Luca Giorgetti receives SNSF Consolidator Grant

Today the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) announced the recipients of the SNSF Consolidator Grants 2022, a transitional funding measure aimed at researchers who planned to apply for an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2022. FMI group leader Luca Giorgetti is among the grantees; he will use his grant to study the fundamental principles that govern enhancer biology. A total of 182 applications for an SNSF Consolidator Grant 2022 were evaluated. After a two-stage evaluation, the SNSF decided to fund 30 applications. They will be supported with a total of almost CHF 54 million over an average of five years. Luca Giorgetti's research project - Research in Luca Giorgetti's lab is focused on the interactions between enhancers and promoters — two types of DNA sequences which are essential for gene transcription, the process by which a piece of DNA that codes for a specific gene is copied into messenger RNA. Promoters are located immediately before genes where dedicated proteins bind to initiate transcription.