Awarded Grants, Fellowships and Prizes

Grants

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
Horizon 2020: ERC Advanced Grant
SleepCirc
Claustrum, Brainstem and Sleep: Mechanisms and Function
Principal Investigator:
 Gilles Laurent


Duration: 01.07.2019 – 30.06.2024 more
DFG Reinhart Kosellek Project
Functional Architecture of CNS-Endothelial Interfaces
Principal Investigator: Amparo Acker-Palmer
Duration: 2026-2031 more
DFG NeuroNex

DFG NeuroNex

Neue Methoden zur Bestimmung synaptischer Gewichtung und deren Rolle in funktionalen Netzwerken
Principal Investigator:
Moritz Helmstaedter
Duration: : 1.1.2024 – 31.12.2025
Principal Investigator: Erin M. Schuman
Duration: : 1.1.2024 – 31.12.2025

Behrens-Weise Stiftung

Synaptic and neuronal network mechanisms of maladaptive behavioural plasticity after traumatic stress
Principal Investigator: Vanessa Stempel
Duration:
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025

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

Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship

Neural mechanisms of communication signaling in cephalopods
Principal Investigator: Margot Elmaleh
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026
EMBO Long-Term Fellowship

EMBO Long-Term Fellowship

Revisiting translational regulation at neural synapses
Principal Investigator: Xiong Zhuqing
Duration: 01.01.2024 - 31.05.2025
EMBO Long-Term Fellowship

EMBO Long-Term Fellowship

Brain states during hibernation in Pogonga Vitticeps
Principal Investigator: Sebastian Ola Andersson
Duration: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2025
EMBO Long-Term Fellowship

EMBO Long-Term Fellowship

Understanding synaptic activity-states though their transcriptomic signatures
Principal Investigator: Eva Kaulich
Duration:
01.10.2023 – 30.09.2025
 
Joachim Herz Stiftung - Add-On Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Sciences

Joachim Herz Stiftung - Add-On Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Sciences

Title:
Principal Investigator: Alena Lemazina
Duration:

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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