Schering Stiftung

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Boost Your Research

Young Investigator Fund for Innovative Research Ideas

Boost Your Research

Young Investigator Fund for Innovative Research Ideas


The Schering Stiftung and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation offer start-up grants to fund promising research ideas by young scientists. Support is provided for projects in the fields of biochemical, neuroscience or immunological basic research with biomedical implications. The program is explicitly aimed at highly motivated young investigators who want to become independent researchers and pursue their own research ideas.

The Schering Stiftung and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation makes possible research projects of young scientists that cannot be realized with existing funds and resources and for which application for other funding is not possible because of a lack of preliminary research. The start-up grant thus lays the foundations for a subsequent grant application.

Schering Stiftung and Fritz Thyssen Foundation earmarked a total of EUR 120,000 for this grant program. Applicants can apply for up to EUR 60,000 per project.

The project ran from 2017 to 2021.

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Funded Projects

Drenka Trivanovic

Scholar

In her current research, the young scientist aims to investigate the significance of the inflammatory haematoma environment for the behaviour of bone marrow stem cells.

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Andrea Imle

Scholar

The vision of the young scientist is to train T cells to migrate through dense tissues to help improve the success rate of immunotherapies against cancer.

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Matteo Villa

Scholar

With his current investigations, the young scientist would like to support the development of therapies that aim to modulate the function of the T cells in a tissue-specific way.

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Sebastian Balbach

Scholar

The young scientist attempts to solve a long-standing but urgent question with novel methods: Are sarcomas, aggressive cancers of muscle, bone, or joints prevalent in children, driven by malignant stem cells?

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Simone Mader

Scholar

The young scientist wants to detect brain-reactive B cells in patients with Multiple Sclerosis and related diseases through usage of novel methodological approaches.

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Laleh Haghverdi

Scholar

The young scientist prepares a framework for more accurate cell type recognition based on geometric deep learning.

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Konstantin Sparrer

Scholar

The young scientist aims to identify human-derived naturally occurring peptides that boost anti-viral autophagy and that will be the basis for future development of effective, broadly active anti-viral drugs.

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Ayelén González Montoro

Scholar

The young scientist aims to understand the mechanisms by which very small specialized compartments inside a cell can be formed and how the cell can coordinate its processes and spaces.

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Cordelia Imig

Scholar

These findings will set the basis for understanding of the hormone signalling mechanisms that regulate pivotal body functions and have been implicated in the pathogenesis of multiple disorders including diabetes mellitus

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Sofia Iris Bibli

Scholar

The results of the proposed work is expected to to yield scientific breakthroughs relevant to both physiology and pathophysiology and H2S based pharmacotherapy.

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Partners 

This Project is realized in cooperation with the following partners:

Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

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