Research USI in facts and figures
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Competitive research is all research financed by funds allocated on a competitive basis by the European Union, by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), or by the Swiss Innovation Agency - Innosuisse
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ERC
The ERC are prestigious funds from the European Research Council. They are assigned on a competitive basis and represent the international value of the funded research. To this day, active or formerly active USI researchers were awarded 32 ERCs:
Researcher Project Type of ERC Organisational unit Year Michele Parrinello PUSH-BOUND ERC Advanced
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2010
-2015Antonio Lanzavecchia IMMUNExplore ERC Advanced
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2010
-2015Andrea Alimonti PICS Therapy ERC Starting
GrantInstitute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2011
-2016Fabrizio Grandoni Newnet ERC Starting
GrantDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) 2012
-2016Michael Bronstein COMET ERC Starting
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2012
-2017Federica Sallusto Predict ERC Advanced
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2013
-2018Michele Parrinello VARMET ERC Advanced
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2016
-2020Antonio Lanzavecchia BROADimmune ERC Advanced
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2015
-2020Andrea Alimonti Immune-senescence ERC Consolidator
GrantInstitute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2016
-2021Petr Cejka HRMECH ERC Consolidator
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2016
-2021Matteo Prato (joint grant) BLINDSPOT ERC Advanced
GrantInstitute of Management and Organisation (IMO) 2016
-2019Patrick Thomas Eugster LIVESOFT ERC Consolidator
GrantFaculty of Informatics 2017
-2019Michael Bronstein VideoPlus ERC Proof of
ConceptInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2017
-2018Michael Bronstein LEMAN ERC Consolidator
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2017
-2020Jürgen Schmidhuber AlgoRNN ERC Advanced
GrantDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) 2017
-2022Michael Bronstein GOODNEWS ERC Proof of
ConceptInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2018
-2020Davide Rossi CLLCLONE ERC Consolidator
GrantInstitute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2018
-2023Paolo Tonella PRECRIME ERC Advanced
GrantSoftware Institute (SI) 2019
-2024Piotr Didyk PERDY ERC Starting
GrantFaculty of Informatics 2019
-2024Roger Geiger TIL-FIT ERC Starting
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2019
-2023Gabriele Bavota DEVINTA ERC Starting
GrantSoftware Institute (SI) 2020
-2025Vittorio Limongelli CoMMBi ERC Consolidator
GrantFaculty of Biomedical Sciences 2021
-2026Petr Cejka BRCA INSIGHTS ERC Advanced
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2022
-2027Simone Bersini I’M AGEING SERI-funded ERC Starting Grant Faculty of Biomedical Sciences 2023
-2027Arianna Baggiolini Oncogenic Competence
at the Cellular and Multicellular
Level in MelanomaSNSF Starting Grant* Institute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2023
-2027Michael Multerer Multiresolution methods
for unstructured dataSNSF Starting Grant* Euler Institute (EUL) 2023
-2027Andrea Alimonti Microbiota regulation
of prostate cancer growth
and metastatic disseminationSNSF Advanced Grant* Institute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2023
-2028Damiano Costa Temporal Existence SNSF Starting Grant* Faculty of Theology of Lugano 2023
-2027Arianna Calcinotto Dissecting the role of intracellular bacteria
and neutrophil heterogeneity
in cancer susceptibility and progressionSNSF Starting Grant* Institute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2024
-2028Roger Geiger TCR-PREDICT SERI-funded ERC Consolidator Grant* Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2024
-2029Giuditta Cirnigliaro Fable, Emblem, Poem, Performance :
Renaissance Word and Image TalesSNSF Starting Grant* Institute of Italian Studies (ISI) 2024
-2029Samuel Philip Nobs Unraveling host-microbiome interactions in lung fibrosis SNSF Starting Grant* Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2024
-2029* Transitional funding schemes by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation to compensate for Switzerland's coinciding exclusion from the Horizon Europe programme