Awarded Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions projects at KI
KI has been awarded a number of Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions Doctoral Networks and Postdoctoral Fellowships. Below are the MSCA fellows and projects hosted by KI within the framework programs "Horizon 2020" and "Horizon Europe". Horizon 2020 (H2020) ran between 2014-2020 and Horizon Europe is ongoing between 2021-2027.
MSCA focuses on training of researchers with advanced skills acquisition and career development through international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility as well as transfer of knowledge. The research topic and field is chosen freely by the researcher in a bottom-up manner.
Postdoc Fellowships
Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships is a program within the European Commission's new Framework Program, Horizon Europe. The program aims at fellows who possess a PhD degree and have maximum eight years of research experience.
Awarded MSCA Projects at KI
2023
Manasa Shanta Yerramalla, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society.
Project : Sleep genes and Circadian rhythm in dementia prevention. Principal Investigator: Shireen Sindi.
Theodora Manolakou, Department of Oncology-Pathology.
Project : Targeting DNA Damage Response and Metabolism for Precision Medicine in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Principal Investigator: Thomas Helleday.
Krishnashand Padmanabhan, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
: SpatioTemporal Diversification of Enteric Nervous system. Principal Investigator: Ulrika Marklund.
Dimitrius Guimaraes, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.
Project: : Unveiling the role of histone marks in metabolic memory storage and transmission.
Principal Investigator: Juleen Zierath.
Thomas Contesse, Department of Neuroscience.
Project : Habenula molecular and functional Organization in models of Pathological Emotional States. Principal Investigator: Konstantinos Meletis.
Till Bruckner, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.
Project : Improving Clinical Trials Reporting. Principal Investigator: Gustav Nilsonne.
Pradeep R Reddy, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology.
Project: : Dissolving microneedle array patch-based psoriatic immunotherapy using nanoparticles. Principal Investigator: Georgios Sotiriou.
Luis Miguel Cardoso dos Santos, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Project : Smooth muscle cell modulation by the MaR1-LGR6 duo: novel role in the resolution of human cardiovascular inflammation. Principal Investigator: Magnus Bäck.
Mattia Zaghi, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : Monitor Multiple Sclerosis evolution using body fluids derive cell-free epigenomics. Principal Investigator: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.
Lauren Phipps, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : Characterising the molecular and cellular basis of enteric nervous system alterations in the inflamed gut. Principal Investigator: Ulrika Marklund.
Ting Sun, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : Deciphering SNPs involved in oligodendroglia functional resilience in multiple sclerosis. Principal Investigator: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.
Tomasz Czerniak, Department of Women's and Children's Health.
Project : Characterisation and design of RNA-lipid interactions for RNA therapeutics. Principal Investigator: Erdinc Sezgin.
2022
Luca Panariello, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : Biorthogonal Catalytic Scaffold for in situ Personalized Cancer Chemo-Immunotherapy. Principal Investigator: .
Niki Karouta, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology.
Project : Flame-made calcium phosphate nanoparticles for biological drug delivery toward healing chronic wound. Principal Investigator: Georgios Sotiriou
Giada Di Nunzio, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Project :Initiation Mechanisms of Lipid-driven Diseases. Principal Investigator: Stephen Malin.
Per Davidson, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.
Project : Examining effects of daytime naps on memory consolidation and emotional reactivity in a well-powered, pre-registered multi-lab collaboration. Principal Investigator: Gustav Nilsonne.
Julia Rogal, Department of Neuroscience.
Project : NeuroEnergetics-on-Chip: Disease modeling of impaired brain glucose metabolism using human iPSC-derived neurovascular units (NVU)-on-chip systems. Principal Investigator: Anna Herland.
Sigrid Wahlen, Department of Medicine, Huddinge.
Project : Deciphering vitamin A and D regulation of human NK cells for cellular immunotherapy. Principal Investigator: .
2021
Mariano D'Angelo, Department of Neuroscience.
Project How cortical oscillations bind sensory stimuli into a multisensory representation of the physical self. Principal Investigator: Henrik Ehrsson.
Rubin Dasgupta, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : In cellular conformations of microRNA-34a via magnetic resonance. Principal Investigator: Katja Petzold
Sha Sun, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : Targeted delivery of lipid nanoparticle-mRNA formulations modified with ligand pattern to dendritic cells based on DNA origami. Principal Investigator: Björn Högberg.
Jan Schlegel, Department of Women's and Children's Health.
Project : Nanoscale analysis of symmetry and molecular membrane topography. Principal Investigator: Erdinc Sezgin.
Elisabeth Verboven, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.
Project : Innervation-driven mechanisms of bile duct development. Principal Investigator: Emma Andersson.
Lenka Belicova, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.
Project : Mechanisms of cell plasticity in the liver. Principal Investigator: Emma Andersson
Martyna Lukoseviciute, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.
Project : Identification of Transiently Formed Immune-Endogenous Neural Stem Cell Niches in Spinal Cord Injury Principal Investigator: Jonas Frisén
Xavier Job, Department of Neuroscience.
Project : Perception in Action: Neural Dynamics of Sensorimotor Interactions in Touch. Principal Investigator: Konstantina Kilteni.
2020
Hongya Geng, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : Highly Biomimetic Proregenerative Scaffold for Personalized Nerve Repair. Principal Investigator: .
Camila Consiglio, Department of Women's and Children's Health.
Project : Dissecting the role of sex hormones in human antiviral immunity. Principal Investigator: Petter Brodin.
2019
Laura Crucianelli, Department of Neuroscience.
Project : Behavioural, psychophysiological and neuroimaging investigations on the role of temperature perception in body ownership. Principal Investigator: .
Andrea Teufelberger, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Project : Unravelling maintenance mechanisms of immune tolerance after termination of venom immunotherapy by means of clonal mast cell diseases. Principal Investigator: Gunnar Nilsson.
Eleni Bletsa, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology.
Project : Nanoengineered coatings for visible-light photocatalytic disinfection of ̽ѡ devices. Principal Investigator: Georgios Sotiriou.
2018
Ionut Dumitru, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.
Project : Transcriptional characterization of human postnatal and adult neural progenitors and of the stem cell niches. Principal Investigator: Jonas Frisén.
Pavitra Kannan, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology.
Project : Imaging tumor vessels as a marker for p53 mutation status in cancer. Principal Investigator: Sir David Lane.
Carolyn Cesta, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Project : International Pregnancy Safety Study. Principal Investigator: Helle Kieler.
Camilla Engblom, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Project : Plasma cell heterogeneity and dynamics in patient tumors. Principal Investigator: Jonas Frisén.
Jinan Behnan, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : Origin and Function of Tumor-Associated Macrophages and Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in GBM Subtypes. Principal Investigator: Patrik Ernfors.
Kimberly Siletti, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : The molecular diversity of regeneration in the zebrafish spinal cord. Principal Investigator: Sten Linnarsson.
Quirin Hammer, Department of Medicine, Huddinge.
Project : Synthetic Natural Killer Cells for Immunotherapy. Principal Investigator: Karl-Johan Malmberg.
Lilit Nersisyan, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology.
Project : Ribosomal frameshifts as a novel mechanism to control RNA turnover in stress. Principal Investigator: Vicente Pelechano.
2017
Donatella Galgano, Department of Medicine, Huddinge.
Project : Molecular dissection of cytotoxic lymphocyte exocytosis. Principal Investigator: Yenan Bryceson
Kaarina Kowalec, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Project : Identifying Clinical, Demographic, and Genomic Risk Factors for Treatment-Resistant Psychiatric Disorders. Principal Investigator: Patrick Sullivan
Patricia Rodriguez, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society.
Project : Understanding selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease. Principal Investigator: Angel Cedazo Minguez
Beatrice Zetti, Department of Medicine, Huddinge.
Project Tissue Resident Memory (Trm) CD8+ T cells: Genome-wide dissection of cellular differentiation and heterogeneity. Principal Investigator: Yenan Bryceson
Eneritz Agirre, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : Single cell omics of the Oligodendrocyte Lineage in develOpment and disease. Principal Investigator: Gonҫalo Castelo-Branco
Angelica Cuapio Gomez, Department of Medicine, Huddinge.
Project : Tick-borne encephalitis Targeted by Human Active NK cells. Principal Investigator: Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren
2016
Chiara Sorini, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Project : Characterizing Microbe-specific Immune Responses in the pathogenesis of Autoimmunity. Principal Investigator: Eduardo Villablanca
Christopher Wood, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project Nano Traction. Principal Investigator: Molly Stevens
Judith Schlagnitweit, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : Development of a high-resolution method to monitor structural changes of regulatory RNAs and therapeutic oligo-nucleotides directly in-cell. Principal Investigator: Katja Petzold
, Department of Neuroscience.
Project : Identifying the neuronal basis of self-concept in the human medial prefrontal and medial temporal brain regions. Principal Investigator: Henrik Ehrsson
2015
Alessandro Bosco, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.
Project : Molecular Mechanisms of Dynamic and Spatial Control of Eph Receptors clustering. Principal Investigator: Ana Teixeira
Hana Kammoun, Department of Medicine, Huddinge.
Project : Dissecting the human microbiota-macrophage-innate lymphoid cell crosstalk in the lung. Principal Investigator: Tim Willinger
Derrick Roberts, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : A multifunctional self-immolative hydrogel for accelerating the healing of chronic wounds. Principal Investigator: Molly Stevens
Soniya Savant, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.
Project : Pericyte-derived tumor stroma – a target for cancer therapy. Principal Investigator: Christian Göritz
Adam Gormley, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : Discovery of anticancer polymeric drugs that mimic the action of TRAIL. Principal Investigator: Molly Stevens
Hanna Barriga, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Project : An innovative class of nanoparticles (“SmartCubes”) for the targeted delivery of protein therapeutics. Principal Investigator: Molly Stevens
Nicolas Pillon, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.
Project : Skeletal Muscle Inflammation: ambivalent roles in Exercise and Diabetes. Principal Investigator: Juleen Zierath.
Konstantina Kilteni, Department of Neuroscience.
Project : Self and others in the sensorimotor system: a computational neuroanatomy of sensory attenuation. Principal Investigator: Henrik Ehrsson
Niklas Mejhert, Department of Medicine, Huddinge.
Project : Mechanisms of cellular fatty acid homeostasis. Principal Investigator: Mikael Rydén
2014
Viktoria Konya, Department of Medicine, Huddinge.
Project : Cell-cell interactions critical to ILC3 function in the human gut. Principal Investigator: Jenny Mjösberg
Joao Rosa, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.
Project DNA Origami for drug delivery. Principal Investigator: Björn Högberg
Hildur Arnardottir, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Project : Novel Resolvin D3: its Role and Actions in the Resolution of Aortic Valvular Inflammation and Stenosis. Principal Investigator: Magnus Bäck
DN Projects
The Doctoral Networks (DN) are training projects within the Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA). The projects are consortium based with both academic and non-academic international organisations, which recruit PhD students for advanced training. The PhD students must be enrolled in a PhD program. The framework Program HORIZON EUROPE spans between 2021-2017.
Awarded MSCA Projects at KI
2023
GA 101168892. Network for Cross-disciplinary assessment of Endocrine Disrupting compounds: training the next generation of toxicologists. Principal Investigator: Anna Beronius.
GA 101166838. Metabolic Regulation of Genome Function and Cell Iidentity. Principal Investigator: Andreas Lennartsson.
GA 101169403. Respiratory Precision Medicine PhD Training Network- Excellence through Systems Biology, Spatial and Single-cell Transcriptomics. Principal Investigator: Jenny Mjörsberg.
GA 1101167421. UnderstandiNg fraIlty tOwards a future of healthy ageiNg. Principal Investigator: Davide Liborio Vetrano.
2022
GA 101120524 Identifying mechanisms and novel treatments of bone pain – closing the gap to the clinic. Principal Investigator: Camilla Svensson.
GA 101119464 Preventing Therapy Resistance in Esophageal Cancer Using Advanced Models and Molecular Signatures. Principal Investigator: Magnus Nilsson.
2021
GA 101072515 Quality Control of the Mitochondrial Gene Expression System in Health and Disease. Principal Investigator: Joanna Rorbach.
GA 101073238 Learning from animals how to regenerate: multidisciplinary training programme in regenerative biology. Principal Investigator: András Simon.
ITN Projects
The Innovative Training Networks (ITN) are training projects within the Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA). The projects are consortium based with both academic and non-academic international organisations, which recruit early stage researchers/students for advanced training, mostly for PhD. Horizon 2020 (H2020) was the eighth framework program and ran between 2014-2020.
Awarded MSCA Projects at KI
2020
GA 956070 Oligonucleotides for Medical Applications
Principal Investigator: Roger Strömberg
GA 956414 Cerebellum and Emotional Networks
Principal Investigator: Kristoffer Månsson. Fellow: Tugce Yildiz.
GA 956314 Allostery in Drug Discovery
Principal Investigator: Roman Zubarev
2019
GA 857894 Active Monitoring of Cancer As An Alternative To Surgery
Principal Investigator: Anna Martling. Fellow: Sofieke Temmink.
GA 859860 Innovative strategies for cancer prevention with focus on sex hormone signaling and chronic inflammation
Principal Investigator: Mikael Altun. Fellow: Maria Joao Almeida Silva Pires.
GA 860035 Secretion, Autophagy and their role in Neurodegeneration
Principal Investigator: Per ET Nilsson. Fellow: Joanna Mayer.
GA 860563 European School of Network Neuroscience
Principal Investigators: Sten Grillner, Marie Carlén. Fellows: William Scott Thompson, Marina Slashcheva.
GA 860675 What makes a successful pathogen? Understanding the impact of cell-to-cell heterogeneity in chromatin structure on infection and adaptation.
Principal Investigator: Magda Bienko. Fellow: Wing Hin Yip.
GA 860665 Innovative Training Network on PER and polyfluorinated alkyl substances towards the Future Of Research and its Communication in Europe 3
Principal Investigator: Mattias Öberg. Fellow: Lars Brunken.
GA 861196 PancREatic Cancer OrganoiDs rEsearch Network
Principal Investigator: Matthias Löhr. Fellow .
GA 859890 Gut-brain-axis: Targets for improvement of cognition in the elderly.
Principal Investigator: . Fellow: Inez Martinez Sanchez.
2018
GA 812829 Joint Training and Research Program on Chromatin Dynamics and the DNA Damage Response
Principal Investigator: Nicola Crosetto. Fellow: Luuk Harbers.
GA 813851 Training for Advanced Stem Cell Technologies in Neurology
Principal Investigator: Ernest Arenas. Fellow: Guochang Lyu.
GA 814244 A European Training Network to Combat Bone Pain.
Principal Investigator: Camilla Svensson. Fellow: Nils Simon.
GA 814302 Shaping the social brain through early interactions.
Principal Investigator: Terje Falck-Ytter. Fellow: Irzam Hardiansyah.
GA 814316 A multidisciplinary approach towards sustainable improvement in rare diseases care uniting Europe's top class vascular research to find new treatment strategies for vascular anomalies
Principal Investigator: Lars Jakobsson. Fellow: Antonio Queiro Palou.
GA 812890 Establishing the molecular fundamentals of arthritic diseases – a step forward to Heal Arthritis
Principal Investigators: Per-Johan Jakobsson, Åsa Wheelock. Fellows Jianyang Liu, Benedikt Zöhrer.
GA 813707 Innovative Training Network in Female Reproductive Care
Principal Investigator:s Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, Juha Kere. Fellows: Nina Boskovic, Yiqun Tang.
2017
GA 764281 An Integrated Platform for Developing Brain Cancer Diagnostic Techniques
Principal Investigator: Janne Lehtiö. Fellow: Haris Babacic.
GA 764474 Combatting the CardioRenal Syndrome: towards an integrative Analysis to reduce cardiovascular burden in chronic kidney disease
Principal Investigator: Peter Stenvinkel. Fellow: Sam Hobson.
GA 764958 New nanomaterials for neural stem cells drug delivery
Principal Investigator: Ana Teixiera. Fellow: Georges Kiriako.
GA 765158 COmbatting disorders of adaptive immunity with Systems MedICine
Principal Investigator: Rikard Holmdahl. Fellows: Ana Coehlo, Alexander Krämer.
GA 765703 DNA-Based Modular Nanorobotics.
Principal Investigator: Björn Högberg. Fellows: Igor Baars, Marco Lolaico.
GA 764860 Targeting neuroinflammation to combat pathological pain in neurodegenerative diseases and chronic pain syndromes
Principal Investigators: Camilla Svensson, Eva Kosek. Fellows: Silvia Fanton, Joana Menezes.
2016
GA 722609 International Network for Training on Risks of vascular Intimal Calcification And roads to Regression of cardiovascular disease
Principal Investigators: Peter Stenvinkel, Johan Frostegård, Magnus Bäck, Ulf Hedin.
Fellows: Lu Dai, Shailesh Samal, Nikolaos Skenteris, Till Seime.
GA 721613 Molecular Tools for Nucleic Acid Manipulation for Biological Intervention.
Principal Investigator: Roger Strömberg. Fellow: Olivia Luige.
GA 722605 TRANSlating the role of Mitochondria in Tumorigenesis
Principal Investigator: Maria Shoshan. Fellow: Nicole Bezuidenhout.
GA 722729 Targeting SYNthetic lethal interactions for new cancer treatments TRAINing network.
Principal Investigator: Thomas Helleday. Fellows: Aleksandra Pettke, Bishoy Hanna.
GA 721567 Childhood and Adolescence Psychopathology: unravelling the complex etiology by a large Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Europe
Principal Investigator: Paul Lichtenstein. Fellow: Ashley Thompson.
GA 722046 European School for Interdisciplinary Tinnitus Research.
Principal Investigator: Christoher Cederroth. Fellow: Natalia Trpchevska.
2015
GA 676144 Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer Disease.
Principal Investigator: Bengt Winblad. Fellows: Giacomo Dentoni, Hazal Haytural, Una Smailovic.
GA 675111 European Vascular Interventions and Therapeutic Innovation Network.
Principal Investigator: Jon Lundberg. Fellow: Chiara Moretti.
GA 675071 ISOTOPIC LABELING FOR DRUG INNOVATION
Principal Investigator: Christer Halldin. Fellows: Kaisa Horkka, Melodie Ferrat.
GA 676265 Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology (INDUCT).
Principal Investigator: Louise Nygård. Fellows: Sophie Gaber, Sarah Wallcook.
GA 675610 Chromatin and Metabolism Chromatin-metabolism interactions as targets for healthy living
Principal Investigator: Juleen Zierath. Fellow: Laura Sardon Puig.
2014
GA 643051 Mastering skills in the training Network for attention deficit hyperactivity and autism spectrum Disorders.
Principal Investigator: Henrik Larsson. Fellow: Laura Ghirardi.
GA 642934 Chromatin Dynamics in Development and Disease.
Principal Investigator: Anita Göndör, Rolf Olsson. Fellows: Ilias Tzelepis, Mirco Martino.
GA 643062 Computational and functional annotation of genomic elements during development of the model vertebrate zebrafish .
Principal Investigator: Carsten Daub. Fellows: Irene Stevens, Abdul Kadir Mukarram, Matthias Hörtenhuber, Michael Dong.
GA 642720 European Training Network on Bone Pain
Principal Investigator: Camilla Svensson. Fellows: Resti Rudjito, Alexandra Jurczak.
GA 642996 Integrated view on disruptions of early brain development
Principal Investigators: Sven Bölte, Terje Falck-Ytter. Fellows: Lynnea Myers, Monica Siquerios.