Maartje Bastings receives a 2018 Young Investigator Research Grant

© 2018 EPFL

© 2018 EPFL

Prof. Maartje Bastings, head of the Programmable Biomaterials Laboratory (PBL) at EPFL's School of Engineering has received a 2018 Young Investigator Research Grant by the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).

Maartje Bastings received a Young Investigator Research Grant for a for proposal titled "Detecting inequity in dendritic cells through bio-inspired synthetic T cells" (submitted jointly with Ralf Jungmann from Munich, Germany and Ian Parish from Melbourne, Australia).

Human Frontier Science Program is an international program of research support, funding frontier research on the complex mechanisms of living organisms.

HFSP Research Grants provide 3 years of support for international teams involving at least two countries.