European Month : Zoom on the European projects leaded by the Institut Pasteur

As every year, Europe Day was celebrated on May 9th. For this occasion, the Grants Office (GO) team wants to highlight the successes of the Institut Pasteur in European grants in 2022.

⇒ Key figures for European grants awarded to the Institut Pasteur for 2022

♦ 4 collaborative projects in partnership

♦1 project in coordination: DURABLE - Delivering a Unified Research Alliance of Biomedical and public health Laboratories against Epidemics. This project funded by the EU4Health program aims to support the actions of the new European Pandemic Preparedness Authority (HERA). Coordinator: Jean-Claude Manuguerra, 18 partners, EC contribution of €25 million.

♦The Institut Pasteur is the 3rd best French establishment in terms of success rate in Horizon Europe in 2022

♦10 ERC laureates :

• Aleksandra Decwkowska- BrainGate - Illuminating body-brain communication channels at the choroid plexus and their impact on brain physiology. Starting Grant

• Sarah Merkling- ITSaMATCH - Mosquito-virus matchmaking Elucidating the biological basis of compatibility between viruses and mosquitoes. Starting Grant (with CNRS)

• Jakob RUESS , BridgingScales - From single cells to microbial consortia: bridging the gaps between synthetic circuit design and emerging dynamics of heterogeneous populations. Starting Grant (with INRIA)

• Massimiliano Bonomi- bAIes - Integrative, AI-aided Inference of Protein Structure and Dynamics. Consolidator Grant (with CNRS)

• Rayan Chikhi – IndexThePlanet - Planetary-scale indexing of sequencing data. Consolidator Grant

• Romain Levayer – PrApEDoc - Predicting Apoptosis Engagement Downstream of Caspases in vivo. Consolidator Grant

• Liliana Mancio Silva – DEXES - Mechanisms of dormancy, activation and sexual conversion in pre-erythrocytic malaria parasites. Consolidator Grant (with INSERM)

• Laure Bally-Cuif- PEPS – PErPetuating stemness: From single-cell analysis to mechanistic spatio-temporal models of neural stem cell dynamics. Synergy Grant (with CNRS, 4 PIs involved)

• Caroline Demangel – DRIMMS – Lipid droplets as innate immunity hubs. Synergy Grant (3 PIs involved)

• Gerald Spaeth – DECOLeishRN - Decoding epistatic genome/RNome interactions in eukaryotic fitness gain using Leishmania parasites as a unique model system. Synergy Grant (3 PIs involved)

♦ 7 post-doctoral fellowships from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program (MSCA).

⇒ Nota bene :
If you wish to attract foreign post-docs within the framework of the MSCA 2023 call (deadline September 13, 2023. Submit your ad now on the Euraxess/hosting Offers or MSCA-NET platform.

⇒ Save the Date

The European Commission is organizing an information meeting on the 2024 health cluster calls on June 1, 2023.

Registration link here

If you are looking for partners for the 2024 health cluster collaborative calls, you can participate in a virtual networking meeting organized by the European Commission on June 2, 2023,

Registration link here

⇒ Support from the Grants Office

The GO accompanies you in setting up your European projects and brings you the expertise to increase your chances of success (in particular, on support for writing grants and on ethics).

For more information

The Grants Office at Institut Pasteur hosts a National Contact Point on the Health Cluster Horizon Europe (Vania Rosas vrosas@pasteur.fr , double affiliation: IP and MESRI). A national contact point provides guidance, practical information and assistance on all aspects of participation in Horizon Europe.

For more information you can look at the following page where you can find all the relevant information regarding the new framework program Horizon Europe

Reminder: Find the results of the EU H2020 framework program and the subsidies for the year 2021 (BIP of May 20, 2022).