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Three promising LU researchers awarded with ERC Starting Grants

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Published 8 September 2025
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Jacob Vogel, Camila Consiglio and Johan Miörner (Images: Ingemar Hultquist and Christian Andersson)

Infertility, Alzheimer’s disease and decentralised infrastructure. These are the research areas of the three researchers at Lund University who are receiving a total of SEK 50 million in funding from the ERC.

The researchers are human geographer Johan Miörner, Camila Consiglio, researcher in systems immunology, and Jacob Vogel, who studies neurodegenerative diseases. Read more about their research projects below.

The ERC Starting Grants 

ERC Starting Grants are awarded to promising researchers at the beginning of their careers. Since the grant was first introduced in 2007, Lund University has received 54 grants, including the three newly awarded ones.

This year, the EU is awarding 8.4 billion SEK to 478 researchers across Europe. German universities and research institutes received the most grants (99), followed by the United Kingdom (60), the Netherlands (44), and France (41). 

Read the article at lunduniversity.lu.se: Three promising researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants

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