Research grant from the Synapsis Foundation, Dementia Research Switzerland (CHF 300.000)

Project: Optogenetic-induced mitochondrial injury in tauopathy: impact on mitochondria transfer between astrocytes and neurons

Research grant from the Novartis FreeNovation (CHF 180.000)

Project: Mitochondrial transplantation as a therapeutic approach in tauopathies

Research grant from the Novartis Foundation for Medical-biological Research (CHF 80.000)

Project: Abnormal tau impacts on the endoplasmic reticulum - mitochondria coupling and mitochondrial cholesterol metabolism: a translational study

Research grant from the Research Fund of University of Basel (Universität Basel Forschungsfonds) (CHF 80.000).

Project: Intracellular cholesterol homeostasis in tauopathies: role of the ER-mitochondria coupling.

Career Development Award from the Synapsis Foundation, Alzheimer research in Switzerland (CHF 200.000).

Project: The role of the endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria coupling in Tau-related neurodegenerative diseases.

Early Postdoc.Mobility Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), # P2BSP3_172045 (CHF 50.500).

Project: Dissecting the dendritic function of Tau protein and the Src kinase FYN, two proteins implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.

Public vote winner, Queensland Brain Institute Art in Neuroscience competition 2017 for “The Manta ray in coral reef”.

• Travel fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation, Conference: Beyond Amyloid - Widening the View on Alzheimer's Disease, Hanover, Germany October 10-11, 2016.

• ICBEM Grant Award: Sex hormone-specific modulation of amyloid-β and Tau-induced mitochondrial dysfunction: Relevance for Alzheimer’s disease, 12th International Conference on Brain Energy Metabolism, Hong Kong, China, May 25-28, 2016.

• “Antelope professorship 2016": Enrolled in the competitive program for the career development of female researchers of the University of Basel.

• Thesis prize 2015 of the “Association des Amis des Universités de l’Accadémie de Strasbourg” for the PhD work: Mitochondria, Neurosteroids and Biological Rhythms: implications in health and disease states.

• Thesis prize 2015 of the Society of Biology of Strasbourg for the PhD work: Mitochondria, Neurosteroids and Biological Rhythms: implications in health and disease states.

• Seahorse Travel Award (Seahorse Bioscience): Dissecting the effect of neurosteroids in Alzheimer’s disease: modulation of Aβ and Tau-induced mitochondrial dysfunction. 12th International Conference on Alzheimer´s and Parkinson´s Diseases, Nice, France, March 18-22, 2015

• ECNP Travel Award: Effects of neuroactive steroids on cellular bioenergetics. European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Workshop for Junior Scientists in Europe, March 6-3, 2014

• Award of the «Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg» for the best short communication, section Neuroscience: Estradiol metabolism and mitochondrial function in Alzheimer’s disease. 1st Scientific meeting of the «Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg» (FMTS), June 13-14, 2013

•  Travel Award (Seahorse Bioscience): Amyloid-β Binding Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ABAD), estradiol and mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease. 11th International Conference on Alzheimer´s and Parkinson´s Diseases, Florence, Italy, March 6-10, 2013

• Society for Research on Biological Rhythms Research Merit Award: Mitochondrial Activity: From genes to function. 13th Biennial Meeting of Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, Destin, Florida, USA, May 19-24, 2012