Veni grant – € 250,000

• Camila Correa (STRW) – Do dark matter particles interact with each other? 
• Max van Duijn (LIACS) – A telling story: how children develop as storytellers and mindreaders   
• Stéphanie van der Pas (MI) – Are you sure you didn't miss something?
• Sergii Pud (LION) – Molecular ping-pong to study proteins
• Mónica Varela Álvarez (IBL) – Conquering the tuberculosis fortress
• Joseph Callingham (STRW) – Life around a radio star
• Melissa McClure (STRW) – Jumpstarting life on terrestrial planets

Vidi grant – € 800,000

• Alessandra Silvestri (STRW) – Lighting up Einstein’s Dark Universe
• Sander Wezenberg (LIC) – Teaching synthetic molecules how to communicate
• Tim van Erven (MI) – Automatic faster learning for artificial intelligence

Vici grant – € 1.5 million

• Jeroen Codée (LIC) – Sweet reaction mechanisms
• Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) – Blocking cancer proteins with metallodrugs and light 

TOP grant – € 249,000

• Matthijs van Leeuwen (LIACS) – Human-Guided Data Science by Interactive Model Selection

Physics Projectruimte

• Jan Aarts (LION) – Spin texture Josephson junctions
• Vadim Cheianov (LION) – Slow as light, fast as a snail

Rubicon

• Valeriya Korol (STRW) – Listening to Einstein’s invisible waves from the Milky Way

Comenius programme

• Ludo Juurlink (LIC) receives € 250,000 for 'Studying Mobile' and becomes a Leadership Fellow
• Fred Janssen (ICLON) receives € 100,000 for 'Research-driven learning for large groups' and becomes a Senior Fellow

Science KLEIN-1 – up to € 350,000

• Dennis Claessen (IBL) – Do cells without a cell wall play a role in chronic tuberculosis infections?
• Carlo Beenakker (LION) – Quantum Hall physics in a Weyl superconductor

Living labs in the Dutch delta

• The Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) is involved in the Dutch project C-SHAPE, which received 1 million euros

Research along Routes by Consortia (ORC)

• Peter Klinkhamer (IBL) leads the project 'Self Defense: Mimicking natural deterrent strategies in plants using adhesive spheres and volatiles', which received 1.4 million euros
• Maarten Schrama (CML) is involved in the project 'Preparing for vector-borne virus outbreaks in a changing world: a One Health Approach', which received 9 million euros
• Tjerk Oosterkamp (LION) is involved in the project 'Quantum microscopy: A new tool for future technologies', which received 1.4 million euros
• LIACS is involved in the project CORTEX, which received 5 million euros

Idea Generator – € 50,000

• Lucia Bossoni and Martina Huber (LION) – Is air pollution behind dementia? Unraveling the origin of magnetite nanoparticles in the brain
• Joost Beltman (LACDR) – Integration of machine learning and mechanistic models to analyse network dynamics
• Yasmine Abouleila (LACDR) – Disease biomarker detection for Ebola and Lassa virus induced vasculopathy 
• Daniel Rozen (IBL) – Experimental evolution of beneficial soil microbiomes

Dekker grant – € 427,000

• Amanda Foks receives the Dekker grant from the Dutch Hartstichting

ERC Consolidator Grant – € 2 million

• Simcha Jong Kon Chin (LIACS) – International consortia: the future for science?

ERC Advanced Grant – € 2 million

• Carlo Beenakker (LION) – Majorana fermions in superconductors

Proof of Concept Grant 

• Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) receives 150,000 euros for research into light-activated chemotherapy

• Agur Sevink (LIC), Willie Peijnenburg, and Martina Vijver (CML) are involved in the European project NanoInformatics, which received 6.8 million euros 
• Herman Spaink (IBL) is involved in the international consortium RespiriTB/RespiriNTM, which received 18 million euros from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

• Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) and Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR) are involved in the project LogicLab, which received 3.5 million euros
• Michael Emmerich, Frank Takes and Suzan Verberne (LIACS) are involved in RISE_SMA, which received 1,168,400 euros

Coordination and Support Actions – € 1 million

• Huub de Groot (LIC) coordinates the international consortium SUNRISE

FET Open 

• Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) is part of the consortium SoFiA, which received 3.2 million euros

• Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR) is involved in the project DuSRA-VOILA, which received 8.5 million euros

Den Dulk-Moermans Fund – € 25,000

• Frédérique Kok (LACDR) – The mastermind research approach to crack the code for Alzheimer’s disease: contribution of cytokines

• Valeriya Korol (STRW) has been awarded the Gruber Foundation Fellowship 2019 of 25,000 dollars
• The Leiden Hortus botanicus has received an inheritance of 5 million euros from the estate of Carla van Steijn
• Alireza Mashaghi (LACDR) receives the Personal Grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association
• Rychard Bouwens (STRW) has been assigned a Large Programme from ALMA