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Evaluation results – ERC Proof of Concept 2022 1 call

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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 2022 Proof of Concept 1 call (call deadline 14 October 2021) were published. In total 166 ERC grant holders received a Proof of Concept grant including five researchers based at Flemish host institutions:

  • Rob Ameloot, KU Leuven, “MOFFET - Metal-Organic Framework Field-Effect Transistor Arrays for Chemical Sensing” which builts on research supported by the 2016 ERC Starting grant ”VAPORE
  • Wim Bogaerts, Universiteit Gent, “LIQUORICE - LIQuid-crystal enabled Universal Optical Reconfigurable Integrated Circuit Engineering” which builts on research funded through the 2016 ERC Consolidator grant “PhotonicSWARM
  • Wim De Malsche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, “EVO-LC - Column with AC-EOF Induced Vortices for HPLC” which builts on work done in the 2015 ERC Starting grant “EVODIS
  • Bart Kuyken, Universiteit Gent, “COMb - High Speed Communication Links Based on Heterogeneous Chips” which builts on research funded by the 2017 ERC Starting grant “ELECTRIC
  • Massimiliano Mazzone, Vlaams Instituut Biotechnologie, “BasicFit - Targeting bicarbonate transport as a “first-in-class” therapeutic strategy to promote CD8+ T cell fitness and enhance cancer immunotherapy” which builts on research funded by the 2017 ERC Consolidator grant “ImmunoFit

Background on the evaluation results, projects and teams can be found in the following press releases: ERCEA press release, VUB press release, Universiteit Gent press release

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