ERC Proof of Concepts grants are awarded by the European Research Council to recipients to explore the innovative potential of their scientific discoveries. After , two researchers from Institut Curie and a researcher from ESPCI Paris are winners this year.
- Costantino Creton, research director at CNRS in the SIMM laboratory and Dean of research at for the . The project studies materials close to rupture, using molecular markers and non-invasive optical imaging techniques.
- Yohanns Bellaïche, leader of the team Polarity, Division and Morphogenesis at . Based on a , the ERC POC 2020 O-NEAT project will develop another program that can learn to recognize other interesting biological phenomena.
- Jean-Louis Viovy, research director emeritus at CNRS Laboratoire Physico-Chimie of (UMR 168 CNRS / Institut Curie). He and will now develop the process with the ERC-POC ERC-POC COMMiT project, supported partly by the microfluidics service of the