The organisation
ARTTIC assists clients from all business and research sectors, small and large, private and public, to ensure the success of their collaborative research & innovation ventures. During close to 32 years of success, ARTTIC developed and demonstrated expertise in the set-up and management of to date 400 large-scale ambitious projects of which 96 were successful under H2020 calls. Based on its long-standing experience in a range of funding programmes across scientific and technological domains, ARTTIC helps clients to move from strategic plans to effective competitive research and development of innovative solutions, resulting in successful applications and businesses. ARTTIC is a company of the PNO Consultants group, the European leader for consultancy in innovation and funding.In EpimiRNA, ARTTIC supports the project coordinator in the operational project management tasks as well as dissemination activities.
Key staff involved in the project
Kathrin Suttner is a Project Manager specialized in EU research projects. She is expert in contractual management, project controlling and reporting, finance controlling and reporting, communication and dissemination activities. Kathrin studied biochemistry at the Technical University Munich and did her PhD in the field of asthma and allergy genetics. After working as a labmanager, PostDoc and a group leader, she became a project manager to follow her interest on scientific management.
Sara Skogsater, Senior Consultant, joined ARTTIC in January 2005. In particular, she has worked on proposals and projects within the theme Health and Life sciences in different research areas such as RNAi, toxicology, stem cells, iPSCs, drug development, infectious diseases, oncology, neurodegenerative diseases and neural injury.
Sara advises and manages all aspects related to the building and management of a collaborative project, such as the collaborative design, the proposal writing, the budget setup, the operational, financial and contractual follow-up once the project started, the consortium management and the communication and reporting towards the European Commission. The quality of her work has been recognised notably by the ESNATS (FP7) consortium who officially acknowledges her excellent coordination capabilities in one of their scientific publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3535399/
Sara holds a Master of Science in International Business from the Gothenburg School of Economics and Commerical Law, Sweden.