Erin Schuman receives an ERC Advanced Grant to study the fundamentals of synaptic plasticity

Prof. Erin Schuman, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, is one of the seven Max Planck Directors who receives this prestigious grant. These grants, for exceptional research leaders, are a special program of the ERC designed to fund ambitious, pioneering and unconventional science. In the latest round (2011) the European Commission received 2009 applications but made only 266 awards, adding up to 590 million Euro.