FWF Funding awarded to Vienna BioCenter Researchers

Further FWF Grants have been awarded to Vienna BioCenter Researchers. Thomas Böttcher (Faculty of Chemistry | CeMESS) and his team at the University of Vienna secured FWF funding under “International – Multilateral Initiatives, and Sophia Fericou, PostDoc at the University of Vienna’s Division of Microbial Ecology (DOME | CeMESS) was awarded a ESPRIT Fellowship.

International – Multilateral Initiatives

Thomas Böttcher, CeMESS

Thomas Böttcher (Faculty of Chemistry | CeMESS) and his team at the University of Vienna on securing FWF funding under “International – Multilateral Initiatives,” in concert with the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the new interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1756, “Chemical and Biological Principles of Cellular Trigger Responses”. This international collaboration unites 18 principal investigators across chemistry and biology, with project A02 led by Thomas Böttcher.

CRC 1756 aims to elucidate how cells perceive changes in their environment, how they process different triggers to generate appropriate cellular responses, how these responses ultimately alter cell physiology, and how such processes can be influenced or even controlled at the molecular level using chemical tools.

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ESPRIT Fellowship

Sophia Ferchiou, CeMESS

Sophia Ferchiou, Postdoctoral Researcher at DOME, has been awarded an ESPRIT Fellowship by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

In her project “MarIn-SEA” (Marine Invertebrate Symbioses: Epigenetic Analysis), Sophia Ferchiou studies how lucinid clams develop and sustain close partnerships with chemosynthetic bacteria that help them survive in challenging coastal habitats.

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