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The Excellent Science pillar aims to increase the EU’s global scientific competitiveness. It supports frontier research projects defined and driven by top researchers themselves through the European Research Council, funds fellowships for experienced researchers, doctoral training networks and exchanges for researchers through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and invests in world-class research infrastructures

Open Letter

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Towards personalized medicine by mathematical modeling of tumors

Authors: Dániel András Drexler, Levente Kovács, Gheorghe Moza

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Adriana Buica, Andrea De Gaetano

Published: May 18, 2022
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Comparative study on scenarios for rotating gantry mechanical structures

Authors: Luca Piacentini, Luca Dassa, Diego Perini, Andris Ratkus, Toms Torims, Stefano Uberti, Janis Vilcans, Maurizio Vretenar

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Alexander Gerbershagen, Claire Antoine

Published: October 7, 2024
Essay
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Non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19 in the UK and Spain: a rapid realist review

Authors: Pilar Serrano-Gallardo, Ana Manzano, Ray Pawson

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Axel Kaehne, Frans Leeuw

Published: August 26, 2022
Software Tool Article
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preCICE v2: A sustainable and user-friendly coupling library

Authors: Gerasimos Chourdakis, Kyle Davis, Benjamin Rodenberg, Miriam Schulte, Frédéric Simonis, Benjamin Uekermann, Georg Abrams, Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Lucia Cheung Yau, Ishaan Desai, Konrad Eder, Richard Hertrich, Florian Lindner, Alexander Rusch, Dmytro Sashko, David Schneider, Amin Totounferoush, Dominik Volland, Peter Vollmer, Oguz Ziya Koseomur

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Axelle Viré, Garth Wells

Published: September 30, 2022
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Participant recruitment among vulnerable populations: An experience from a qualitative study among refugee adolescents in Germany

Authors: Marjan Mohammadzadeh, Asra Taras, Christiane Stock

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Maura Dowling, Pilar SERRANO-GALLARDO, Todd Davies

Published: November 7, 2023
Research Article

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Mapping the landscapes of the Stalinist mass repressions

Authors: Judith Pallot, Sofya Gavrilova

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Gavin Slade, Susan Grunewald

Published: April 7, 2022
Brief Report
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Local brain-state dependency of effective connectivity: a pilot TMS–EEG study

Authors: Ida Granö, Tuomas P. Mutanen, Aino Tervo, Jaakko O. Nieminen, Victor H. Souza, Matteo Fecchio, Mario Rosanova, Pantelis Lioumis, Risto J. Ilmoniemi

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Florinda Ferreri, Keiichi Kitajo

Published: July 11, 2022
Software Tool Article
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Qudi-HiM: an open-source acquisition software package for highly multiplexed sequential and combinatorial optical imaging

Authors: Franziska Barho, Jean-Bernard Fiche, Marion Bardou, Olivier Messina, Alexandre Martiniere, Christophe Houbron, Marcelo Nollmann

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Ricardo Henriques, Romain Laine

Published: July 19, 2022
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Complicity at a distance: commemorating problematic involvement in perpetration in contemporary Central and Eastern European literatures

Authors: Juliane Prade-Weiss

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Johannes D KAMINSKI, Magdalena Zolkos, Tobias Heinrich

Published: May 25, 2022
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Osmium and OsO x nanoparticles: an overview of syntheses and applications

Authors: Jonathan Quinson

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Michael Nolan, Shaojun Guo

Published: August 1, 2022
Study Protocol
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Efficacy and safety of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy in hematologic malignancies: a living systematic review (protocol)

Authors: Leire Leache, Marta Gutiérrez Valencia, Luis Carlos Saiz, Juan Erviti, Maria Ximena Rojas Reyes

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: LaQuisa Hill, Lee Greenberger, le wang

Published: May 21, 2024
Open Letter

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From P4 medicine to P5 medicine: transitional times for a more human-centric approach to AI-based tools for hospitals of tomorrow

Authors: Denise Amram, Arianna Cignoni, Tommaso Banfi, Gastone Ciuti

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Industrial Leadership

Peer reviewers: Gabriele Tolomei, Giorgia Bincoletto

Published: March 9, 2022
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Nonlinear field-control of terahertz waves in random media for spatiotemporal focusing

Authors: Vittorio Cecconi, Vivek Kumar, Alessia Pasquazi, Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora, Marco Peccianti

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Romain PERETTI, SILVIA GENTILINI

Published: February 13, 2023
Research Article

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Research avenues for amplifying Indigenous radio

Authors: Katie Moylan

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Caroline Mitchell, Paul Long

Published: March 4, 2022
Data Note
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Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Galicia in Northeastern Europe, 1805-1905

Authors: Martin Anegg, Julia Prakofjewa, Raivo Kalle, Renata Sõukand

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Inga Sile, Irene Teixidor Toneu

Published: September 13, 2022
Essay
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Defining discovery: Is Google Scholar a discovery platform? An essay on the need for a new approach to scholarly discovery

Authors: Kelly Achenbach, Marta Błaszczyńska, Stefano De Paoli, Francesca Di Donato, Suzanne Dumouchel, Paula Forbes, Peter Kraker, Michela Vignoli

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Jefferson Pooley, ROBERTA BRACCIALE

Published: June 7, 2022
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Identifying entrepreneurial discovery processes with weak and strong technology signals: a text mining approach

Authors: Levan Bzhalava, Jari Kaivo-oja, Sohaib S. Hassan, Wolfgang Dieter Gerstlberger

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Hugo Pinto, Muhammad Ali

Published: November 1, 2022
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“Frenemies” of innovation: understanding the role of coopetition in service innovation in emerging markets

Authors: Sohaib S. Hassan, Abiodun Egbetokun, Levan Bzhalava

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Elvis Korku Avenyo, Shoaib Abdul Basit

Published: June 21, 2022
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Fluorescent reporter of Caenorhabditis elegans Parkin: Regulators of its abundance and role in autophagy-lysosomal dynamics

Authors: Roman Vozdek, Bingying Wang, Kathy H. Li, Peter P. Pramstaller, Andrew A. Hicks, Dengke K. Ma

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Anat Ben-ZVi, Prashant Mishra

Published: September 15, 2023
Study Protocol
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Fecal microbiota transplantation for treatment of moderate to severe ulcerative colitis: a living systematic review protocol

Authors: Andrea Correa-Pérez, Jorge de Vicente Guijarro, Andrea Gaetano Gil, Juan Ocaña Jiménez, Raquel Luengo González, David Rigau Comas, Josefina Bendersky, María Ximena Rojas Reyes, María Nieves Plana Farrás

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Andrés Gempeler, Hector Pardo-Hernandez

Published: May 3, 2022
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Towards ethical good practice in cash transfer trials and their evaluation

Authors: Neil Howard

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Karl Widerquist, Maria Elisa Balen

Published: March 21, 2022
Research Article
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First steps towards the detection of contact layers in Bangime: a multi-disciplinary, computer-assisted approach

Authors: Abbie Hantgan, Hiba Babiker, Johann-Mattis List

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Laura McPherson, Rebecca Grollemund

Published: April 22, 2022
Research Article

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Alternative Types of Ambiguity and their Effects on Climate Change Regulation

Authors: Phoebe Koundouri, Nikitas Pittis, Panagiotis Samartzis, Nikolaos Englezos, Andreas Papandreou

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: John Beirne, Laurent Li, marcela brugnach

Published: January 21, 2022
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Review of the research programme on the Mortella III wreck (2010-2020, Corsica, France): A contribution to the knowledge of the Mediterranean naval architecture and material culture of the Renaissance.

Authors: Arnaud Cazenave de la Roche, Fabrizio Ciacchella, Fabien Langenegger, Max Guérout, Marco Milanese, Ana Crespo Solana

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: José Bettencourt, Marcel Pujol i Hamelink, Niklas Eriksson

Published: May 18, 2022
Method Article
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Inhibition of vacuum sublimation artefacts for (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy ((S)TEM) of sulphur samples via encapsulation

Authors: Oskar Ronan, Clive Downing, Valeria Nicolosi

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Andrew Stewart, Toma Susi

Published: February 1, 2022