Major European grants for four UofG researchers

Four researchers from the University of Glasgow have received frontier research funding grants from the European Research Council. They are among the more than 300 academics from across Europe awarded European Research Council Consolidator Grants today (Wednesday 9 December 2020), representing a total investment of €655 million. The ERC Consolidator Grants are awarded to outstanding researchers of any nationality and age, with at least seven and up to 12 years of post-PhD research experience. The funding is provided for up to five years and mostly covers the employment of researchers and other staff to consolidate the grantees' teams. The four awards will bring in a total of €8.4 million to the University. The University of Glasgow's four grant recipients are drawn from across the Colleges of Science and Engineering and Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences. Dr Alfredo Castello, of the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, will develop his -RNP-capture- project, which aims to discover the landscape of cellular RNA-binding proteins that regulate the life cycle of RNA viruses.