2 ERC Starting Grants for Arnaud Vanden Broeck and Liselot Dewachter

2 ERC Starting Grants for Arnaud Vanden Broeck and Liselot Dewachter

Published on 05 September 2024

2 ERC Starting Grants for Arnaud Vanden Broeck and Liselot Dewachter

Out of 3,474 applicants, the ERC has selected 494 researchers for this year's Starting Grants. Of these, 22 are from Belgian universities, 4 from universities in the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and 2 are permanent researchers at the FNRS.


The Starting Grant, worth a total of almost €780 million, supports cutting-edge research in a wide range of fields, from life sciences and physics to social sciences and the humanities. It will help early-career researchers launch their own projects, build their teams and pursue their most promising ideas.


Congratulations to


? Arnaud Vanden Broeck, Research Associate FNRS (newly appointed) and Promoter of an FNRS Mandat d'impulsion scientifique-Ulysse at the ULiège Protein Engineering Centre (CIP).
➡ Funded project : TranSplice - A molecular basis of kinetoplastids SL trans-splicing.


? Liselot Dewachter, Research Associate FNRS at the Institut de Duve, UCLouvain
➡ Funded project: REalCYCLE - Reassessing Bacterial Cell Cycle Regulation: Revealing Novel Regulatory Principles in Realistic Environments


The ERC press release


ERC_StG2024