Seven FWF projects funded

15.10.2021

The FWF is Austria's central institution for the promotion of basic research. It is equally committed to all sciences and is guided in its activities by the standards of the international scientific community.In its Board of Trustees meeting on 27 September 2021, the FWF approved several projects by researchers from the Faculty of Life Sciences: 5 stand-alone projects and 2 Lise Meitner projects.

Stand-alone projects

  • Federico BALTAR (Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology)
    Marine extracellular ecosystem biology
  • Lea Ann DAILEY (Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
    Inhalation of natural products against lung infections
  • Verena DIRSCH (Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
    The neolignan-derived rexinoid LRK071
  • Franz ESSL (Dept. of Botany and Biodiversity Research)
    The biogeography and ecology of alien pathogenic fungi world
  • Florian KOPP (Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
    The role of noncoding RNA NORAD in tissue regeneration

Meitner programme

  • David MÖRSDORF (Dept. of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology)
    Search for an ancestral mechanism of BMP-mediated patterning
  • Jasmine LOVELAND (Dept. of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology)
    Neural bases for behavioral differences in male Ruffs