Archive: Grant Winners
Testimonials from selected grant recipients
Grant Winner 2021
Gwendal Gränicher
DiNAQOR AG
“The generous ESACT grant covers allows me to give a talk at the ECI Advancing Manufacture of cell and gene therapies VII conference. Being at an in-person conference allows me to have valuable scientific exchange and exceptional networking opportunities.”
Grant Winner 2020
Manuel Chacón
Unidad de Medicina Regenerative de la Superficie Ocular, Oviedo, Spain
“I’m so grateful to be awarded the ESACT Travel Grant, which will allow me to attend the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting coming May in Baltimore. As I am in my first year of my PhD, I’m very excited to attend this conference in order to receive feedback from experts in my field and meet new colleagues for future steps of my career.”
Grant Winners 2019
Elisabeth Gludovacz
University of Natural Resouces and Life Sciences, Vienna
“I am very grateful for having been awarded an ESACT travel grant that enabled me to give a talk at the 14th Conference on Protein Expression in Animal Cells (14th PEACe, September 22-26, 2019, Newport, Rhode Island, USA). It gave me the opportunity to share and discuss the results of my research with scientists from both academia and industry and to collect new ideas for my future work.”
Ana Luísa Cartaxo
iBET, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica/ ITQB, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
“Winning this grant gave me the opportunity to present and share part of my PhD work with experts in the area of Biomaterials. On top of that, winning the best poster presentation award was one of the best moments of my early stage scientific career.”
Sven Mathias
University of Applied Sciences Biberach, Germany
“Attending the “GRC on Biotherapeutics and Vaccines Development” allowed me to discuss my recent achievements with a highly diverse and valuable scientific community. Further it enabled to gather insights into the latest developments and scientific approaches in the field of producing biotherapeutics. It was a pleasure to meet the critical as well as inspiring auditorium which will have had a substantial influence on my entire scientific career. Thanks for giving me the opportunity!”
Grant Winners 2018
Moritz Wolf
ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
“The ESACT Grand allowed me to attend the Cell Culture Engineering Conference XVI in Tampa (FL), which allowed me to share my most recent research with experts from industry and academia. In addition, the conference provided diverse insights into the hot topics of the cell culture engineering and was an excellecent network opportunity.”
Robson Amaral
University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
“Receiving the ESACT Grant means a lot to me! Taking part in the 3D Cell Culture Congress 2018 in Germany and talking to a lot of other researchers in this field was an inspiring and highly motivating experience for me.”
Nadja Raab
University of Applied Sciences Biberach, Germany
“Receiving the ESACT Grant allowed me to participate in the ECI cell culture engineering conference 2018, which provided diverse insights into current subjects of cell line engineering, highly qualified scientific exchange as well as new approaches and ideas for my PhD work.”
Nicolas Marx
Department of Biotechnology,
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
“With the help of the ESACT Grant I was able to attend the Cell Culture Engineering Conference XVI in Tampa (FL) where I could share my recent research with a high-profile scientific community both from academia and industry. The conference also provided excellent networking opportunities and allowed great discussions with leaders in the field.”
Hai-Yuan Goh
Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering,
Department of Biochemical Engineering,
University College London, United Kingdom
“The ESACT grant has been a great help in supporting my travel to the 255th ACS National Meeting (Division of Biochemical Technology-BIOT) in New Orleans on “Rapid process monitoring & control in mammalian cell culture using off-gas mass spectrometry analysis”. It has been an eye-opening and intense experience of sharing knowledge and having interactions with people across various disciplines, in academia and industry alike. It is through conferences like this that enables cross fertilisation of ideas & ESACT has provided me with the opportunity to do so!“
Grant Winners 2017
Cristiana Lungu
Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology,
University of Stuttgart, Germany
“I am very grateful to the ESACT Society for providing me with travel support to attend the Cytoskeleton 2017 meeting. Taking part in this conference strongly supported the transition I have undertaken in the topic of my research from my PhD to PostDoc. The extensive knowledge I have accumulated during this short time enabled me to better plan my direction of research and build novel hypotheses. Without the ESACT support this process would have been more tedious.”
Valerie Schmieder
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher of the “eCHO Systems” Innovative Training Network
“By receiving the ESACT grant, I got the possibility to share my results at the 20th Biochemical and Molecular Engineering Conference in the US. Moreover, I gained innovative ideas for my future work and I was able to network with the eminent scientific community present at this inspiring conference.”
Grant Winners 2016
Alexander Nikolay
Upstream Processing,
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany
“The ESACT Grant allowed me to present results on a vaccine conference. Fruitful discussions with industry led to new aspects of my PhD project and a better calibration of my work to answer current and future problems in vaccine production.”
Ramón Román
Fermentation Pilot Plant (PPF),
Chemical Engineering Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
“Thanks to the ESACT Grant, I could present a poster about some of my PhD work at the ECB2016 Congress (Krakow).”