Two prominent early career researchers awarded 30 million SEK

 

The two researchers are Ana Sofia Luís from Gothenburg University and Eszter Lakatos from Chalmers University.

 

The Swedish Foundation’s Starting Grant, SFSG, is a collaboration between seven private research funders who strongly believe in supporting early career researchs who have the potential to become leading researchers in their fields. The call targets researchers, based in Sweden, who received the highest score on their ERC Starting Grant application but were not funded due to the limited budget of ERC.

 

Funded applications in the call 2025

• Ana Sofia Luís (Gothenburg University) will receive funding from the Erling-Persson Foundations for the project ”Unravelling the mechanisms of microbiota-human mucin interactions.”.
• Eszter Lakatos (Chalmers University) will receive funding from the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation for the project “Re-defining cancer immunogenicity on the systems level”.

 

– With this call we are providing the researchers with an opportunity to do ground breaking research. We hope that the SFSG grant will give the a head start that will allow them to become successful in coming ERC calls. Says  Anna Wetterbom, CEO for the  Ragnar Söderberg Foundation and coordinator of SFSG.