fellowships and Prizes

Grants

Horizon Europe: ERC Advanced Grant
CAMOUFLAGE - Mechanisms of Camouflage in Cuttlefish
Principal Investigator: Gilles Laurent

Duration: 01.08.2024-31.07.2029 more
Horizon Europe: ERC Starting Grant
CoreInstincts - Brainstem circuits supporting adaptive instinctive behaviours
Principal Investigator: Vanessa Stempel
Duration: 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2029 more
Horizon Europe: ERC Advanced Grant
DiverseSynapse
Revealing the Landscape of Synaptic Diversity by Cell type- and Synapse-specific Proteomics and Transcriptomics
Principal Investigator: Erin Schuman
Duration: 1.8.2022 – 31.7.2027 more
Horizon Europe: ERC Starting Grant
SoftChirp
Neural circuits for social communication

Principal Investigator: Alison Barker
Duration: 01.07.2022 - 30.06.2027 more
DFG FOR 2848 

DFG FOR 2848 

Nanoscale Architecture and Heterogeneity of the Mitochondrial Inner Membrane
Principal Investigator: Lea Dietrich
Duration: 01.11.2024 - 31.07.2027
 
DFG FOR 5768

DFG FOR 5768

Neural basis of vocal communication
Project P5: Neural circuits for antiphonal calling in the naked mole-rat
Principal Investigator: Alison Barker
Duration: 1.1.2026 - 31.12.2027
DFG Reinhart Kosellek Project
Functional Architecture of CNS-Endothelial Interfaces
Principal Investigator: Amparo Acker-Palmer
Duration: 2026-2031 more

Behrens-Weise Stiftung

From Single-Cells to Behavior: Characterizing Circuits for Social Communication
Principal Investigator: Alison Barker
Duration: 01.07.2026 - 30.06.2029

Fellowships

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship

Brain states during hibernation in the lizard Pogona vitticeps
Principal Investigator: Sebastian Ola Andersson
01.06.2024 - 31.05.2026

Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship

RNA and RNA-Binding Proteins: Local Control in Neurons
Principal Investigator: Mykola Roiuk
Duration: 01.01.2026 - 31.12.2027
 
Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship

Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship

Neural mechanisms of communication signaling in cephalopods
Principal Investigator: Margot Elmaleh
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026

Prizes and Awards

2025 Karl Spencer Lashley Award
The American Philosophical Society honors Gilles Laurent in recognition of his “pioneering studies of information encoding and computation in populations of neurons in the central nervous system.” more
2026 Nakasone-Award

2026 Nakasone-Award

July 09, 2025
The neuroscientist is honoured for her discovery on neural synapse function and change during formation of memories more
Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2025
Awardee: Gilles Laurent more
Körber European Science Prize
Awardee: Erin Schuman more
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Preis 2024
Awardee: Moritz Helmstaedter more
Lundbeck Foundation - The Brain Prize 2023
Awardee: Erin Schuman more
ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize 2020
Awardee: Erin Schuman more
Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2020
Awardee: Erin Schuman more
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