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Three researchers in Sweden to receive an ERC Proof of concept grant

It has now been decided who will recieve an ERC Proof of concept grant in the second round of the second call 2022. Three of the researches awarded the grant is affiliated to a Swedish university.

The ERC Proof of Concept funding is made available to those who already have an ERC award, and will cover activities at the very early stage of turning research outputs into a commercial or socially valuable proposition.

In 2022, two calls will take place. The second call, ERC PoC2, has a total of three deadlines. Now the results from the second round have arrived.

55 researchers from 14 different countries were awarded this grant, worth 150 000 euro. Three of those are affiliated to a Swedish university.

University of Gothenburg

Gunnar C Hansson: MUC2GO, Novel treatments for the mucus accumulation at chronic lung diseases

Lund University

Per Augustsson: TAPAS, Taking blood apart by sound

Karolinska Institutet

Adam Williamson: TREATMENT, Targeting peripheral nerves: a method for therapeutic modulation of inflammatory disease with non-invasive temporal interference

The ERC website has more statistics and a list of all the grant recipients External link.

The next deadline for ERC PoC2 is 29 September 2022. External link.

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