ERC Proof of Concept 2015

Funded projects

• Wide Spectral Range Photonic Glucometer

  AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €149,972

• Spatially Multiplexed Spectrophotometry

  AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €149,922

• Tracing tropical timber

  WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY · NL · €148,387

• HYPHEN: Hybrid Photonic Engines for Massive Cloud Connectivity

  KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE · DE · €149,875

• Magic angle coil spinning NMR on living voxels - LiVoX

  KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE · DE · €150,000

• Peptide arrays as a high throughput pre-screening tool

  KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE · DE · €147,247

• All-in-One Cell Screening Chip: Device for Affordable High-Throughput Cell Screenings

  KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE · DE · €150,000

• Culture Aware Music Technologies

  UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA · ES · €150,000

• Product identification using sequence-controlled oligomers

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €149,784

• Development of a new plant variety for the Asian market

  IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · UK · €148,307

• Anti-reflection coatings from solution-processable, high-refractive index inorganic/organic hybrid materials

  IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · UK · €146,929

• Robotic manipulator with visuo-haptic sensing

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €150,000

• Versatile optomechANical GRaphene Device for bio-tissue engineering

  CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT · €150,000

• An innovative tool for non-invasive evaluation of myocardial stiffness

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €149,750

• Development of pregnenolone derivatives as allosteric inhibitors of CB1 cannabinoid receptors for the treatment of schizophrenia and psychotic syndromes

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €150,000

• Flow Machines

  SORBONNE UNIVERSITE · FR · €145,500

• Optimal Person-Machine Sensorimotor Coupler for Application to Micro-Manufacturing

  SORBONNE UNIVERSITE · FR · €150,000

• Fast Data Acquisition and Servo Technologies

  AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES

• commercialisation TridimensiOnal Nanoporous ALumIna Templates

  AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €149,953

• Optical Coherence Tomography for Intraocular Lenses

  AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €150,000

• Personal perception for predicting product choice

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €135,776

• Discovery of Bcl-3 inhibitors as Potential Chemopreventive Agent for skin cancer

  LUNDS UNIVERSITET · SE · €150,000

• Platform for Heterogeneous Integration of NEMS on ICs

  KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €150,000

• Silencing miR-199b to attenuate the progression of heart failure.

  UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · NL · €150,000

• Antibody-free method for Counting All Circulating TUmour cellS while maintaining them alive and intact

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE · IT · €149,875

• Real-Time Monitoring System for Water Quality

  UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · CY · €150,000

• AcTafactors: Tumor Necrosis Factor-based immuno-cytokines with superior therapeutic indexes

  VIB VZW · BE · €149,320

• Mid Infrared SpectrometerS by an Innovative Optical iNterferometer

  POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €149,625

• The EDUCAGE: A Behavioral Platform for Naturalistic Learning

  THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €150,000

• Electric-field driven magnetic domain wall motion for memory technologies

  AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI · €149,778

• Virtual Environments for Social Training

  UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · CY

• Development of the Gas-Solid Vortex-Rotor Reactor

  UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €149,900

• ASSESSMENT AND INITIAL STEPS FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF A FAST SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR CASTING MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS

  CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE METODES NUMERICS EN ENGINYERIA · ES · €149,963

• Exploiting vulnerabilities in protein synthesis for cancer diagnosis and therapy

  STICHTING HET NEDERLANDS KANKER INSTITUUT-ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK ZIEKENHUIS · NL · €149,500

• Industrial implementation of adaptive computational methods for turbulent flow and fluid-structure interaction

  KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €146,897

• Hybrid Membranes Incorporating Metal-Organic Frameworks

  THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · UK

• Drug eDesign: Building the next generation of software solutions for drug design

  BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION · ES · €148,875

• High-throughput drug screening for identifying personalized cancer treatments tailored to the particular mutations of the patient’s tumor

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

• Highly Conductive Graphene Ink

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €149,949

• Hand pose and gesture analysis for next generation device interaction

  TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €150,000

• Launching Acoustic Force Spectroscopy - unlocking the potential of biomolecular bungee jumping

  STICHTING VU · NL · €150,000

• spim4You: customised solutions for light sheet microscopes and imaging data analysis.

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €148,613

• Add-on module for optical coherence tomography with en-face view option

  UNIVERSITY OF KENT · UK · €149,917

• A Hot-Spot Bio-Barcode Strategy for Prognostic Biomarkers In Colorectal Cancer

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €150,000

• Structure-based subwavelength imaging

  TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €150,000

• Biofouling control in nanofiltration and reverse osmosis processes using a smart polymer approach

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE

• ToothPic, a large-scale camera identification system based on compressed fingerprints

  POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT · €149,526

• Optical Ultrasound Imaging for Real-time Guidance of Intracardiac Procedures

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €149,624

• Blue Combustion for the Storage of Green Electrical Power

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN · DE · €150,000

• Reconfigurable smart lens for adaptive imaging

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES · ES · €150,000

• New chemical detection methods based on NMR and nanoparticles

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT · €150,000

• A potent Micro-RNA therapeutic for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

  THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €149,800

• INTERconnects enhanced by colloidal qDOT based optical amplifiers

  UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €145,000

• A new instrument for mapping the ultrafast photo-conductivity of materials for optoelectronics

  STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN · NL · €148,750

• A new architecture for visual display technology based upon recent advances in our understanding of visual physiology.

  THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · UK · €149,250

• Automated Microhandling System for X-ray Crystallography

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €148,885

• Commercialization of Wear3D - Wearable and 3D Display Technology

  KOC UNIVERSITY · TR · €150,000

• A Nano-electrode chip for high-resolution/high-throughput cellular assays in cultured neurons including synaptic tranmission

  STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · NL · €149,475

• miRNA-activated Scaffold Technologies for Cartilage Regeneration

  ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND · IE · €149,450

• Compliant Actuation Robotic Platform for Flexible Endoscopy

  UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE · UK · €150,000

• Developing new therapeutics for Friedreich ataxia

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA · IT · €150,000

• KidsSurgicalPlan: An Internet enterprise for sketch-based cardiovascular pre-surgical planning

  KOC UNIVERSITY · TR · €150,000

• INTRASTEM: High Efficiency Delivery of Proteins, Nucleic Acids and Particles to Human Cells

  THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · UK · €147,489

• Medically Licensed Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

  UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE · €149,101

• Commercialization of a novel tool for designing personalized nOvel MelAnoma Therapies

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

• A Streptavidin Microarray Platform for Capturing of Circulating Tumor Cells from the Blood of Cancer Patients

  UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HAMBURG-EPPENDORF · DE · €149,750

• PETRA - Photonic Environment moniToring Risk Assessment

  CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI · IT · €150,000

• Membrane fusion mediated dermal allergy immunotherapy

  UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · NL · €150,000

• ULTrafast Imaging sensor for Medical Applications

  ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE · CH · €150,000

• BreAking the Link betweeN myo10 and CancEr

  TURUN YLIOPISTO · FI · €150,000

• New breast cancer therapies based on available p38 MAPK inhibitors

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA) · ES · €149,995

• Epigenetic Profiling of Chemotherapy Efficacy

  INSTITUT CURIE · FR · €150,000

• Treatment of EGFR over-expressing cancers by targeted non-viral delivery of PolyIC

  THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €150,000

• A gene expression test in blood for breast cancer

  UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET · NO · €143,933

• Ultrafast Spatiotemporally-Encoding: A Superior Approach to Cancer Diagnosis by Non-Invasive Diffusion-Weighted MRI

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

• Classical Levitonics: transposing quantum levitons to classical waves for single side band wireless data transmissions

  COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR · €149,404

• SolarPredict: An advanced predictive tool and service of the Solar 11-yr Activity Cycle

  COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR · €149,913

• Integrated quantum correlation counter

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €150,000

• Flow Visualization Based Pressure

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €148,750

• Ink-Jet printed supercapacitors based on 2D nanomaterials.

  THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE · €149,774

• Preclinical development of squalenic acid and gemcitabine squalene nanomedicine

  UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY · FR · €150,000

• Medical Phase Contrast X-ray Imaging with Laser Plasma Accelerator

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €149,851

• Photon Cross Correlation Spectroscopy

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €149,984

• DNA rEpair impaired Mice with accElerated Neurodegeneration as Tool to Improve Alzheimer therapeutics

  ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL · €150,000

• Integral Membrane Proteins – an Approach to Rank Target Stability

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €145,501

• An Automatic Microfluidic Device Assembly System

  BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY · IL · €150,000

• A commercial device for mercury isotope monitoring (MIMO)

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €150,000

• Zinc finger gene therapy in the brain for treating Huntington's disease

  IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · UK · €149,995

• Microfluidic platform for intra-operative tumor immunohistochemistry

  ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €150,000

• A mathematical platform for Abdominal Aortic Aneurism risk assessment and surgical planning

  ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €147,400

• Self-Enforcing Electronic Voting For Commercial Applications

  UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE · UK · €149,860

• CoPIRL: Compact High Power Picosecond Infrared Laser for Scar Free Surgery and Bio-Diagnostics.

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €78,125

• Development of a New Wavelength Scanning Interferometer for Embedded Metrology

  UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD · UK · €149,662

• Digital Bridge: Optical Character Recognition for Early Printed Books in Latin

  UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM · UK · €148,178

• Blocking SUMO conjugation as drug discovery strategy.

  CENTRE DE RECERCA EN AGRIGENOMICA CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB · ES · €150,000

• Array-tagged single cell gene expression by parallel linear RNA amplification and sequencing

  TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €150,000

• Novel enhancers of functional recovery after stroke

  RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG · DE · €147,968

• Ratiometric FRET Based Nanosensors for Trypsin Related Human Recessive Diseases

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA · ES · €150,000

• Ultra-sensitive Thermal Nanoscale Microscope

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

• Precise and non-GMO Engineering of Nutritional Factors for Breeding High Quality Crops

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

• Hypermethylated DNA detection using NanoGaps

  UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · NL

• Explore the potentialities of biostealth coatings for tissue engineering and reconstructive medicine

  UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · NL · €150,000

• Forecasting and Monitoring Economic Indicators

  UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · CY · €150,000

• An Antibody Microarray for Histone Modifications

  THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €150,000

• Development of a more effective and safer therapeutic antibody for cancer treatment with a dual mechanism of action to eliminate CSCs and reactivate the tumour’s immune system.

  FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIO ONCOLOGICA DE VALL-HEBRON (VHIO) · ES · €150,000

• Exploitation of Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Biological Ionsensing – Proof Of Concept

  ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS · FR · €149,673

• Automated framework for rapid simulations of high-detail brain models

  ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL · €149,937

• A new process for the manufacture of methanol from waste glycerol

  CARDIFF UNIVERSITY · UK · €149,994

• DDRNA-based cancer therapy targeted telomeres

  IFOM-ISTITUTO FONDAZIONE DI ONCOLOGIA MOLECOLARE ETS · IT · €149,425

• Minimal invasive x-ray source enabled by a novel vacuum packaging technique

  KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €150,000

• Harvesting the Sun

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

• Development of a ncRNA DNA Methylation Kit for the Diagnosis of Cancer of Unknown Primary

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIO BIOMEDICA DE BELLVITGE · ES · €149,278

• ASESSMENT AND INITIAL STEPS FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF A SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR THE STUDY AND MITIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF FLOODS ON CONSTRUCTIONS AND LANDSCAPE

  CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE METODES NUMERICS EN ENGINYERIA · ES · €149,856

• On a free open source extreme scale finite element software

  CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE METODES NUMERICS EN ENGINYERIA · ES · €149,250

• Highly-lubricated soft contact lenses

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

• Delivery of PULmonary Therapeutics through TARgetted Delivery using Phononics

  UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW · UK · €149,791

• Low Temperature Ceramics Applications

  OULUN YLIOPISTO · FI · €150,000

• CHIRALSENSE : Sensing Chirality using cavity-enhanced polarimetry: advances in sensitivity and time-resolution

  IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS · EL · €150,000

• Imaging with Photon Counting: Reduced costs, increased dynamic range

  STICHTING VU · NL · €147,500

• Big Data for Catalysis

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA · ES · €149,875

• Validation of a conceptually new treatment for glioblastoma multiforme with an IP protected small molecule

  KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET · SE · €149,693

• Novel solutions for assessing child cognitive function

  TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI

• COLOStage : A new prognosis test for the prediction of metastasis in Colorectal Cancer and Hepatocellular Carcinoma

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA) · ES · €150,000

• Supplying lung adenocarcinoma cell lines to the cancer research community.

  PANEPISTIMIO PATRON · EL · €149,588

• Rapid and Inexpensive Diagnosis of Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia Using Glycan Arrays Containing Synthetic Glycosaminoglycans

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €147,094

• Morphogenetically active blood vessels: Proof-of-Concept

  UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN DER JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAET MAINZ · DE · €149,962

• Digital readout of protein detection via super rolling circle amplification of DNA tags

  UPPSALA UNIVERSITET · SE · €149,375

• A Non-Invasive Test for Guiding Follow–up of Patients with CT-Detected Lung Nodules

  TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €150,000

• Terahertz wireless information systems and technologies

  DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €146,400

• Exploring the Potential for Therapeutic Lineage Reprogramming of Diabetes

  MAX DELBRUECK CENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN IN DER HELMHOLTZ-GEMEINSCHAFT (MDC) · DE · €150,000

• Advanced signal processing of time-domain data in mass spectrometry to leverage life sciences

  SPECTROSWISS SARL · CH · €150,000

• Spatial super-resolution of electrophysiological measurements

  TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €150,000

• Practical Approximation Algorithms - Proof of Concept

  UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI · PL · €150,000

• Prognosis and Diagnosis of Protein Misfolding Diseases by Seeded Aggregation in Microspheres

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €149,972

• Simultaneous three dimensional multiphoton microscopy without mechanical depth scanning

  TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €150,000

• ExoData: a commercially supported space telescope

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €139,454

• Developing Novel and Optimal Additive Solutions for Red Blood Cells

  HASKOLI ISLANDS · IS · €150,000

• Voice Emotion detection by Appraisal Inference

  AUDEERING GMBH · DE

• A new reconstructing technique using tissue engineering methods to create an engineered autologous vascularized tissue flap

  TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €147,500

• Mobile 3D Modeling

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €150,000

• Sequence-Enabled Single cEll Identification device

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

• A Solar-Powered Hydrolyzer

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA · ES · €150,000