Dr. Wolfgang Hoyer is the recipient of one of the prestigious Consolidator Grants of the European Research Council ERC. For his project "BETACONTROL" the ERC will now provide 2 Million Euro in funding over a timeframe of five years. More than 2300 scientists from all over Europe had applied. Dr. Hoyer leads a research group at the Institut fü Physikalische Biologie and at the Institute of Complex Systems (ICS-6) at Forschungszentrum Jülich.