National & International Grants

Nationally Funded Projects
  • Harnessing vulnerabilities at SAGA in MYC-driven malignancies
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Davide Seruggia
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Stand-Alone Project, ID – P 36069-B
    Duration: 01/01/2023 to 31/12/2025
  • Regulating CAR T cells with a safe and naturally occurring drug
    CCRI responsible researcher: Elise Sylvander (supervisor: Manfred Lehner)
    Grant from the Austria Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), DOC fellowship, ID – 26323
    Duration: 01/07/2022 to 01/07/2024
    https://ccri.at/doc-fellowship-recipient-elise-sylvander-develops-safety-system-for-car-t-cells/
  • MetLung, an innovative 3D lung metastasis model
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Heinrich Kovar
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) & Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), ID – P 35353
    Duration: 02/05/2022 to 01/05/2025
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/en
  • Mapping metastatic cancer by multi-modal imagine (MAPMET)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Sabine Taschner-Mandl
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Stand-Alone Project, ID – P 35841
    Duration: 01/05/2022 to 30/04/2026
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/en
  • Non-canonical STAT1 signaling in natural killer cells
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Eva König
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Stand-Alone project, ID – P 34832
    Duration: 01/01/2022 to 31/12/2025
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/en
  • Cracking the ribosome code of drug resistance in sarcomas
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Eleni Tomazou
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Thousand Ideas Project, ID – TAI 592
    Duration: 01/01/2022 to 31/10/2023
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/en
  • Decoding the epigenome and its regulation in neuroblastoma
    CCRI responsible researcher: Irfete Fetahu (supervisor: Sabine Taschner-Mandl)
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Stand-Alone Project, ID – P 35072
    Duration: 01/12/2021 to 30/11/2024
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/
  • Interplay of fusion genes and cellular context in sarcoma
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Eleni Tomazou
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Stand Alone Project, ID – P 34958
    Duration: 01/10/2021 to 30/09/2025
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/
  • Comprehensive cell contact tracing (C3T)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Florian Halbritter
    Additional CCRI Principal Investigators: Martin Distel
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), TAI-1000 Ideas Program, ID – TAI 454
    Duration: 01/09/2021 to 31/12/2022
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news-and-media-relations/news/detail/nid/20210707-0
  • Validation of a liquid biopsy based molecular diagnostic toolkit for pediatric sarcomas
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Eleni Tomazou
    Grant from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), Life Sciences 2020, ID – LS20-045
    Duration: 01/09/2021 to 31/08/2025
    https://www.wwtf.at/funding/programmes/ls/LS20-045/pdf/
  • How do leukemic cells escape natural killer cell-mediated surveillance?
    CCRI responsible researcher: Michelle Buri (supervisor: Eva König)
    Grant from the Austria Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), DOC fellowship, ID – 25905 
    Duration: 01/08/2021 to 31/08/2024
    https://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/stipendien/doc/doc-gefoerderte-personen
  • Establishing light-mediated clonal cancer models to investigate tumor initiation
    CCRI responsible researcher: Adam Varady (supervisor: Martin Distel)
    Grant from the Austria Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), DOC fellowship, ID – 25931
    Duration: 01/08/2021 to 31/01/2024
    https://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/stipendien/doc/doc-gefoerderte-personen
  • Characterization of bacterial-fungal interactions: a basis for discovery of microbial biomarkers (BacFun)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Thomas Lion
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Stand Alone Project, ID – P 34152
    Duration: 01/08/2021 to 31/07/2024
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/de/
  • Molecular mechanisms of exocytosis coordination
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Kaan Boztug
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Stand Alone Project, ID – 34834
    Duration: 01/07/2021 to 30/06/2024
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/de/
  • EWS-FLI1 fluctuations in Ewing Sarcoma
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Heinrich Kovar
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Stand Alone Project, ID – P 34341
    Duration: 01/04/2021 to 31/03/2024
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/de/news-presse/news/nachricht/nid/20211221-2710
  • Cold atmospheric plasma for viral decontamination
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Thomas Lion
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), CEUS Bilateral Joint Projects, ID – I 5293
    Duration: 01/04/2021 to 31/03/2024
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/
  • Crossroads of immunometabolism and human deficiency
    CCRI responsible researcher: Michael Kraakman (supervisor: Kaan Boztug)
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Lise Meitner Program, ID – M 3013
    Duration: 01/01/2021 to 28/02/2023
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/
  • Automated minimal residual disease assessment in childhood acute myeloid leukemia (MYEFLOW)
    CCRI responsible researcher: Margarita Maurer-Granofszky (Principal Investigator: Michael Dworzak)
    Grant from the Vienna Business Agency, From Science to Products 2019, ID – 2841342
    Duration: 15/03/2020 to 30/09/2024
    https://viennabusinessagency.at/
  • Identifying the Ewing Sarcoma cell-of-origin by cross-species enhancer activity analysis
    CCRI responsible researcher: Sarah Grissenberger (supervisor: Martin Distel)
    Grant from the Austria Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), DOC fellowship, ID – 25607
    Duration: 01/03/2020 to 01/09/2022
    https://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/stipendien/doc/doc-gefoerderte-personen
  • CD Laboratory for “Next generation CAR-T cells”
    Head of CD Laboratory and Coordinator: Manfred Lehner
    Christian Doppler Association, Christian Doppler Lab
    Duration: 01/11/2019 to 31/10/2026
    https://christian-doppler.ccri.at/
  • Advancing Liquid Biopsies for Monitoring and Personalized Treatment of Children with Neuroblastomas (LIQUIDHOPE)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Sabine Taschner-MandlCoordinator: Angelika Eggert, Charité, Germany
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), TRANSCAN-2 JTC 2020, ID – I 4162
    Duration: 01/04/2019 to 30/09/2022
    https://transcan.eu/output-results/funded-projects/liquidhope.kl
  • Find tumor immune evasion strategies by cellular barcoding
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Eva König
    Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Stand Alone Project, ID – P 32001
    Duration: 15/03/2019 to 14/09/2023
    https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/
  • Ultra-high-risk pediatric cancer – combinatorial drivers and therapeutic targets for precision medicine
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator and Coordinator: Sabine Taschner-Mandl
    Additional CCRI Principal Investigators: Ruth Ladenstein
    Grant from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), Life Sciences 2018, ID – LS18-111
    Duration: 01/03/2019 to 28/02/2024
    https://www.wwtf.at/funding/programmes/ls/LS18-111/
  • Characterizing and targeting the Ewing sarcoma microenvironment to overcome resistance to therapy
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator and Coordinator: Eleni Tomazou
    Grant from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), Life Sciences 2018, ID – LS18-049
    Duration: 01/03/2019 to 28/02/2023
    https://www.wwtf.at/funding/programmes/ls/LS18-049/

Internationally Funded Projects

  • High resolution dissection of non-coding determinants of disease (B-ALLeles)
    CCRI responsible researcher: Ana Patricia Kutschat (Supervisor: Davide Seruggia)
    HE- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship, Grant Agreement ID – 101061151
    Duration: 01/11/2022 to 31/10/2024
  • Towards an UNIque approach for artificial intelligence data-driven solutions to fight Childhood cAncer FOR Europe (UNICA4EU)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Ruth Ladenstein
    Coordinator: Samira Essiaf, SIOPE, Belgium
    Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions (PPPA), Grant Agreement ID – LC-01815952 / 101052609 UNICA4EU
    Duration: 01/07/2022 to 30/06/2023
  • European Reference Network on Paediatric Oncology – Year 6&7
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator and Coordinator: Ruth Ladenstein
    EU4Health Work Programme, Grant Agreement ID – 101085543
    Duration: 01/03/2022 to 31/08/2023
  • Modeling Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis with patient derived iPSCs
    CCRI responsible researcher: Giulio Abagnale (supervisor: Caroline Hutter)
    Histiocytosis Association
    Duration: 01/01/2022 to 31/12/2022
    https://histio.org/grants/modeling-langerhans-cell-histiocytosis-with-patient-derived-ipscs/
  • European Reference Network on Paediatric Cancer Connecting Facility-3
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator and Coordinator: Ruth Ladenstein
    EU-CEF Grant Agreement ID – INEA/CEF/ICT/A2020/2393583
    Duration: 01/09/2021 to 31/08/2023
    https://paedcan.ern-net.eu/
  • European rare disease research coordination and support action (ERICA)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Ruth Ladenstein
    Coordinator: Alberto Pereira, Leiden University Medical Center, the Nederlands,
    H2020 Grant Agreement ID –964908
    Duration: 01/03/2021 to 28/02/2025
    https://erica-rd.eu/about/governance/executive-committee/
  • Tracking Ewing sarcoma origin by developmental and trans-species genomics (ORIGIN)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator and Coordinator: Heinrich Kovar

    Additional CCRI Principal Investigators: Martin Distel, Florian Halbritter
    Alex´s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), Crazy 8 Initiative Award Program
    Duration: 01/03/2021 to 28/02/2025
    https://www.alexslemonade.org/

  • Functional Interrogation of Non-coding DNA Sequences in leukemia development and drug resistance (FIND-seq)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator and Awardee: Davide Seruggia
    H2020 Grant Agreement ID – 947803
    Duration: 01/03/2021 to 28/02/2026
    https://erc.europa.eu/
  • Implementing the digital survivorship passport to improve person-centered survivorship care (PanCareSurPass)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Ruth Ladenstein
    Coordinator: Desiree Grabow, Universitätsmedizin Mainz
    H2020 Grant Agreement ID – 899999
    Duration: 01/03/2021 to 28/02/2025
    https://www.pancaresurpass.eu/
  • Twinning research and education to improve survival in childhood solid tumors in Lithuania (TREL)
    CCRI responsible principal investigator: Ruth Ladenstein
    Coordinator: Jelena Rascon, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Lithuania
    H2020 Grant Agreement ID – 952438
    Duration: 01/01/2021 to 31/12/2023
    https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/952438
  • Validation of Actionable Genomic Aberrations in a Paediatric Oncology Network for Doctorate students (VAGABOND)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Heinrich Kovar
    Coordinator: Jan Molenaar, Prinses Máxima Centrum, the Netherlands
    H2020 Grant Agreement ID – 956285
    Duration: 01/12/2020 to 30/11/2024
    https://vagabondnetwork.com/
  • Integrated and standardized NGS workflows for Personalised therapy (INSTAND-NGS4P)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigators: Ruth Ladenstein, Kaan Boztug
    Coordinator: Kurt Zatloukal, Medical University Graz
    H2020 Grant Agreement ID – 874719
    Duration: 01/01/2020 to 31/05/2025
    https://www.instandngs4p.eu/
  • Charting key molecules and mechanisms of human immune Dysregulation (iDysChart)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator and Awardee: Kaan Boztug
    H2020 – ERC Consolidator Grant, Grant Agreement ID – 820074
    Duration 01/06/2019 to 31/05/2024
    https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/820074
  • Childhood Leukemia: Overcoming distance between South America and Europe Regions (CLOSER)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Sabine Strehl
    Coordinator: Mireia Camos, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Barcelona, Spain
    H2020 Grant Agreement ID – 825749
    Duration: 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2023
    https://closerleukemia.eu/
  • European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Ruth Ladenstein
    Coordinator: Daria Julkowska, Inserm, France
    H2020 Grant Agreement ID – 825575
    Duration: 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2023
    https://www.ejprarediseases.org/
  • PRedictive In-silico Multiscale Analytics (PRIMAGE)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Ruth Ladenstein
    Coordinator: Luis Martí-Bonmatí, La Fe, Spain
    H2020 Grant Agreement ID – 826494
    Duration: 01/12/2018 to 30/11/2022
    https://www.primageproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/03/PRIMAGE-A1.pdf
  • ITCC Pediatric Preclinical POC Platform (ITCCP4)
    CCRI responsible Principal Investigator: Heinrich Kovar
    Coordinator: Stefan Pfister, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum DKFZ, Germany
    EU-IMI Grant Agreement ID – 116064
    Duration: 01/01/2017 to 31/12/2022
    https://www.itccp4.eu/