European biotechs receive €4.55m grant from Eurostars

Published: 11-Oct-2012

To develop anti-infection medicine


A consortium involving two European biotech companies has secured a €4.55m grant from the EU’s Eurostars funding programme to develop groundbreaking anti-infection medicine.

Eurostars is a joint programme between EU research network Eureka and the European Commission, and the first European research-funding programme dedicated to small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

This latest grant will be used by the Klebiscure research project, led by Vienna-based start-up Arsanis. Other consortium members include Germany’s GATC Biotech, the Max Planck Institute and the Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Wroclaw, Poland.

The grant will help accelerate the speed of the project, said Eszter Nagy, chief scientific officer at Arsanis.

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