ERC Grant Awarded for 'Ambitious Researchers'

Ben Schumann is amongst three Imperial academics that have been awarded an ERC research grant to pursue 'ambitious research ideas'. The grant has been awarded to study glycans, carbohydrate-based molecules that carry out various roles vital to cell survival. In this project, the team will develop chemical tools to directly image and map how glycans are added to proteins to create glycoproteins, in living cells. 

President of the European Research Council Professor Maria Leptin said: “It is a pleasure to see this new group of bright minds at the start of their careers, set to take their research to new heights.  I cannot emphasise enough that Europe as a whole - both at national and at EU level - has to continue to back and empower its promising talent.  We must encourage young researchers who are led by sheer curiosity to go after their most ambitious scientific ideas. Investing in them and their frontier research is investing in our future.”