ERC Consolidator grant for Dr. Ana Cvejic
Among the winners of the European Research Council’s latest round of Consolidator Grants are Dr. Ana Cvejic who has been awarded funding for her project Aneuploidy and Its Impact on Blood Development: Context Matters.
About the project
Blood stem cells need to both perpetuate themselves (self-renew) and differentiate into all mature blood cells to maintain blood formation throughout life. However, the mechanisms that control differentiation of haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) and patterns of mutation acquisition in these cells during early human development are not well understood. This study will provide novel insights into the impact of niche on blood formation in health and disease and will examine processes of clonal selection of HSPCs. A better understanding of early events in human development, in both health and disease, will open new routes for diagnosing, monitoring and treating disease.
Winning an ERC Consolidator Grant means that I have freedom to focus on exploring new and challenging areas of research using cutting-edge experimental and computational approaches. It will further enhance my career while maintaining the momentum of the research I started five years ago with my ERC Starting Grant, says Ana Cvejic
ERC consolidator grants
The funding will support mid-career researchers and will help them consolidate their teams and conduct pioneering research on topics and with methods of their choosing. Part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, this new round of grants will create an estimated 1,900 jobs for postdoctoral fellows, PhD students and other staff at 189 host institutions.
The future grantees will carry out their projects at universities and research centres across 24 EU Member States and associated countries, with Germany (61 grants), UK (41) and France (29) as top locations. Scientists and scholars from around the world are eligible to apply to ERC calls. This time, the winners represent 42 nationalities, with Germans (58 researchers), Italians (30) and French (26) leading the ranking in absolute numbers. Five researchers from the US and one researcher from New Zealand intend to move back to Europe with their grants.
In this latest call, 2,652 applicants submitted proposals and 12% of them will receive the funding. Male and female applicants were equally successful in winning the grants.