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Patrick Manser
Visionary Researcher on “Exergame as Medicine”

Curriculum vitae



Science thrives on collaboration and critical discussion. If you're curious to learn more about my work, open to engaging with my mission, or interested in building a shared vision, I’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch via email (see above) or through one of the platforms below.



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 (a joint funding scheme by the Swiss National Science Foundation and Innosuisse).

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

05.2026:
Venture Kick Stage 1 Grant (project number 1319-26) for the startup in formation “XrGamed GmbH”; granted by the Kick Foundation, Fonds Venture Kick

Funding Volume: CHF 10 000 (~ € 11 000*).

As Co-Applicant:

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 project 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 so support PPI in full grant proposal preparation.

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

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