Carlijn Bouten receives ERC Advanced Grant

A personal ERC Advanced Grant for her promising but high-risk research proposal. Professor Carlijn Bouten will investigate how the organization of heart muscle tissue can be restored when the heart muscle heals after an injury.

These grants of €2.5 million each are awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) for research by leading scientists who wish to pursue an original high-risk, high-reward research proposal. The researchers and their teams can use the funding for their research over the next five years.

Carlijn Bouten (Department of Biomedical Engineering)

The ambitious research goals for which Carlijn Bouten, Professor of Cell-Matrix Interactions in Cardiovascular Regeneration at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, plans to use the ERC Advanced Grant capture the imagination.

Read the full article from TU/e here.