The Advanced Grants are awarded to support excellent and innovative research performed or led by established and wold leading research leaders.
Leif Groop researches about genetic causes to Type 2 Diabetes. The project for which he receivs the award for is called "General and targeted approaches to reveal the molecular causes of type 2 diabetes".
- To get this large grant intended only for your own research is fantastic. It means freedom to perform exact the research you wish to and you avoid the extensive bureaucracy which often comes along together with the large projects where many will cooperate, comments Leif Groop.
Patrik Brundin researches about mechanisms about sickness at Parkinson´s disease, and the project is called "Prion-like transmission of o-synuclein in Parkinson´s disease".
-It is extremely stimulating and gratifying to receive this award! It gives me an opportunity to invest long-term in some high risk projects whioch I have great belief in, says Patrik Brundin.
As a total, ERC gives away 260 Advanced Grants this round, eleven of them were given to researchers who are active in Sweden. Totally 2009 applications were received of which 75 came from reserachers active in Sweden.