Press Release No. 15
Berlin
ERC Advanced Grant for Professor Thomas Willnow
Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Are Major Risk Factors for Alzheimer`s Disease - Professor Thomas Willnow of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, has been granted 2,4 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) in Strasbourg, France, for the next five years. He was one of 284 top researchers in Europe, who received this prestigious ERC Advanced Research Grant in 2013. Overall the ERC has received 2 408 applications for this grant.