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The grants enable researchers to carry out their own independent projects and lead a research team in Switzerland. The average duration of the projects is five years and the average funding amount is CHF 1.7 million.
In the 2024 call for proposals, 14 UZH researchers won over the evaluation committees with their applications. Of the funded projects, eight are at the Faculty of Medicine, four are based at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and two are at the Faculty of Science. The total amount of the grants awarded is over CHF 24.7 million over the next five years.
SNSF Starting Grants represent the SNSF’s highest level of career funding. Following a two-stage evaluation, the SNSF awarded a total of 61 grants this year, 40 to female researchers and 21 to male researchers. The total funding amounts to CHF 105.4 million.
| Name | Institute | Project Title | Funding |
| Pascale Willemsen | Department of Philosophy University of Zurich | Shining Light on Praise: Towards an Empirically Grounded Philosophy of Praise | 1,793,168 |
| Tobias Goehring | HNO-Klinik Universitätsspital Zürich | Leveraging artificial intelligence to improve hearing in people with cochlear implants | 1,734,905 |
| Miloud Belkoniene | Department of Philosophy University of Zurich | Understanding: Between Contents and Phenomena | 1,684,308 |
| Tommaso Cavazza | Department of Reproductive Endocrinology University Hospital Zurich (USZ) | Zygote-in-Sync: Parental Genome Synchronization in the Zygote Cell Cycle | 1,785,089 |
| Katharina Anna Wilmes | Institute of Neuroinformatics University of Zurich and ETH Zurich | Neural mechanisms of perception and learning in uncertainty | 1,795,966 |
| Mirella Manfredi | Forschungsabteilung Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie University of Zurich | Humour in adolescents on the autism spectrum: a window into cognition and a tool for well-being | 1,799,279 |
| Eva Zehentner | English Department University of Zurich | Who did what to whom: Strategies for argument disambiguation in early English | 1,642,161 |
| Marco Bacigaluppi | Center for Molecular Cardiology University of Zurich | Unraveling the immune mechanisms of cancer- and infection-associated stroke | 1,743,673 |
| Donatella De Feo | Institute of Experimental Immunology University of Zurich | Unravelling innate immune adaptations in neuroinflammation | 1,798,806 |
| Gregor Weiss | Institute of Medical Microbiology University of Zurich | Dissecting the protective niches of uropathogenic E. coli | 1,800,000 |
| Anne Schulz | Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) University of Zurich | Amidst Abundant Negativity. Studying Negative News, its Social and Political Effects, and Solutions for Sustainable Consumption Across Time and Across Countries | 1,747,236 |
| Peter Stacko | Department of Chemistry University of Zurich | Redox-Driven Photocages to Hijack Pharmacokinetic Profiles of PROTACs | 1,799,371 |
| Jana Ellegast | Klinik für Medizinische Onkologie und Hämatologie, University Hospital Zurich University of Zurich | Exploiting Inflammatory Signaling in Acute Myeloid Leukemia | 1,800,000 |
| Sarah Brüningk | University Children's Hospital Zürich | Pediatric digital health towards data-driven precision therapy | 1,799,995 |
