Grants and awards

Author(s) Project title Award Amount
Raaijmakers, Pieterse, Medema et al. Unwiring beneficial functions and regulatory networks in the plant endosphere NWO-Groot 3M€
Testerink Plant stress resilience: Think global, act local Vici 1.5M€
Kiers Flows, Structure and Trading in Fungal Networks Vici 1.5M€
Kiers Mapping Biodiversity of the Earth’s Mycorrhizal Networks Grantham Foundation & Schmidt Family Foundation 6M€
Raaijmakers Matrix-Microbiome-associated Triticale Resilience in X-dimensions Novo Nordisk Foundation 1.2M€
Pieterse, Berendsen et al. Breeding for coffee and cocoa root resilience in low input farming systems based on improved rootstocks Horizon Europe BOLERO 8M€
Pieterse NA Spinoza prize 2.5M€
Medema Tapping the potential of plant chemistry through computation Vidi 0.8M€
Bouwmeester Engineering of low germination stimulant production to control witchweed infection in maize in Sub-Saharan Africa ERC PoC 150k€
Kokkoris Nuclear MIX ERC starting grant 1.5M€
Dutilh Modelling and predicting microbiome functioning and dynamics Alexander von Humboldt Professor 3.5M€
Bouwmeester, Smilde, Dong, Heintz-Buschart et al. Healthy from soil to gut: the effect of the soil microbiome on human health (MicroHealth) NWO-KIC Microbiome 2M€
Medema, Raaijmakers et al. Precision medicine for agriculture: harnessing peptide-producing microbiota for sustainable crop protection NWO-KIC Microbiome 2M€
Raaijmakers Promise 2 the use of the microbiome to control Striga Gates Foundation 6M US$
Testerink, Pieterse et al. CROP-XR National Growthfund 70M€
Kiers NA Spinoza prize 2.5M€
Kloth Rapid defense strategies of plants against aphids Vidi 0.8M€
Dong Decoding a Hybrid Language Between the Plant and Microbe Kingdoms (DECODE) Vidi 0.8M€
Bouwmeester, Pieterse, Kiers, Bergman et al. Holomicrobiome National Growthfund 200M€