The EC commends the Nobel Prize in Chemistry go to a science scholarship … – La Vanguardia

Brussels, Oct. 8 (EFE) .- The European Commissioners of Education and Culture, Science and Research, Androulla Vassiliou and Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, hailed today that one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the German Stefan W . Hell, is receiving funds from the European Union (EU).

The Nobel, awarded jointly to Americans and Hell Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner, recognizes his work in the development of fluorescence microscopy which has contributed to the study of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Unlike its cogalardonados, who do their work in America, Hell works in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg community program funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (AMSC).

Vassiliou and Geoghegan-Quinn congratulated Commissioners, through a statement, the three laureates and have stated that “featured as Stefan W. Hell researchers are an excellent example of what the mobility of European research can achieve.”

“The AMSC supports the mobility of researchers, enabling them to acquire new knowledge and skills in cutting-edge science, “they said.

The announcement of the Nobel prize for Hell comes just two days after it was known that the award on Medicine to the American John O’Keefe and Norwegian marriage May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser, recipient of grants from the European Research Council, and the three participants in research projects funded by the EU, including through the AMSC.

In the Throughout his career, Hell has received support from the EU through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie, first received a single post-doctorate in 1996 and then he became a mentor to several promising fellows of this program, noted the CE.

Your last AMSC project recently completed in May this year, he added.

The program of Shares Marie Sklodowska-Curie award a total of 6,160 million euros for the period 2014-2020 within the framework of Horizon 2020, the overall program of research funding from the EU, with the goal of reaching one million more jobs for researchers for 2020.