Patrick Manser

Postdoctoral Researcher in Technology-enhanced Training for Brain Health

Funding


Overview:

Role: Funding Volume Secured: Funding [equivalent in €*]:
Main Applicant / PI: CHF 539 560 € 585 500
Co-Applicant: SEK 800 000 € 73 500
Project Partner: CHF 2 500 € 2 500
Total: € 661 500
* Rounded to € 500 increments to avoid fluctuations in the total amount of funding secured due to exchange rate fluctuations.


As Main Applicant / Principal Investigator (PI):

06.2026:
Project Grant (0385/2026) for the project “Exergame as Medicine: AI-Powered Human-in-the-Loop Algorithms for Efficient Dementia Prevention”; granted by Vontobel Foundation.

Co-Applicant:          Prof. Dr. Eling D. de Bruin (Co-PI)
Funding Volume:     CHF 399’560 (~ € 433 500*).

06.2026:
BRIDGE Proof of Concept Fellowship Grant (40B1-0_242682) for the project “Bringing ‘Brain-IT’ Exergames into Practice for the Digital Transformation of Dementia Prevention”; granted by BRIDGE (joint program by the Swiss National Science Foundation and Innosuisse).

Funding Volume:            CHF 130’000 (~ € 141 000*).

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04.2025:
Blue Sky Grant
(Dnr 2025-01126) for the research project “Worth the Effort? Rethinking Best Practices for Co-Developing Technology-Enhanced Training - A Proof-of-Concept Study” as part of the Call for Funding for Research in Health Care Sciences 2025 of the Strategic Research Area Health Care Science (SFO-V) at Karolinska Institutet.

Main Applicant: Prof. Dr. Erika Franzén
Co-Applicant: Myself
Funding Volume = SEK 800 000 (~ € 73 500*). 

As Project Partner:

07.2022:
PPI Preparatory Grant (Nr. 33IC30_213958) for the grant application “TRAIN-IT - TRAINing of cognitive reserve in institutionalized older adults with mild to major neurocognitive disorder using Information Technology added to usual care – a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled superiority trial” as part of the Call for Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials (IICT) of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Main Applicant: Prof. Dr. Eling D. de Bruin
Co-Applicant: Prof. Dr. Steffen Heinrich 
Project Partner: Myself 
Funding Volume: CHF 2 500 (~ € 2 500*).