ERC Starting Grant
Award year: 2022
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Starting Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
Stefan Uderhardt was recognised for his outstanding contribution to science to date and for his particularly innovative research project. He now hopes to use the funding to investigate the ‘Internet of connective tissue’ in our body, with the aim of finding out how the body launches targeted immune reactions against threats. In his project named ‘Network Synergies in Stromal Tissue Homeostasis and Prevention of Inflammatory Disease’, Stefan Uderhardt suggests a revolutionary concept revolving around an ‘Internet of tissue’ which communicates the place, time and extent of the damage to the macrophages.