When bones fail to heal – for example after an accident or cancer treatment – bone defects remain, placing a burden on patients as well as society and the economy. “Worldwide, more than four million operations per year require bone grafts or substitutes. At the same time, current treatment options are limited.
Is cooperative communication unique to humans? This view is challenged by Prof. Dr. Simone Pika, a cognitive biologist, in her ERC Consolidator Grant project “Taking turns – The ‘missing’ link in language evolution?”. Here, Pika and her team of six are looking at the system of “turn-taking”, the communicative interplay.
Medicines that are injected must be continuously tested for impurities as part of their production and release, as these can cause fever or even blood poisoning. Until now, this has mostly been done using animal tests, animal products or the so-called monocyte activation test (MAT).
David Abson is very excited about the funding commitment, which launches a new phase of his academic research, “I believe that the concept of sufficiency, what it means to have ‘enough,’ is an extremely important and so far under-researched idea in the sustainability discussion.
Nearly two million euros in funding for mathematical optimisation project at TU Braunschweig. For his research in the field of mathematical optimisation, Professor Christian Kirches from Technische Universität Braunschweig receives a coveted Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
On the trail of the magnetic sense: Henrik Mouritsen (University of Oldenburg) and his British colleague Peter Hore(University of Oxford) have been conducting research since 2019 as part of the ERC Synergy Grant QuantumBirds. The project aims to understand how the magnetic sense in migratory birds works.