FWF Cluster of Excellence Grant awarded to consortium with participation from Noelia Urbán

October 4, 2024

Today, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has awarded a Cluster of Excellence Grant to “Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease”, an interdisciplinary project co-coordinated by Noelia Urbán at IMBA. The project will study the development and function of inhibitory neurons in the brain.

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has announced that “Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease”, a consortium directed by Tibor Harkany at the Medical University of Vienna, and co-coordinated by IMBA Group Leader Noelia Urbán, is one of the two new Clusters of Excellence funded through the Excellent=Austria initiative.

The 21-million-euro funding provided by the Ministry of Education, Science and Research through the FWF will support a collaborative effort by over thirty research teams in Austria to study the development and function of inhibitory neurons in the brain and uncover their role in neuronal diseases such as schizophrenia, autism and epilepsy.

Read the full story in the IMBA News here.