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Modesto Orozco receives an ERC Advanced Grant, the most prestigious funding awarded for scientific projects in Europe

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 28.10.2011

Modesto Orozco receives an ERC Advanced Grant, the most prestigious funding awarded for scientific projects in Europe

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Modesto Orozco, researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), based at the Barcelona Scientific Park, an Advanced Grant within the category of Physical Sciences and Engineering, which received 917 applications from around Europe.


Awarded by the European Research Council and providing funding of around 2 and 3 million Euros over five years, ERC Advanced Grants are given to a limited number of senior scientists.

The multidisciplinary project awarded within the category of Physical Sciences and Engineering is specialized in chemistry and computational biology, structural biology, biophysics, and bioinformatics and will have direct applications in several fields of biomedicine, such as the regulation of gene expression, and epigenetic mechanisms.

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