ERC Starting Grant for Tatjana Kleele
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded SNSF Starting Grants to promising scientific talents to support the beginning of their careers. This year, 67 scientists throughout Switzerland received this award. Tatjana Kleele is one of the 13 researchers at ETH Zurich who will receive one of this presitigious grants. Altogether around 22 million Swiss francs will flow to ETH Zurich.
The SNSF Starting Grants are a Swiss transitional measure awarded on behalf of the federal government because researchers at Swiss universities are currently not eligible for Starting Grants of the European Research Council (ERC). Tatjana Kleele who is an Assistant Professor at the D-BIOL's Institute of Biochemistry received one of these presitigious grants for her project entitled " The role of mitochondrial biogenesis and quality control for cell fate decision and neuronal homeostasis".
Link to the website of the Kleele lab.