Cluster PIs Kerstin Göpfrich and Daniela Duarte Campos are among the winners of the European Research Council (ERC) 2022 Starting Grant that is being awarded to excellent young scientists for their promising ideas and research projects. With this grant, Prof. Göpfrich funds her project “From engineering to evolution of synthetic cells with RNA origami” and Jun.-Prof. Duarte Campos her research on surgical optogenetic bioprinting of engineered cardiac muscle. The ERC is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research and funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe.
