NEWS - ERC - Results Proof of Concept 2020 call 3rd cut-off

Principal Investigators with an ERC grant that is running or ended less than 12 months before 1 January of the call year are eligible to participate in an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. The results of the 2020 Proof of Concept call (3rd cut-off 17 September 2020) were published. In total 55 ERC grant holders received a Proof of Concept grant including two researchers based at Flemish host institutions:

Kevin Braeckmans, Universiteit Gent, “INTRACYTE – Exploring the market potential of photoporation as the next generation of intracellular delivery technology for the R&D and cell therapy markets” which builds on the 2014 ERC Consolidator grant “Nanobubble”
Lieven Eeckhout, Universiteit Gent, “FSC - Forward Slice Core” which build on the 2016 ERC Advanced grant “Load Slice Core”

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FWO press release – Onderzoekers vertellen: Kevin Braeckmans

Ghent University press release – 'Two Ghent University researchers have been awarded Proof of Concept grants’

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