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SPARKEE Prof. Soekadar awarded with ERCPoC Grant

Charité neuroscientist Prof. Dr. Surjo Soekadar awarded with ERC Proof of Concept (ERCPoC) grant after NeuroCure/SPARK-BIH funding

Start-up EpiBlok founded by SPARKEE Prof. Heilbronn

EpiBlok Therapeutics GmbH is developing a gene therapy for epilepsy

New SPARK site in Denmark

Denmark's SPARK program has recently been founded at the University of Copenhagen

HTGF supports SPARK-BIH pitch training workshop

Dr. Angelika Vlachou, Principal at High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), supported 25 translational SPARK project teams with a dedicated hands-on Pitch Training Workshop.

NeuroCure Design Thinking workshop

SPARK-BIH and NeuroCure organized a second Design Thinking workshop.

NeuroCure/SPARK Call 2022

After the successful implementation of the NeuroCure/SPARK program, NeuroCure and SPARK-BIH prolong their collaboration and will run a second call for projects.

Cholesterol-lowering drugs may slow down metastases

Researchers led by our SPARKee Ulrike Stein of the ECRC and Robert Preißner of Charité report in "Clinical and Translational Medicine" that statins inhibit a gene that promotes cancer cell metastasis.

Second funding round for NeuroCure/SPARK-BIH teams

NeuroCure grants funding extension to the four NeuroCure/SPARK-BIH teams for an additional year.

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