Mathieu Groussin receives ERC grant for innovative gut microbiome research

European Research Council funds research project at Kiel University to investigate the role of bacterial extracellular vesicles in gut ecology and health with two million euros

The European Research Council (ERC) is funding the project “VESICULOME: Origin, evolution and function of bacterial extracellular vesicles in the human host-gut microbiome system” at Kiel University, as was recently announced. Over the next five years, Professor Mathieu Groussin from the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB) at the Faculty of Medicine at Kiel University and the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Kiel Campus, and his research team will be able to investigate how so-called bacterial extracellular vesicles (BEV) influence the human gut microbiome and thus health and disease. Professor Groussin is a principal investigator in the second funding phase of miTarget (project 2, phase 2).

The research project, which starts on June 1st, is dedicated to BEV, to date a little-researched component of the microbiome, whose influence on the composition and interactions of the microbial community in the intestine is barely known. Groussin has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to investigate these relationships, which includes funding of around two million euros. This topic links various research consortia and institutions at Kiel University and UKSH, including the Cluster of Excellence “Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation (PMI)”, the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1182 “Origin and Function of Metaorganisms” and “miTarget”.

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