Funding

Coordinator

  1. Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (H.F.R.I.). “Always Strive for Excellence – Theodore Papazoglou” action (under the “Science and Society” program), Project Number: 28056. Title: “DendroLeap: A dendro-centric framework for learning optimization in biological and artificial systems” (Rated A in the 2023 ERC AdG call). Period: 01/12/2024 – 30/05/2028. Budget: €1,250,000

  2. Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (H.F.R.I.) Collaborative Grant. Co-PI: with Georgia Gregoriou (PI). Title: “COFLEX: Mechanisms of cognitive flexibility across primates, rodents and machines”. Period: 01/02/2024 – 31/12/2025. Total Budget: €400,000 | Lab Budget: €200,000

  3. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (European Commission). Fellow: Anthi Apostolopoulou. Title: “GABAergic INterneurons signaling ImbalancE; A promising target underlying PFC-dependent cognitive flexibility defects”. Period: 01/07/2022 – 30/06/2024. Total (FORTH & Lab) Budget: €153,486

  4. NIH Grant (No. 1R01MH124867-01). Funding: National Institutes of Health (NIH). Co-PI: with Attila Losonczy (PI). Title: “Experimental and modeling investigations into microcircuit, cellular and subcellular determinants of hippocampal ensemble recruitment to contextual representations”. Period: 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2024. Total Budget: $3,000,000 | Lab Budget: $615,000

  5. Einstein Visiting Fellowship. Funding: Einstein Foundation Berlin. Host: Larkum Lab, Humboldt University of Berlin. Title: “Investigating the mechanisms of behavioral flexibility”. Period: 01/2020 – 12/2022. Budget: €449,771

  6. FET Open Project 863245 — NEUREKA. Funding: European Commission. Title: “A smart, hybrid neural-computo device for drug discovery”. Period: 12/2019 – 11/2023. Total Budget: €2,776,704 | Lab Budget: €753,250. Webpage: neureka.gr

  7. FORTH Synergy Grant. Co-PI: with Pavlos Pavlidis (ICS-FORTH). Title: “EVO-NMDA: Evolution of the NMDA receptor and its role in cognitive functions”. Period: 01/10/2019 – 30/09/2021. Lab Budget: €40,000

  8. Foundation Santé Grant (Extension). Funding: Fondation Santé. Title: “Linking dendritic properties of neurons to prefrontal function using a multi-disciplinary approach”. Period: 04/2019 – 03/2020. Total / Lab Budget: €25,000

  9. Foundation Santé Grant. Funding: Fondation Santé. Title: “Linking dendritic properties of neurons to prefrontal function using a multi-disciplinary approach”. Period: 03/2018 – 02/2019. Total / Lab Budget: €25,000

  10. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Collaboration: with Nektarios Tavernarakis. Fellow: Thanasis Spathis. Period: 07/2017 – 07/2018. Lab Budget: €27,000

  11. NeuroCure Visiting Grant. Institution: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (in collaboration with Matthew Larkum). Title: “Linking dendrites to PFC network function: a multidisciplinary approach”. Period: 01/04/2016 – 30/03/2018. Budget: €30,000

  12. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (European Commission). Fellow: Pavlos Pavlidis. Title: “Evolution of gene regulatory networks by means of natural selection and genetic drift”. Period: 01/04/2014 – 30/03/2016. Budget: €169,000

  13. ERC Starting Grant 2012 — dEMORY. Funding: European Research Council (ERC). Title: “Dissecting the Role of dendrites in memory”. Period: 2012 – 2017. Budget: €1,398,000

  14. ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΤΟΣ ΙΙ (HERACLITUS II). Funding: General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece. PhD Candidate: Nestoras Karathanassis | Co-PI: Kriton Kalantidis. Title: “Μελέτη microRNA-mRNA αλληλεπιδράσεων σχετιζόμενες με καρκίνο”. Period: 2010 – 2013. Total Budget: €45,000

  15. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Outgoing Fellowship (European Commission). Fellow: Kyriaki Sidiropoulou. Title: “Cellular mechanisms underlying formation of the fear memory trace in the mouse amygdala”. Period: 01/03/2010 – 28/02/2012. Budget: €205,071

  16. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Outgoing Fellowship (European Commission). PI & Fellow: Dr. Panayiota Poirazi. Title: “Computational modeling and physiological studies of neural form and function in the aging brain”. Period: 01/03/2008 – 28/02/2010. Budget: €204,141

  17. EMBO Short-Term Fellowship. Funding: European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Fellow: Dr. Panayiota Poirazi (visit to Alcino Silva’s lab at UCLA for electrophysiology training). Period: 15/01/2008 – 15/03/2008. Budget: €6,800

  18. A.G. Leventis Foundation Grant. Funding: A.G. Leventis Foundation. Purpose: Establishment of an Electrophysiology Unit at IMBB-FORTH. Period: 01/2006. Budget: €109,175

  19. PENED. Funding: General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece. Title: “Development of computational methods for genomic data analysis”. Period: 01/2006 – 12/2008. Total Budget: €228,000 | Lab Budget: €129,600

  20. EMBO Young Investigator Award. Funding: European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Title: “Using Computational Methods to Understand Neural and Gene Function”. Period: 01/2005 – 12/2007. Budget: €69,600

  21. ΠΡΑΞΕ (PRAXE). Funding: General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece. Title: “Development of a Software Package for the Analysis of Gene and/or Protein Expression Data”. Period: 01/2004 – 06/2005. Budget: €30,000

  22. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (European Commission). Funding: European Commission (Contract No: QLK6-CT2001-51031; Proposal ranked 4th among 200 funded applications). Title: “Using Expression Profiling to Identify Molecular Mechanisms in Malaria: Introducing Neural Networks for Microarray Data Analysis”. Period: 01/2002 – 06/2004. Budget: €75,200

  23. A.G. Leventis Foundation Grant. Funding: A.G. Leventis Foundation. Purpose: Publication of postdoctoral research work based on originality and impact on the scientific community. Period: 03/2001 – 09/2001. Budget: €6,000

 

Host

  1. Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (H.F.R.I.) Postdoctoral Researcher Grant. Recipients / Hosts: Athanassia Papoutsi (hosted by Poirazi Lab, IMBB-FORTH) & Meropi Mari (hosted by Filippidis Lab, IESL-FORTH). Title: “Synaptic Engram of Flexible Behavior”. Period: 2018 – 2021. Total Budget: €180,000. Webpage: neurodelight.org

  2. NARSAD Young Investigator Award. Recipient: Athanassia Papoutsi. Period: 2019 – 2021. Total Budget: $70,000

 

Partner

  1. ERC Advanced Grant — Cortical Coupling (GA: 101055340). Coordinator / PI: Matthew Larkum | Partner: P. Poirazi. Title: “Dendro-somatic Coupling and global neuronal signaling”. Period: 01/01/2023 – 31/12/2027. Total Budget: €2,500,000 | Lab (& FORTH) Budget: €196,250

  2. NHMRC Ideas Grants 2021 (Australia). Coordinator: Lucy Palmer. Title: “The role of memory engrams in the cortex”. Period: 2022 – 2024. Total Budget: $996,007 | Lab (& FORTH) Budget: $150,000

  3. Horizon 2020 MSCA ITN 2019 — SmartNets (GA: 860949). Funding: European Commission. Coordinator: Stichting Katholieke Universiteit. Title: “Advanced simulation, analysis and interpretation of network structures in biological data”. Period: 2020 – 2024. Total Budget: €3,356,292 | Lab (& FORTH) Budget: €486,035

  4. Horizon 2020 MSCA RISE 2019 — iNAVIGATE (GA: 873178). Funding: European Commission. Coordinator: Radboud University Nijmegen. Title: “Brain-inspired technologies for intelligent navigation and mobility”. Period: 2019 – 2021. Total Budget: €1,932,000 | Lab (& FORTH) Budget: €147,200

  5. ΚΡΗΠΙΣ — ΒΙΟΣΥΣ. Funding: General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece. Title: “Ανάπτυξη Διεπιστημονικών Ερευνητικών Δραστηριοτήτων στην Κατεύθυνση της Βιολογίας Συστημάτων”. Period: 2013 – 2015. Total Budget: €2,527,000 | Lab Budget: €30,000

  6. ERC Advanced Grant (Nationally Funded). PI: Prof. A. Gravanis. Title: “3D Scaffolds hosting neural stem cells: developing Neuroimplants and Neurobiosensors”. Period: 2012 – 2015. Total Budget: €1,700,000 | Lab Budget: €40,000

  7. FP7 REGPOT 2012-2013-1 — InnovCrete. Coordinator: M. Kokkinidis. Title: “Unlocking the innovative capacity of multidisciplinary structural biology-driven research in Crete”. Period: 2012 – 2015. Total Budget: €4,000,000 | Bioinformatics Postdoc Allocation: ~€90,000

  8. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Initial Training Network (ITN, European Commission). Coordinator: University of Antwerp. Title: “Neuroelectronics and nanotechnology: towards a Multidisciplinary Approach for the Science and Engineering of Neuronal Networks”. Period: 2011 – 2015. Budget: €186,000

  9. FP7 INFRASTRUCTURES 2010-2 — HP-SEE. Funding: European Union. Coordinator: GRNET. Title: “High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s Research Communities”. Period: 09/2010 – 09/2012. Total Budget: €2,100,000 | Lab Budget: €30,000

  10. ΣΥΝΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ (SYNERGASIA). Funding: General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece. Title: “Ανάπτυξη Εθνικού Δικτύου Γονιδιωματικής Έρευνας: Μεθοδολογική Προσέγγιση στην Βιολογία Συστημάτων”. Period: 09/2010 – 09/2013. Total Budget: €800,000 | Lab Budget: €41,500

  11. NSF Grant (No. 0515357). Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF), USA. PI: Bartlett Mel. Title: “Anatomical, Physiological, and Modeling Studies of Memory-Related Neural Form and Function”. Period: 30/09/2006 – 01/10/2009. Total Budget: $550,000 | Lab Budget: $66,000

  12. PROGNOCHIP. Funding: General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece. PI: George Thireos. Title: “Development and Establishment of DNA Microarray Technology in Greece: Identification and Validation of Classification and Prognosis Molecular Markers for Breast Cancer”. Period: 12/2003 – 12/2006. Total Budget: €350,000 | Lab Budget: €11,628

  13. INFOBIOMED (Network of Excellence – NoE). Funding: European Commission (IST-eHealth Program, FP6-IST-507585). PI: George Potamias. Title: “Structuring European Biomedical Informatics to Support Individualised Healthcare”

 

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