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MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022

116 projects were funded under the MSCA Doctoral Networks in 2022, across 20 countries.

Most-funded institutions

  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique5
  • KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN4
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS3
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN3
  • Centre for BioSystems Genomics2
  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS2
  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET2
  • Luxembourg Institute of Health2

Funded projects

  • Andy Chevigné

    The Extended N-Terminal Domain Confers Atypical Chemokine Receptor Properties to CXCR3-B

    Luxembourg Institute of Health · LU

  • Jan W. Eriksson

    Effects of gastric bypass surgery on brain connectivity responses to hypoglycemia

    Uppsala University · SE

  • Muriel Umbhauer

    Hnf1b renal expression directed by a distal enhancer responsive to Pax8

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

  • Shanmugapriya Survarachakan

    Deep learning for image-based liver analysis — A comprehensive review focusing on malignant lesions

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology · NO

  • Karoliina Tapani

    Validating an SVM-based neonatal seizure detection algorithm for generalizability, non-inferiority and clinical efficacy

    University of Helsinki · FI

  • Martina Hedenius

    Visual Global Processing and Subsequent Verbal and Non-Verbal Development: An EEG Study of Infants at Elevated versus Low Likelihood for Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Uppsala University · SE

  • Carme Rovira

    Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Human Milk Oligosaccharides. The Molecular Mechanism of <i>Bifidobacterium Bifidum</i> Lacto-<i>N</i>-biosidase

    Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · ES

  • Placido Mursia

    Enforcing Statistical Orthogonality in Massive MIMO Systems via Covariance Shaping

    EURECOM · FR

  • Marilena Karavyraki

    Evidence of a role for interleukin-6 in anoikis resistance in oral squamous cell carcinoma

    Trinity College Dublin · IE

  • Tia E. Keyes

    Multimodal Investigation into the Interaction of Quinacrine with Microcavity-Supported Lipid Bilayers

    Dublin City University · IE

  • Riccardo Scarfone

    Numerical modelling of the application of capillary barrier systems for prevention of rainfall-induced slope instability

    Geotechnical Consulting Group (United Kingdom) · GB

  • Andy Chevigné

    The Extended N-Terminal Domain Confers Atypical Chemokine Receptor Properties to CXCR3-B

    Luxembourg Institute of Health · LU

  • Beatriz Pozo Arcos

    How User Manuals Support the Diagnosis of Common Faults in Household Appliances: an Analysis of 150 Manuals

    Delft University of Technology · NL

  • Karen Vanhoorelbeke

    Improvement of recombinant ADAMTS13 production through a more optimal signal peptide or an N‐terminal fusion protein

    KU Leuven · BE

  • Sahar Ahangari

    A deep learning-based whole-body solution for PET/MRI attenuation correction

    Rigshospitalet · DK

  • Audrey Chansard

    Imaging the Response to DNA Damage in Heterochromatin Domains

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

  • Ravinder Dahiya

    Ultra‐High Gauge Factor Strain Sensor with Wide‐Range Stretchability

    University of Glasgow · GB

  • Andrea Carvelli

    A multifunctional locus controls motor neuron differentiation through short and long noncoding RNAs

    Italian Institute of Technology · IT

  • Chen Chen

    On the Deployment of Small Cells in 3D HetNets With Multi-Antenna Base Stations

    University of Liverpool · GB

  • Jaikishan Khatri

    Recognizing Personality Traits Using Consumer Behavior Patterns in a Virtual Retail Store

    Universitat Politècnica de València · ES

  • Justyna Dąbrowska

    Digital transformation, for better or worse: a critical multi‐level research agenda

    RMIT University · AU

  • Greener, more sustainable platforms for high-value recombinant protein production

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL

  • Accelerating the Deployment of Offshore wind using Dc technology

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • European Doctoral Network for Safe and Sustainable by Design Electromagnetic Shielding Material

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €2,633,238

  • Quantum resistant communications: Advance Learning in applied PQC Training

    NVIDIA DENMARK APS · DK

  • Circular and Connected Pavements for Carbon-Neutral and Digital Roads

    UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA · ES · €2,599,884

  • Quality Control of the Mitochondrial Gene Expression System in Health and Disease

    MIEDZYNARODOWY INSTYTUT MECHANIZMOW I MASZYN MOLEKULARNYCH POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK · PL

  • Gene Therapy of Rare Diseases

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • TRAining the next generation of iCE researcherS

    POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €3,990,096

  • Training for a Hydrogen Economy based Renewable Energy Society in the Anthropocene

    UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI · ES

  • Enabling Virtualized Wireless and Optical Coexistence for 5G and Beyond

    INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES · PT

  • Multi-sensory solutions for increasing human-building resilience in face of climate change

    UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM AACHEN · DE

  • New Generation of Electrical Machines Enabled by Additive Manufacturing

    GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER · DE

  • Cost-reduction of EV fast-charging station to enable large-scale electrification of mobility

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

  • Distributed Ledger Technology: Innovation & Ecosystem Management

    STICHTING VU · NL

  • Acoustic and Thermal Retrofit of Office Building Stock in EU

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Cell-free synthetic biology for combinatorial biosensor design

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT · DE · €2,628,648

  • Next-generation membrane technologies for sustainable exploitation of seawater brine resources: transition towards a circular blue industry

    UNIVERSITA DELLA CALABRIA · IT

  • Globalisation, Europe and Multilateralism : Democratic Institutions, the rise of Alternative MOdels and mounting Normative Dissensus

    UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · BE

  • NAD+ International Scientist-training

    STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · NL

  • SOFT actuators for Wearables, Exoskeletons, and Augmenting Robotics

    LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET · SE

  • Center for Glacial Biome Doctoral Network

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Allergenicity Prediction Toolbox for novel foods

    UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT · NL

  • Co-designing a Home with Dementia

    LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS · BE

  • MIcroelectronics RELiability driven by Artificial Intelligence

    POLYMER COMPETENCE CENTER LEOBEN GMBH · AT

  • Foundations foR Offshore wiNd TurbInES

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL

  • STOP SPREAD BAD BUGS: novel antimicrobial approaches to combat multidrug resistance in bacteria

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL

  • A comprehensive CAD system based on radiologic- and pathologic-image biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of breast cancer relapse

    UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI · ES

  • Matter-Wave Interferometers

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRIESTE · IT · €2,662,308

  • - addressing the challenges of high-performance solution-processed OLEDs using sustainable materials

    UNIVERSITAT BAYREUTH · DE

  • Concerted European action on Sustainable Applications of REFractories

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

  • Innovating New Space Frontiers: Harmonised Federated and Fractionated Systems Unlocking Fresh Perspectives for Satellite Services

    UNIVERSITAET DER BUNDESWEHR MUENCHEN · DE

  • Porous Networks for Gas Sensing

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,162,456

  • DYnamic control in hybrid plasmonic NAnopores: road to next generation multiplexed single MOlecule detection

    FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA · IT

  • Towards Competitive, Reliable, Safe and Sustainable Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plants

    UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID · ES

  • MicroWave Photonic Technologies for Communications and Sensing Applications in Space

    UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO · ES · €4,067,548

  • Identification and development of novel colorectal cancer biomarkers via state-of-the-art liquid biopsy approaches

    FUNDACION PUBLICA GALEGA INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACION SANITARIA DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA · ES

  • Eyes for Information, Communication, and Understanding

    UNIVERSITAET ULM · DE

  • Metal-containing Radical Enzymes

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT · DE · €2,406,624

  • Active reduction of noise transmitted into and from enclosures through encapsulated structures

    POLITECHNIKA SLASKA · PL · €2,522,160

  • CLOUD Doctoral Network

    JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN · DE

  • From seed to seedling: Epigenetic mechanisms of priming to design strategies for crop improvement

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES

  • Studying the Earth's surface with seismic methods

    GFZ HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR GEOFORSCHUNG · DE

  • European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective

    CEU GMBH · AT

  • Protease‐guided tumor targeting tools to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment.

    UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE

  • Training the next-generation of European GLIOblastoma (translational) researchers, to RESOLVE precision targeting of the brain tumour microenvironment

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND · IE

  • Quantum-Safe-Internet

    UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO · ES

  • Discovering Collagen I degradation process in chronic diseases with fibrotic component

    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR

  • Integrated High-speed Power Systems for Industry and Mobile Applications

    LAPPEENRANNAN-LAHDEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO LUT · FI

  • Integrated Cross-Sectoral Solutions to Micro- and Nanoplastic Pollution in Soil and Groundwater Ecosystems

    UNIVERSITE LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD · FR · €2,489,724

  • European Spectroscopy Laboratory to model the materials of the future

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

  • Parents and Technology in Cyberbullying: Intervention and Prevention for Future Experts.

    DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY · IE

  • Manfred Wuhrer

    The BNT162b2 mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine induces transient afucosylated IgG1 in naive but not in antigen-experienced vaccinees

    Leiden University Medical Center · NL

  • Diabetes Lower Extremity Complications Research and Training Network in Foot Ulcer and Amputation Prevention

    STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · NL

  • Abdulrahman Widaa

    Tunable Coaxial Bandpass Filters Based on Inset Resonators

    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel · DE

  • Sebastian van Strien

    Asymptotically holomorphic methods for infinitely renormalizable unimodal maps

    Imperial College London · GB

  • Katarzyna Mnich

    Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Regulated Chaperones as a Serum Biomarker Panel for Parkinson’s Disease

    Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway · IE

  • Jacob L. Binsley

    Numerical investigation of flexible Purcell-like integrated microfluidic pumps

    University of Exeter · GB

  • Alireza Bagheri

    A 16 × 16 45° Slant-Polarized Gapwaveguide Phased Array With 65-dBm EIRP at 28 GHz

    University of Twente · NL

  • Myrta Gkaintatzi-Masouti

    Simulations of non-image-forming effects of light in building design: A literature review

    Eindhoven University of Technology · NL

  • Sander Peters

    Technology-driven approaches for meiosis research in tomato and wild relatives

    Centre for BioSystems Genomics · NL

  • Sander Peters

    Technology-driven approaches for meiosis research in tomato and wild relatives

    Centre for BioSystems Genomics · NL

  • Hikari A. I. Yoshihara

    Hyperpolarized (1-<sup>13</sup>C)Alaninamide Is a Multifunctional In Vivo Sensor of Aminopeptidase N Activity, pH, and CO<sub>2</sub>

    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CH

  • Sabina Manz

    A review of user needs to drive the development of lower limb prostheses

    Ottobock (Germany) · DE

  • Cellular Homeostasis ANd AGing in Connective TissuE Disorders

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA · IT

  • Sabina Manz

    A review of user needs to drive the development of lower limb prostheses

    Ottobock (Germany) · DE

  • Jean‐Pierre Levraud

    Using zebrafish to understand reciprocal interactions between the nervous and immune systems and the microbial world

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

  • Laurence Charles

    Covalent Attachment and Detachment by Reactive DESI of Sequence‐Coded Polymer Taggants

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

  • Karen Muyor

    Vascular calcification in different arterial beds in ex vivo ring culture and in vivo rat model

    Université de Montpellier · FR

  • Philippe Lambin

    Predicting Adverse Radiation Effects in Brain Tumors After Stereotactic Radiotherapy With Deep Learning and Handcrafted Radiomics

    Maastricht University Medical Centre · NL

  • Doriana Fruci

    Targeting the antigen processing and presentation pathway to overcome resistance to immune checkpoint therapy

    Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital · IT

  • Weiping Jia

    Recent advances in diabetes and microbiota

    Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital · CN

  • Stefano Gariazzo

    Late-time interacting cosmologies and the Hubble constant tension

    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino · IT

  • Jonas Werner

    Cardinal Composition

    University of Bern · CH

  • Santosh Phuyal

    Mechanical strain stimulates <scp>COPII</scp> ‐dependent secretory trafficking via Rac1

    University of Oslo · NO

  • Santosh Phuyal

    Mechanical strain stimulates <scp>COPII</scp> ‐dependent secretory trafficking via Rac1

    University of Oslo · NO

  • Arjun Narayanan

    A condensate dynamic instability orchestrates actomyosin cortex activation

    Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems · DE

  • Mattia Chini

    An increase of inhibition drives the developmental decorrelation of neural activity

    Universität Hamburg · DE

  • Olivier Da Ines

    DMC1 attenuates RAD51-mediated recombination in Arabidopsis

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

  • Sigurd Flågan

    Microcavity platform for widely tunable optical double resonance

    University of Calgary · CA

  • Sigurd Flågan

    Microcavity platform for widely tunable optical double resonance

    University of Calgary · CA

  • Ole N. Jensen

    Quantitative phosphoproteome analysis of Streptomyces coelicolor by immobilized zirconium (IV) affinity chromatography and mass spectrometry reveals novel regulated protein phosphorylation sites and sequence motifs

    University of Southern Denmark · DK

  • Sara Mederos

    Protocol to downregulate GABAergic-astrocyte signaling via astrocyte-selective ablation of GABAB receptor in adult mice

    Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging · GB

  • Miriam Colombo

    Conjugation of gold nanoparticles with multidentate surfactants for enhanced stability and biological properties

    University of Milano-Bicocca · IT

  • Training a new generation of researchers in offshore seaweed aquaculture to produce high-value chemicals

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Long-TREC: The Long-Reads Transcriptomics European Consortium. The next generation transcriptome biology revealed by single molecule sequencing technologies

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €2,621,931

  • Joseph P. A. Harrity

    A Dynamic Thermodynamic Resolution Strategy for the Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Streptonigrin

    University of Sheffield · GB

  • Laura Goea

    Hnf1b renal expression directed by a distal enhancer responsive to Pax8

    Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement · FR

  • Leandro J. Llorente‐González

    Using Macroeconomic Indicators to Enact an Ambitious Circular Economy

    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · ES

  • Unravelling the Effects of Music on Sleep through Musicology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Computer Science

    FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN · DE · €2,468,844

  • Antenna Systems Experts for 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €4,201,236

  • Optical fiber higher order mode technologies and their application within communication, sensing and bio imaging

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Functional Nano-Scaffolds for Regenerative Medicine

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO · IT

  • DNA replication at the heart of cell fate decisions and cancer development

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES

  • An integrated approach to restore tolerance in autoimmune disease

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Valorization of CO2 for low carbon cement

    Fuller Technologies Denmark A/S · DK