ֱ̽ of Cambridge - Leonie Luginbuehl /taxonomy/people/leonie-luginbuehl en Early career researchers win major European funding /research/news/early-career-researchers-win-major-european-funding <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/plant-roots-interacting-with-arbuscular-mycorrhizal-fungi-credit-luginbuehl-lab.jpg?itok=MfvJK7-6" alt="Plant roots interacting with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Image: Luginbuehl lab" title="Plant roots interacting with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Image: Luginbuehl lab, Credit: Luginbuehl lab" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Of 3,500 proposals reviewed by the ERC, only 14% were selected for funding – Cambridge has the highest number of grants of any UK institution.</p> <p>ERC Starting Grants – totalling nearly €780 million – support cutting-edge research in a wide range of fields, from life sciences and physics to social sciences and humanities.</p> <p> ֱ̽awards help researchers at the beginning of their careers to launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their most promising ideas. Starting Grants amount to €1.5 million per grant for a period of five years but additional funds can be made available.</p> <p>In total, the grants are estimated to create 3,160 jobs for postdoctoral fellows, PhD students and other staff at host institutions.</p> <p>Cambridge’s recipients work in a wide range of fields including plant sciences, mathematics and medicine. They are among 494 laureates who will be leading projects at universities and research centres in 24 EU Member States and associated countries. This year, the UK has received grants for 50 projects, Germany 98, France 49, and the Netherlands 51.</p> <h3><strong>Cambridge’s grant recipients for 2024 are:</strong></h3> <p><strong>Adrian Baez-Ortega</strong> (Dept. of Veterinary Medicine, Wellcome Sanger Institute) for Exploring the mechanisms of long-term tumour evolution and genomic instability in marine transmissible cancers</p> <p><strong>Claudia Bonfio</strong> (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) for Lipid Diversity at the Onset of Life</p> <p><strong>Tom Gur</strong> (Dept. of Computer Science and Technology) for Sublinear Quantum Computation</p> <p><strong>Leonie Luginbuehl </strong>(Dept. of Plant Sciences) for Harnessing mechanisms for plant carbon delivery to symbiotic soil fungi for sustainable food production</p> <p><strong>Julian Sahasrabudhe</strong> (Dept. of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) for High Dimensional Probability and Combinatorics</p> <p><strong>Richard Timms</strong> (Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease) for Deciphering the regulatory logic of the ubiquitin system</p> <p><strong>Hannah Übler</strong> (Dept. of Physics) for Active galactic nuclei and Population III stars in early galaxies</p> <p><strong>Julian Willis</strong> (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry) for Studying viral protein-primed DNA replication to develop new gene editing technologies</p> <p><strong>Federica Gigante</strong> (Faculty of History) for Unveiling Networks: Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580– 1700) – Grant hosted by the ֱ̽ of Oxford</p> <p> </p> <p>Professor Sir John Aston FRS, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the ֱ̽ of Cambridge, said:</p> <p>“Many congratulations to the recipients of these awards which reflect the innovation and the vision of these outstanding investigators. We are fortunate to have many exceptional young researchers across a wide range of disciplines here in Cambridge and awards such as these highlight some of the amazing research taking place across the university. I wish this year’s recipients all the very best as they begin their new programmes and can’t wait to see the outcomes of their work.”</p> <p>Iliana Ivanova, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said:</p> <p>“ ֱ̽European Commission is proud to support the curiosity and passion of our early-career talent under our Horizon Europe programme. ֱ̽new ERC Starting Grants winners aim to deepen our understanding of the world. Their creativity is vital to finding solutions to some of the most pressing societal challenges. In this call, I am happy to see one of the highest shares of female grantees to date, a trend that I hope will continue. Congratulations to all!”</p> <p>President of the European Research Council, Prof. Maria Leptin, said:</p> <p>“Empowering researchers early on in their careers is at the heart of the mission of the ERC. I am particularly pleased to welcome UK researchers back to the ERC. They have been sorely missed over the past years. With fifty grants awarded to researchers based in the UK, this influx is good for the research community overall.”</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Nine Cambridge researchers are among the latest recipients of highly competitive and prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants.</p> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.luginbuehllab.com/" target="_blank">Luginbuehl lab</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Plant roots interacting with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. 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