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SUCCESS STORIES
Meet our laureates and their projects (in the process of being updated)
Catherine Cécile Picart
Host Institution : Grenoble Institute of Technology Laboratory : LMGP Call to project : Proof of Concept Project name : BIOACTIVECOATINGS – BioActive Coatings in multi-well cell culture plates Amount : 0.149 M€ Description : Cell culture is … Read More
Gael de Paepe
Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : INAC Call to project : Consolidator (PE4) Project name : ULT-MAS-DNP – Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at ultra-fast sample spinning and ultra-low temperature Amount : 1.99 M€ Description : The goal of the project is to develop a new hyperpolarization … Read More
Emmanuel Bossy
Host Institution : UGA Laboratory : Liphy Call to project : Consolidator (PE7) Project name : COHERENCE – Exploiting light coherence in photoacoustic imaging Amount : 2.11 M€ Description : Photoacoustic imaging is an emerging multi-wave imaging modality that couples light excitation to acoustic detection, … Read More
Christophe Moreau
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : IBS Call to project : Consolidator (LS1) Project name : NANOZ-ONIC – Bio-inspired electrONIC NOSE interfacing olfactory electrical biosensors and carbon NANOtubes Amount : 1.92 M€ Description : The goal of this project is to develop an innovative biosensor for the … Read More
Florence Bertails-Descoubes
Host institution: INRIA Laboratory: INRIA Grenoble / LJK Call for projects: Starting (PE6) Project Name: GEM – From Geometry to Motion: Inverse Modeling of Complex Mechanical Structures Amount: €1.49m Description : With the considerable … Read More
Gaelle Offranc-Piret
Host institution: INSERM Laboratory: CLINATEC Call for Projects: Starting (PE8) Project name: BRAIN MICRO SNOOPER – A mimetic implant for low disturbance, stable stimulation and recording of neural units inside the brain Amount: €1,499,850 Description : Developing brain implants is … Read More
Ioan Mihai Miron
Host institution: CNRS Laboratory: Spintec Call for Projects: Starting (PE3) Project name: SMART DESIGN – Spin-orbit mechanism in adaptive magnetization-inversion techniques, for the design of magnetic memories Amount: €1,476M Description : Compared to existing Random Access Memories, the Magnetic RAM … Read More
Alphée Michelot
Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : BIG Call to project : Starting (LS3) Project name : SegregActin – Building Distinct Actin Filament Networks in a Common Cytoplasm Amount : 1,500 M€ Description : The ability of cells to use the actin cytoskeleton for a diversity … Read More
Benjamin Sacépé
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : NEEL Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du projet : QUEST – QUantum Hall Edge State Tunnelling spectroscopy Montant : 1 761 412 € Description : The quantum nature of an electronic fluid is ubiquitous in many solid-state systems … Read More
Hugues Nury
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : IBS Appel à projet : Starting (LS1) Nom du Projet : PentaBrain – STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF MAMMALIAN CYS-LOOP RECEPTORS Montant : 1,500 M€ Description : In the brain, Cys-loop receptors mediate fast neurotransmission. They function as allosteric signal … Read More
Irina Gutsche
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : IBS Call of project : Consolidator (LS1) Project name : Chap4Resp – Catching in action a novel bacterial chaperone for respiratory complexes Amount : 1 999 956 € Description : Cellular respiration provides energy to power essential processes of … Read More
Olivier Renaudet
Host Institution : UJF Laboratory : DCM Call to project : Consolidator (PE5) Project name : LEGO – Multimodal glycoconjugates: a molecular Lego approach for antitumoral immunotherapy Amount : 2 M€ Description : Despite significant progress in cancer therapy, current treatments are still controversial due to … Read More
Eddy Collin
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : NEEL Appel à projet : Consolidator (PE3) Nom du Projet : ULT-NEMS – Ultra-Cold Nano-Mechanics: from Classical to Quantum Complexity Montant : 1.99 M€ Description : Nano-electro-mechanical devices (NEMS) are extremely small objects that can be actuated and detected … Read More
Nicolas Mordant
Host Institution: UJF Laboratory: LEGI Call for projects: Consolidator (PE3) Project Name: WATU – Wave turbulence: beyond weak turbulence Amount: €1,991,611 Description : Wave turbulence and fluid turbulence belong to the same class of turbulent states consisting of a large … Read More
Bernard Dieny
Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : Spintec Appel à projet : Advanced (PE7) Nom du Projet : MAGICAL – CMOS/magnetoelectronic Integrated Circuits wil Multifunctional Capabilities Montant : 2,5 M€ Description : Spin Transfer Torque Magnetic memories (STT-MRAM) are receiving a growing R&D effort within the … Read More
Jean-Pierre Demailly
Host Institution : UJF Laboratory : Institut Fourier Call of project : Advanced (PE1) Project name : ALKAGE – Algebraic and Kähler geometry Amount : 1 809 345 M€ Description : The purpose of this project is to study basic questions in algebraic and Kähler … Read More
Xavier Bonfils
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : OSUG-iPAG (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE9) Nom du Projet : EXTRA – Exoplanets in Transit and their Atmosphere Montant : 2 M€ Description : Since the discoveries of giant planets outside our Solar System, over 800 extra-solar … Read More
Patrice Horaud
Host Institution : INRIA Laboratoire : Perception (INRIA Grenoble/UGA-LJK) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE6) Nom du Projet : VHIA – Vision and Hearing in Action Montant : 2,5 M€ Description : The objective of VHIA is to elaborate a holistic computational paradigm of perception and … Read More
Philippe Marmottant
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : Liphy (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects : Consolidator (PE8) Project name : BUBBLEBOOST – Microfluidic bubbles for novel applications: acoustic laser and ultrasonically controlled swimming microrobots Amount : 1,86 M€ Description : Microfluidic techniques developed since the … Read More
Sébastien Hentz
Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : Léti Call for projects : Consolidator (PE7) Project name : ENLIGHTENED – Nanophotonic Nanomechanical Mass Spectrometry for Biology and Health Amount : 2 M€ Description : Mass Spectrometry has become a routine analytical tool in modern biological … Read More
Olivier David
Host Institution : INSERM Laboratory : GIN (INSERM/CEA/CHU/UJF) Call for project: Consolidator (LS5) Project Name : F-TRACT – Functional Brain Tractography Amount : 2 M€ Description : Single-pulse direct electrical stimulation of cortical regions in patients suffering from focal drug-resistant epilepsy who are explored … Read More
Mohamed-Ali Hakimi
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : Institut Jean Roget Call for projects : Consolidator (LS6) Name of the project : HOSTINGTOXO – Toxoplasma gondii secretes an armada of effector proteins to co-opt its host cell transcriptome and microRNome to promote sustained parasitism Amount … Read More
Jérôme Boisbouvier
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : IBS Call for projects : Proof of Concept (PoC) Name of the project : NMR-Bio – Commercialization and Dissemination of Innovative Isotopic Labelling Solutions and Services for the NMR studies of Important Protein Targets … Read More
Stephen Cusack
Host Institution : EMBL Laboratory : EMBL-Grenoble-UVHCI (CNRS/EMBL/UJF) Call for Projects : Advanced (LS1) Project name : V-RNA – Two facets of viral RNA: mechanistic studies of transcription and replication by influenza-like viral polymerases and detection by the innate immune system Amount … Read More
Marek Potemski
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : LNCMI-Grenoble (CNRS/UJF) Call for Projects : Advanced (PE3) Name of the project : MOMB – Magneto-optics of layered materials: exploring many-body physics in electronic systems with unconventional bands Amount : 1,93 M€ Description : The project will … Read More
Olivier Arcizet
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : Institut Néel Call for Projects : Starting (PE2) Name of the project : HQ-NOM – Hybrid Quantum Nano-Optomechanics Amount : 1,79 M€ Description : The chief endeavor of the project is to develop, investigate and exploit … Read More
Wiecke Guichard
Host Institution : UJF Laboratoire : Institut Néel (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du Projet : FREQUJOC – Frequency-to-current conversion with coherent Josephson crystals Montant : 1,47 M€ Description : This project aims at exploring the coherence of Josephson crystals … Read More
Tristan Meunier
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : Institut Néel (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du Projet : QSPINMOTION – Quantum coherence and manipulation of a single flying electron spin Montant : 1,5 M€ Description : In quantum nanoelectronics, one of … Read More
Jacek Kasprzak
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : Institut Néel (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du Projet : PICSEN – Propagative and Internal Coherence in Semiconductor Nanostructures Montant : 1,5 M€ Description : This project concerns the field of coherent, nonlinear, … Read More
Vincent Artero
Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : iRTSV-LCBM (CNRS/CEA/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE5) Nom du Projet : PHOTOCATH2ODE – Gathering organic and hybrid photovoltaics with artificial photosynthesis for Photo-Electro-Chemical production of hydrogen. Montant : 1,5 M€ Description : The future of energy supply … Read More
David Cooper
Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : Léti Appel à projet : Starting (PE7) Nom du Projet : HOLOVIEW – Single active dopant detection in semiconductor nanowires using electron holography Montant : 1,5 M€ Description : The end of “happy scaling” in the semiconductor industry … Read More
Paul Schanda
Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : IBS (CNRS/CEA/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (LS1) Nom du Projet :PROTDYN2FUNCTION – Functional protein dynamics studied by solution- and solid-state NMR spectroscopy Montant : 1,49 M€ Description : Proteins are highly flexible objects that perform their … Read More
Manuel Théry
Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : iRTSV-LPCV (CEA/CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (LS3) Nom du Projet : SPICY – Spatial Integration in Cell Cytoskeleton Montant : 1,43 M€ Description : The functional coherence in multicellular arrangements depends on each cells ability to … Read More
Bernard Dieny
Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : SPINTEC (CNRS/CEA/UJF) Call for Projects : Proof of concept (PoC) Name of the project : HYMAGINE Amount : 0,15 M€ Description : This PoC project is closely coupled to the ERC Advanced Grant HYMAGINE. The purpose of … Read More
Stéphane Redon
Host Institution : INRIA Laboratoire : LJK (CNRS/G INP/UJF/UPMF/INRIA) Appel à projet : Starting (PE6) Nom du Projet : ADAPT- Theory and Algorithms for Adaptive Particle Simulation Montant : 1,48 M€ Description : During the twentieth century, the development of macroscopic engineering has been largely … Read More
David Pascal Monniaux
Host Institution : UJF Laboratoire : Verimag (CNRS/G INP/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE6) Nom du Projet : STATOR- STATic analysis with ORiginal methods Montant : 1,47 M€ Description : Since the beginning of computing, software has had bugs. If a word processor … Read More
Cordelia Schmid
Host Institution : INRIA Laboratoire : LJK (CNRS/G INP/UJF/UPMF/INRIA) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE6) Nom du Projet : ALLEGRO – Active large-scale learning for visual recognition Montant : 2,49 M€ Description : A massive and ever growing amount of digital image and video content … Read More
Christian Jutten
Host Institution : UJF Laboratoire : UJF-Gipsa Lab (CNRS/G INP/UJF/Univ Stendhal) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE7) Nom du Projet : CHESS – Challenges in Extraction and Separation of Sources Montant : 2,5 M€ Description : Separation/extraction of sources are wide concepts in information sciences, since … Read More
Pierre Comon
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : Gipsa Lab (CNRS/G INP/UJF/Univ. Stendhal) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE7) Nom du Projet : DECODA – Tensor Decomposition for Data Analysis with Applications to Health and Environment Montant : 1,5 M€ Description : Multi-Way factor Analysis (MWA) is … Read More
Gérard Besson
Host Institution : UJF Laboratoire : Institut Fourier (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE1) Nom du Projet : GETOM – Geometry and Topology of Open Manifolds Montant : 1 M€ Description : The purpose of this project is to study the interactions between Riemannian … Read More
Catherine Cécile Picart
Host Institution : Grenoble Institute of Technology Laboratory: LMGP (CNRS/G INP) Call for projects : Proof of concept Name of the project : OSCODI Amount : 0.15 M€ Description : Successful bone regeneration depends on the establishment of a good contact between … Read More
Jérôme Chappellaz
Host institution: CNRS Laboratory: LGGE (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects: Advanced (PE10) Project Name: ICE&LASERS – Innovative Concepts for Extracting Climate and Atmospheric Composition Records from Polar Ice Cores Using Novel LASER Sensors Amount: €2.99 million Description : ICE&LASERS propose to … Read More
Jean-Louis Barrat
Host Institution : UJF Laboratory : Liphy (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects : Advanced (PE3) Name of the Project : GLASSDEF – Driven Glasses: from statistical physics to materials properties Amount : 1,76 M€ Description : Amorphous systems form a large fraction of the solid materials … Read More
Wilfried Thuiller
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : LECA (CNRS/UJF/Univ. Savoie) Appel à projet : Starting (LS8) Nom du Projet : TEEMBIO-Toward Eco-Evolutionary Models for BIODiversity Scenarios Montant : 1,48 M€ Description : Given the contemporary biodiversity crisis, effective conservation strategies that offset the threats to … Read More
Eric Hervé Jaligot
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : Institut Fourier (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE1) Nom du Projet : GTMT – Group Theory and Model Theory Montant : 0,36 M€ Description : The project is located between logic and mathematics, more precisely between model theory … Read More
Silvano de Franceschi
Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : iNAC Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du Projet : HYBRIDNANO – Engineering electronic quantum coherence and correlations in hybrid nanostructures. Montant : 1,78 M€ Description : Nanoelectronic devices can provide versatile and relatively simple systems to study complex quantum … Read More
Marie-Paule Renée Cani
Host Institution : Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble Institute of Technology) Laboratoire : LJK (CNRS/G INP/UJF/UPMF/INRIA) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE6) Nom du Projet : EXPRESSIVE Montant : 2,5 M€ Description : Despite our great expressive skills, we humans lack an easy way of communicating the … Read More
Christiane Hélène Berger-Schaffitzel
Host Institution : EMBL Laboratoire : EMBL-Grenoble Outstation Appel à projet : Starting (LS1) Nom du Projet : COMPLEXNMD- Eukaryotic mRNA Quality Control Montant : 1,18 M€ Description : Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is an essential mechanism controlling translation in the eukaryotic cell. NMD ascertains accurate … Read More
Eva Maria Monroy Fernandez
Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : iNAC Appel à projet : Starting (PE7) Nom du Projet : TERAGAN – GaN Quantum Devices for T-Ray Sources Montant : 1,63 M€ Description : T-rays, often called terahertz radiation or sub-millimeter waves, are loosely defined as the wavelengths … Read More
Maxime Hofheinz
Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : iNAC Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du Projet : WIQOJO – Wideband Quantum Optics with Josephson Junctions Montant : 1,64 M€ Description : Circuit quantum optics (quantum optics with microwave photons in electronic circuits) has allowed to … Read More
Catherine Cécile Picart
Host Institution : Grenoble Institute of Technology Laboratory : LMGP (CNRS, G INP) Call to Project : Starting (PE5) Name of the Project : BIOMIM – Biomimetic films and membranes as advanced materials for studies on cellular processes. Amount : 1,5 M€ Description : … Read More
Xavier Waintal
Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : iNAC Call for projects : Starting (PE3) Name of the projects : MESOQMC – Quantum Monte-Carlo in mesoscopic devices Montant : 1,22 M€ Description : Understanding electronic correlations remains one of the biggest challenges of theoretical condensed matter … Read More
Ramesh Pillai
Host Institution : EMBL Laboratoire : EMBL-Grenoble Outstation Appel à projet : Starting (LS1) Nom du Projet : PISILENCE – Small RNA-guided complex machinery for epigenetic silencing Montant : 0,9 M€ Description : Transposons are parasitic DNA elements that when activated can insert … Read More
Dai Aoki
Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : iNAC Call for projects : Starting (PE3) Name of the Project : NEWHEAVYFERMION – Novel materials and extreme conditions to open new frontiers in heavy fermion physics. Amount : 1,5 M€ Description : The objective of this project is … Read More
Maxime Richard
Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : Institut Néel (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects : Starting (PE3) Name of the project : Handy-Q-Quantum Degeneracy at Hand Amount : 1,49 M€ Description : Microcavity polaritons are half-light, half-matter composite bosons, which are formed in monolithic semiconductor … Read More
Thomas Ernst
Host institution: CEA Laboratory: Leti Call for projects: Starting (PE7) Project Name: DELPHINS – DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-PHYSICAL INTEGRATED NANOSYSTEMS Amount: €1.72 million Description : The innovation of DELPHINS application will consist in building a generic multi-sensor design platform … Read More
Bernard Dieny
Host institution: CEA Laboratory: SPINTEC (CNRS/CEA/UJF) Call for projects: Advanced (PE7) Project name: HYMAGINE – CMOS/magnetic hybrid components and systems for energy efficient, non-volatile and reprogrammable embedded electronics. Amount: €2.5 million Description : Spin electronics merges magnetism and electronics (Nobel … Read More
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
Host Institution: CNRS Laboratory: Néel Institute (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects: Advanced (PE3) Project Name: MOLNANOSPIN – Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets Amount: €2.1 million Description : A revolution in electronics is in view, with the contemporary evolution of two novel … Read More
Michel Campillo
Host Institution: UJF Laboratory: iSERRE (UJF/CNRS) Call for projects: Advanced (PE10) Project Name: WHISPER – Towards Continuous Monitoring of the Ever-Evolving Earth Amount: €1.7m Description : This project is focused on the use of the seismic ambient noise to monitor … Read More
Guillaume Dubus
Host Institution: UJF Laboratory: OSUG-iPAG (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects: Starting (PE7) Project Name: GAMMARAYBINARIES – Exploring the gamma-ray sky: binaries, microquasars and their impact on understanding particle acceleration, relativistic winds and accretion/ejection phenomena in cosmic sources Amount: €0.79 million Duration: … Read More
André Verdel
Host institution: INSERM Laboratory: IAB (INSERM/UJF/CNRS/CHU) Call for projects: Starting (LS2) Project Name: RNAIEPIMOD – RNA and epigenetics: RNAi-induced chromatin modifications Amount: € 0.9 M Description : RNA interference (RNAi) mediates chromatin changes in fungi, plants, Drosophila, and spawns. In … Read More