Dr. Marina Bisgono will join the project titled "European Vehicle Taxation, VTAX - Project ID: 101024306" where she will work under the supervision of the Professor of Financial and Tax Law Marta Villar.  Research will be conducted on transport taxation,  specifically on developing the bases that allow favoring the adoption of a revised model of land transport taxation that preferably takes into account the vector of sustainability and new technological trends.

Meanwhile, the Faculty of Pharmacy will welcome Dr. Mateusz Dasko to the project titled "Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of PROteolysis-TArgeting Chimeric (PROTAC) molecules as anticancer agents, PROTACs - Project ID: 101031883". This research is oriented to the developing of drugs with antitumor activity by degrading proteins. The project management team will be led by Doctors Beatriz de Pascual-Teresa and Irene Ortín Remón.

It should be noted that these two MSCA-IF places have been obtained in the 2020 call, which has received the highest participation of the entire H2020 Program - 11,573 proposals forwarded to the Research Executive Agency (REA). Applications this year represent an increase of 17% compared to those in 2019with the European Commission allocating 328 million euros to financing 1,630 projects.

This year, the University's success rate has been the highest since the Office of International Research Projects, from the Vice-Rector's Office for Teaching and Research, supported participation in this Program. Thus, these two projects bring to five the total of MSCA-IF actions achieved by USPCEU in the H2020 Program.

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie-IF grants aim to train and recruit experienced research staff to carry out individual projects lasting 12 to 36 months, within an international and inter-sectoral framework.