Almost €2 million in funding for Münster virologist

Dr. Mario Schelhaas from Münster University has seen off the competition to receive a grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The grant, worth up to two million euros, is particularly prestigious. Mario Schelhaas is a virologist and biochemist at the Institute of Molecular Virology and the Institute of Medical Biochemistry. He is also a group leader at the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence at Münster University. In awarding the grant, the ERC will be providing 1.9 million euros of funding for his research for the next five years. "This support means I can take my research to the next level," says Schelhaas. He and his team work out the infection processes of viruses.