12.12.19 – Professor Elena Goun has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.

The European Research Council’s (ERC) Consolidator Grants are given annually to researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of research experience after completion of their PhD, as well as “a scientific track record showing scientific talent and an excellent research proposal”. The Grants generally provide funding for five years and are one of the most important awards a scientist could receive within the European Union.

This year, one of the Consolidator Grants has been awarded to Professor Elena Goun at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences. Professor Goun directs the Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Imaging at EPFL, where her research focuses on novel chemical tools to address important questions in biology and medicine with the aim of advancing our understanding of underlying mechanisms of human diseases.

Professor Goun’s awarded project is titled METABOLIGHT: Optical imaging platform to unravel metabolic reprogramming of cancer: a path for improved treatments.