Three researchers in Sweden to receive ERC-2024-Proof of Concept Grant DL1

The ERC Proof of Concept Grant 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. The grant amount is 150 000 euro.

ERC-2024-PoC has a total of two deadlines. Now the results from the first round have arrived. 100 researchers from 17 different countries were awarded. Three of those are affiliated to a Swedish university.

Approved research projects from the first deadline

Karolinska Institutet

• Georgios Sotiriou med projektet, PHOTOCURE, Nanoengineered photoactivated drug-free antimicrobial precision treatment for chronic skin wounds

Lunds universitet

• Per Augustsson med projektet BLOODFLOW, Acoustic whole blood imaging flow cytometry for rare cell identification
• Filipe Pereira med projektet DART, Driving tumour antigen presentation by RNA-mediated transdifferentiation

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

Next deadline for ERC Proof of Concept Grant 17 September 2024 External link.