EU-Projects

Below you will find an overview of European projects at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Freiburg.

European Research Council (ERC) grants

European projects since 2021

European projects between 2014 – 2020

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European Research Council (ERC) grants

All ERC grants are listed by funding line and by date.

ERC Synergy Grants

DegrAbility – On the Degradability of Protein Aggregates by Autophagy (2026)
Prof. Dr. Claudine Kraft, Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie
SOL – Switchable rhodOPsins in Life Sciences (2022)
Dr. Franziska Schneider-Warme^###, Universitäts-Herzzentrum, Institut für Experimentelle Kardiovaskuläre Medizin

ERC Advanced Grants

ERC Consolidator Grants

ERC Starting Grants

ERC Proof of Concept Grants

# ERC Grantee was at the University of Freiburg at the time of approval, but has left the University of Freiburg.

## ERC Grantee was not yet at the University of Freiburg at the time of approval.

### Involved as a team member in an ERC project.

European projects since 2021

ERC grants since 2021 can be found here:

ERC Grants

All other European projects since 2021 are listed by funding programme and by date.

Horizon Europe: Marie-Skłodowska Curie Actions

Horizon Europe: Research Infrastructure

EBRAINS 2.0 – A Research Infrastructure to Advance Neuroscience and Brain Health (2024)
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Weiller / Prof. Dr. Michel Rijntjes, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience

Horizon Europe: Cluster Health

Horizon Europe: European Innovation Council (EIC)

Horizon Europe: WIDENING

MRITwins – Twinning of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Institutes (2022)
Prof. Dr. Maxim Zaitsev, Department of Radiology

European Joint Transnational Calls and other European Partnerships

AsthmaPre – Saliva-based Monitoring System to predict Asthma Exacerbation Risk (2025; Eurostars)
Prof. Dr. Daiana Stolz, Department of Pneumology
EnviroMood – Neurobiological mechanisms of the environment-plasticity-behavior interaction (2024; ERA-NET NEURON)
Prof. Dr. Claus Normann, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
M3DiCam – Real-Time intraoperative Gamma Imaging for augmented Surgery (2024; Eurostars)
Dr. Martin Peter Pichotka, Department of Radiology
MATTO-GBM – Multimodality Artificial intelligence open-source Tools for Radiation Treatment Optimization in patients with Glioblastoma (2024; ERA-NET TRANSCAN)
Prof. Dr. Anca-Ligia Grosu, Department of Radiation Oncology
PROMISE – Precision Immunology: Mining Inborn Errors of Immunity for Personalized Therapeutic Strategies in Non-monogenic Inflammatory Disorders (2024; EP PerMed)
Prof. Dr. Bodo Grimbacher, Institute for Immunodeficiency
A4IM – Affordable low-field MRI reference system (2023; EURAMET)
Prof. Dr. Maxim Zaitsev, Department of Radiology
AD-Imprint – Unlock the early life pathological imprinting of Alzheimer’s disease via lifestyle (2023; JPND)
Prof. Dr. Daniel Erny, Institute of Neuropathology
ETAP – Early diagnosis and personalized Therapy in Autism spectrum to Prevent severe disorders (2023; ERA PerMed)
Prof. Dr. Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
FEMSCAN – Fast and Efficient MRI Scanning for breast cancer detection (2023; Eurostars)
Prof. Dr. Maxim Zaitsev, Department of Radiology
iCC-Strat – Risk stratification and subtyping of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma for early detection of recurrence and response to immuno-therapy (2023; ERA-NET TRANSCAN)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Schilling, Center for Pathology
NARRATIVE – Natural history, quality of life and patient-reported outcomes in vascular anomalies (2023; EJPRD)
Dr. Friedrich Kapp, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
PARADISE – PersonAlisation of RelApse risk in autoimmune DISEase (2023; ERA PerMed)
Prof. Dr. Harald Binder, Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics
PIXEL – Profiling and functional analysis of the Immune environment of eXtramedullary leukemia rELapses (2023; ERA-NET TRANSCAN)
Prof. Dr. Robert Zeiser, Department of Medicine I: Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
PLASTIG – Bekämpfung von Tumorheterogenität und PLASTIzität als Resistenzmechanismen beim Glioblastom (2023; ERA-NET TRANSCAN)
PD Dr. Dieter Henrik Heiland, Department of Neurosurgery
SmartCAR-T – Cells that modify the tumor microenvironment to augment efficacy (2023; ERA-NET TRANSCAN)
Prof. Dr. Robert Zeiser, Department of Medicine I: Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
BUR-EB – Changes in the Socio-economic Burden of Epidermolysis Bullosa in Europe (2022; EJPRD)
Prof. Dr. Christina Has, Department of Dermatology
GrowDMD – Growing into adulthood with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – comparing patient experiences and systems to optimize care (2022; EJPRD)
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Langer, Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscle Disorders
PREDICO – Defining PREDictive Immunedeterminants of response to neoadjuvant Chemoradiation in Oesophageal adenocarcinoma (2022; ERA-NET TRANSCAN)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Schilling, Center for Pathology

Other European Projects

Chemo.PrO – Entwicklung einer durchgängig digitalen Informationsplattform für die Tumortherapie (2024; Interreg ABH)
Prof. Dr. Monika Engelhardt, Department of Medicine I: Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
EURO-NMD 23-27 – European Reference Network for Rare Neuromuscular Diseases 23-27 (2023; EU4Health)
Prof. Dr. Janbernd Kirschner, Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscle Disorders
IMAGINE-STIM – Multimodale Bildgebung in mit mentaler Retardierung assoziierter Epilepsie zur Entwicklung therapeutischer Hirnstimulation (2023; Interreg Oberrhein WO)
Prof. Dr. Dominik von Elverfeldt, PD Dr. Thomas Lange, Department of Radiology; Prof. Dr. Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Department of Neurosurgery
MEDIATE – MEthoDs guIdance for public heAlTh Evidence synthesis and evidence-based advice (2024; HaDEA / ECDC)
Prof. Dr. Jörg Meerpohl, Institute of Evidence-based Medicine
NETZWERK ADEBAR – Ausbau analytischer Datenbanken, Erhebung und bundesweite sowie internationale Bereitstellung von analytischen Daten, pharmakologischen Daten, Metabolitenspektren und Referenzmaterialien für neu auf dem Drogenmarkt auftretende Stoffe (2023; ISF)
Prof. Dr. Volker Auwärter, Institute of Forensic Medicine
Transition – Digital TRANSition and dIgiTal resIlience in ONcology (2023; EU4Health)
Dr. Simon Spohn, Department of Radiation Oncology
VESRA – Vaccine Evidence Synthesis and Review (Call for Tender/Service Contract: ‚Systematic reviews of scientific evidence on vaccines and capacity building activities‘) (2023; HaDEA)
Prof. Dr. Jörg Meerpohl, Institute of Evidence-based Medicine
ChildCA – Improvement of the children care teaching as template for upgrading medical education in Central Asia (2021; ERASMUS+)
Prof. Dr. Markus Hufnagel, Center for Pediatrics

European projects between 2014 and 2020

ERC grants between 2014 and 2020 can be found here:

ERC Grants

All other European projects between 2014 and 2020 are listed by finding programme and by year.

Horizon 2020

European Joint Transnational Calls and other European Partnerships

FIBRONETx – Casting NETs in the fibrotic heart (2020; ERA-NET CVD)
PD Dr. Thilo Witsch, University Heart Center Freiburg – Bad Krozingen, Department of Cardiology and Angiology
PersoRad – Implementation of mobile health tools and artificial intelligence for personalised radiation treatment planning and monitoring in prostate cancer (2020)
Prof. Dr. Anca-Ligia Grosu, Department of Radiation Oncology
GATA2-HuMo – Human disease modelling of GATA2-related Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Acute Myeloid Leukemia (2019; ERA PerMed)
Dr. Marcin Wlodarski, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
LVAD-Strat – Stratication of heart failure patients for cardiac recovery upon cardiac unloading by left ventricular assist device therapy: addressing the molecular, epigenetic, and proteomic changes associated with reverse cardiac remodeling (2019; ERA PerMed)
PD Dr. Oliver Schilling, Center for Pathology
GEPARD – Genomics-based tools for personalized treatment to reduce chemotherapy burden in pediatric cancer (2019; ERA PerMed)
Dr. Jesus Duque Afonso, Department of Medicine I: Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
PEN – Policy Evaluation Network, JPI A Healthy Diet for A Healthy Life (2019; HDHL)
Prof. Dr. Jörg Meerpohl, Institute of Evidence-based Medicine; German Cochrane Foundation
PerProGlio – Integrative Personal Omics Profiles in Glioblastoma Recurrence and Therapy Resistance (2019; ERA PerMed)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Schilling, Center for Pathology
PersoProCaRisk – Integrative Personalised Risk and Therapy Stratification of Localized Prostate Cancer (2019; ERA PerMed)
Prof. Dr. Anca-Ligia Grosu, Department of Radiation Oncology
EDITSCIDPROG – Gene edited lymphoid progenitors for adoptive transfer as a treatment of primary immunodeficiency (2018; E-RARE)
Prof. Dr. Hermann Eibel, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI)
i-PAD – Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis of Primary Antibody Deficiency (PAD) Patients for Stratification According to Cellular Pathways (2018; E-RARE)
Prof. Dr. Bodo Grimbacher, Institute of Immunodeficiency
MuTaEB – Mutation-targeted gene and pharmacological therapies for dystrophic and junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa (2018; E-RARE)
Prof. Dr. Christina Has, Department of Dermatology
BacVirlSG15 – The Interferon Stimulated Gene 15 (ISG15) modification system in host pathogen interactions: Mechanisms, technology and translational potential (2017; Infect-ERA)
Dr. Klaus-Peter Knobeloch, Institute of Neuropathology
ExoDiagnos – Selective express tumor diagnostic with narrow band nanophotonic structures (2016; RUS PLUS)
PD Dr. Irina Nazarenko, Institute for Infection Prevention and Control
KLKIN – Netherton Syndrome: From mechanisms to therapeutics (2016; E-RARE)
PD Dr. Oliver Schilling, Institut für Molekulare Medizin und Zellforschung
Propekal5 – Tracing the untackled facets of Peeling Skin Disease-Targeting epidermal proteolysis for treatment (2016; E-RARE)
PD Dr. Oliver Schilling, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research
TANKACY – TArgeting Natural Killer cells Against Cytomegalovirus (2016; Infect-ERA)
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hengel, Institute of Virology
EURO-CID – Non-SCID combined immunodeficiencies: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge (2015; E-RARE)
Prof. Dr. Stephan Ehl, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI)
EURO-CMC – Novel treatment strategies for autosomal dominant chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (2015; E-RARE)
Prof. Dr. Bodo Grimbacher, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI)
Neuro-IFN – Investigation of the neuroinflammatory basis of the human type I interferonopathy Aicardi Goutières Syndrom (AGS) (2015; NEURON)
Prof. Dr. Marco Prinz, Institute of Neuropathology
EBThera – Repurposing biomolecules for the treatment of epidermolysis bullosa (2014; E-RARE)
Prof. Dr. Leena Bruckner-Tuderman, Department of Dermatology
EURO-DBA – The European Diamond-Blackfan Anemia Consortium (2014; E-RARE)
Dr. Marcin Wlodarski, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

European Reference Networks (ERN)

Interreg-V Upper Rhine

Other European Projects

NPS-PRISON – NPS use in European prisons – assessing prevalence and providing a comprehensive strategy for effective prevention and intervention (2018; JUST)
Prof. Dr. Volker Auwärter, Institute of Forensic Medicine
ROCD – Reducing risks from Occupational exposure to Coal Dust (2017; RFCS)
Dr. Richard Gminski, Institute for Infection Prevention and Control, Environmental and Nano Toxicology
SPICE PROFILING – Assessment of the origin, supply chain and market development of NPS by forensic analysis of the composition and of the chemical, metabolic and isotopic signature (2014; ISEC)
Prof. Dr. Volker Auwärter, Institute of Forensic Medicine