Eight years after its launch, the European Research Council (ERC) is celebrating a significant milestone: the funding of its 5,000th researcher. This happens to be Iva Tolic, former MPI-CBG group leader. Iva, now Senior Scientist and Research Group Leader at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, will use the grant to study the forces acting on the chromosomes during cell division.
Congratulations from the MPI-CBG!
Dr Iva Tolić started her career at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, where she obtained her PhD in Biology. Between 1999 and 2001 she did a PhD work in Harvard School of Public Health, in the USA. She also did consecutive post-docs in Denmark and Italy following her desire to master laser techniques for cutting inside cells. Between 2005 and 2015, Tolić was Research Group Leader at the MPI-CBG.
With her ERC Consolidator Grant, she decided to move back to Croatia: "I applied for an ERC grant because it is the best and the biggest research grant for basic science in Europe. Thanks to this funding, I am now able to buy state-of-the-art equipment for my lab and to set my own new research team in Croatia, back where all started."