Funding

Our research would not be possible without the generous support of public funding agencies, private funders and industry collaborators.

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Research Foundation Flanders

  1. May 2026: Promoter • FWO Strategic Basic Research Project (S020424N) • EUR 1,867,549 for “VIROPROX: Non-insecticidal genetic and chemical control of plant virus diseases via nucleoprotein proximity labelling”.

  2. May 2026: Co-Promoter • FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship • Awardee: Clement Barré-Villeneuve

  3. May 2026: Co-Promoter • FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship • Awardee: Melia Bonnamy

  4. Jan 2025: Promoter • FWO Research Project (G081325N) • EUR 564,153.40 for “Dissecting the temporal & functional partitioning of Arabidopsis clock protein complexes using in-vivo interactomics”.

  5. Jan 2025: Promoter • FWO WEAVE Research Project (G0AR225N) • EUR 386,555.00 for “Deciphering the plant virus-vector-host nucleoprotein interactome using advanced in-vivo proximity labelling techniques”.

  6. May 2024: Co-Promoter • FWO Large-scale Research Infrastructure (I015524N) • EUR 5,339,626.77 for “A Mass Spectrometry based platform for the study of Single Cell Multi-omics.”

  7. February 2023: Promoter • FWO Fundamental Research PhD Fellowship (1PIS24N) • Awardee: Aisha-Alexandra Gerhardt

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Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  1. October 2024: Co-Promoter • Landbouw-traject (LA) grant (HBC.2023.0941) • EUR 1,148,549.00 (for consortium)

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  1. October 2022: Promoter • Special Research Fund Starting Grant (3E221118)

  2. October 2022: Promoter • Special Research Fund Professorship (3E221256)