Life Sciences Call 2013 (being processed)

New Ventures Beyond Established Frontiers

The LS Call 2013 "New Ventures Beyond Established Frontiers" closed on February 14.
123 short proposals were submitted with 90 applications from male Principal Investigators and 33 applications from female PI´s. 31 proposals have been invited to submit a full proposal till 2 pm, May 28, 2013.
Call fiche pdf
Guide for writing a full proposal pdf
Cost Planning Tool xls
The submission system for the full proposal will be open from 2 pm, March 28. 2013 - please use the same login details as for the short proposal phase.

Life Sciences Call 2012

Food and Nutrition

The „Food and Nutrition“ Call 2012 has been closed on 31 May 2012. In total, 60 proposals have been submitted in response to this call. From 22-23 October 2012 a two-day jury meeting took place in Vienna gathering 11 international jurors. During the meeting, the jury extensively discussed the submitted proposals on the basis of at least three international reviews per proposal as well as based on their own expertise and formed their funding recommendation. On November 6, 2012 WWTF Board of Directors fully confirmed the jury’s funding recommendation.

Within the “Food and Nutrition” Call 2012, 8 projects with a total amount of 3.036 mio. € will be funded.

These are the successful projects within this call:
Project Title: Nutrition and the intestinal microbiota-host symbiosis
Principal investigator: Alexander Loy
Home institution: University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
Funding volume: 335 700 €

Project Title: Unravelling the pathogenetic mechanisms of fructose consumption
Principal investigator: Michael Trauner
Home institution: Medical University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
Funding volume: 400 000 €

Project Title: d-i.INFLACOW
Principal investigator: Qendrim Zebeli
Home institution: University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
Funding volume: 400 000 €

Project Title: Deoxynivalenol-glucoside and acetylated derivates: relevant masked mycotoxins
Principal investigator: Gerhard Adam
Home institution: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Project duration: 2 years
Funding volume: 400 000 €

Project Title: Nutrition intervention and physical training in malnourished frail community-dwelling elderly subjects carried out by trained lay „buddies“
Principal investigator: Thomas E. Dorner
Home institution: Medical University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
Funding volume: 309 000 €

Project Title: Dietary vitamin D, a powerful weapon in the war against colorectal cancer
Principal investigator: Enikö Kallay
Home institution: Medical University of Vienna
Project duration: 4 years
Funding volume: 300 000 €

Project Title: Vitamin A metabolism in the regulation of energy balance
Principal investigator: Florian Kiefer
Home institution: Medical University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
Funding volume: 469 000 €

Project Title: Epidemiology of food allergy in and around Vienna and the impact of filaggrin gene loss-of-function mutation on food allergy
Principal investigator: Tamar Kinaciyan
Home institution: Medical University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
Funding volume: 423 000 €

LS 12 Jury Process

LS12 Call Fiche

Life Sciences Call 2011

Linking Research and Patients' Needs

The „Linking Research and Patients‘ Needs“ Call 2011 has been closed on 25 January 2011. In total, 83 proposals have been submitted in response to this call with a requested funding volume of around 50 Mio. €. From 16-17 June 2011 a two-day jury meeting took place in Vienna gathering 11 international jurors. During the meeting, the jury extensively discussed the submitted proposals on the basis of at least three international reviews per proposal as well as based on their own expertise and formed their funding recommendation. On 22 June 2011 WWTF Board of Directors fully confirmed the jury’s funding recommendation.

Within the “Linking Research and Patients’ Needs” Call 2011, 8 projects with a total amount of 4.93 mio. € will be funded.

These are the successful projects within this call:

“Second generation human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for broad-spectrum protection against HPV-induced skin and mucosal neoplasia”
Principal Investigator: Reinhard Kirnbauer / Medizinische Universität Wien
Project duration: 4 years

“A new treatment concept for lung injury”
Principal Investigator: Peter Petzelbauer / Medizinische Universität Wien
Project duration: 3 years

„Quantitative MRI assessment of cartilage glyco-saminoglyacan content in the ankle”
Principal Investigator: Stephan E.R. Domayer / Medizinische Universität Wien
Project duration: 3,5 years

"Serum-Autoantibody testing for early diagnosis of Breast Cancer”
Principal Investigator: Andreas Weinhäusel / Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Project duration: 3 Jahre

„Enhanced Therapy for Liver Malignancies based on Optimised Secondary Particle Radiotherapy and Bio-pharmacokinetic Modelling”
Principal Investigator: Claudia Kuntner / Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Project duration: 3 years

„Tumor-infiltrating CD20+ B cells: Promoters of human melanoma?”
Principal Investigators: Stephan Wagner/ Margarita Maurer/ Medizinische Universität Wien
Project duration: 3 years

“The relation between retinal and optic nerve head parameters and circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer profile”
Principal Investigator: Clemens Vass / Medizinische Universität Wien
Project duration: 3 years

“Augmentation of residual neural control by non-invasive spinal cord stimulation to modify spasticity in spinal cord injured people”
Principal Investigators: Winfried Mayr/ Ursula Hofstötter/ Medizinische Universität Wien
Project duration: 4 years

International Jury Life Sciences Call 2011

Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators Call 2010

Life Sciences

Alipasha Vaziri (MFPL/IMP/ Uni Vie), Claudine Kraft (MFPL) and Jürgen Kleine Vehn (BOKU) will come to Vienna to build their own research groups here.

Decisions for the Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators Call 2010 have been made at the jury meeting on September 9-10, 2010. The decision process included a strictly international expert jury, peer review, funding recommendation by the jury and formal decision by the WWTF Board of Directors. In a two-step process 25 short proposals have been submitted to WWTF, from those the jury selected 13 and invited them to submit a full proposal. Each of the 13 proposals was subject to a minimum of two peer reviews from international scientists of the respective field. All 13 candidates have been invited to a hearing in front of the jury which resulted in the funding recommendation.

Life Sciences Call 2009

Molecular Mechanisms and Methods

For this year’s Life Sciences Call a total sum of 5.5 mio. € was dedicated. Within the framework of the defined deadline for submission a total number of 75 proposals has been submitted. This corresponds to a requested funding volume of about 48 mio. €.

From 6-7 July 2009 the Life Sciences Jury meeting took place gathering 11 international jurors chaired by Kay Huebner (Ohio State University). During the meeting, the jury extensively discussed the submitted proposals on the basis of at 2-6 exclusively international reviews per proposal and formulated the jury recommendation. On 15 July the WWTF Board of Directors fully confirmed the jury’s funding recommendation.

The jury recommends a total number of 11 projects requesting a funding volume of 5.5 mio. €:

• Molecular mechanisms of memory formation: targets of Drosophila Orb2
Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP)
Krystyna Keleman
funding volume: 530.000 €; duration: 3 years

• Searching for Cancer Achilles‘ Heels
Sebastian MB Nijman
Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM)
funding volume: 550.000 €; duration: 3 years

• Molecular function of CTCF and cohesins in regulating nuclear organization and gene activity
Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP)
Jan-Michael Peters
funding volume: 575,000 €; duration: 3 years

• Epigenetic Regulation of T Cell Development and Function
Medical University of Vienna
Wilfried Ellmeier
funding volume: 552,000 €; duration: 3 years

• tRNA methylation, 5‘ end processing, and Alzheimers‘ disease: molecular mechanisms of a multifunctional mitochondrial enzyme
Medical University of Vienna
Walter Rossmanith
funding volume: 400,000 €; duration: 4 years

• BIOGEN – From genes to biocontrol
Vienna university of Technology
Susanne Zeilinger
funding volume: 410,000 €; duration: 4 years

• Multiphasic comparative analysis of key nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in wastewater treatment plants
University of Vienna
Holger Daims
funding volume: 630,000 €; duration: 3.5 years

• TOXI-GENOME: Understanding and exploiting epigenetic chromatin regulation mechanisms to mine fungal genomes for novel secondary metabolites
Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) und University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences
Joseph Strauss
funding volume: 390,000 €; duration: 4 years

• The dynamics of the miRNA effector complex
Max F. Perutz Laboratories (University of Vienna and Medizinical University of Vienna)
Silke Dorner
funding volume: 343,200 €; duration: 3 years

• Towards sustainable food and bioenergy security for society: Establishing an academic compound screening platform in Vienna to characterize and modulate Strigo-lactone synthesis in plants
Max F. Perutz Laboratories (University of Vienna and Medizinical University of Vienna)
Tobias Sieberer
funding volume: 640,000 €; duration: 3 years

• Analysis of the consequences of autommunity to anti-lysosomal Membran Protein-2 (hLAMP-2) in focal necrotizing Glomerlulonephritis (FNGN): towards novel therapeutic and monitoring strategies
Medical University of Vienna
Renate Kain
funding volume: 480,000 €; duration: 4 years

Life Sciences Chairs 2008

Quantitative Methods in Life Sciences – from Observations to Paradigm

Life Sciences Call 2007

Linking Research and Patients’ Needs

The “Life Sciences 2007 – Linking Research and Patients' Needs“ Call provided funding to six projects, with a total amount of about € 4.3 million.

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Life Sciences Call 2005

Molecular Mechanisms and Methods

This Call provided funding for eight projects, with a total amount of € 5 million.

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Life Sciences Chairs 2004

Research Group Manager/Bioinformatics

The WWTF Board decided in its meeting of 16 December 2004 to give a massive boost to the life sciences in Vienna by adding two bioinformatics research groups, for which it provided altogether € 3 million in funding.

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Life Sciences Call 2003

Molecular Mechanisms and Methods

The first Call of this thematic programme funded ten projects with altogether € 5.67 million.

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