Lectures and seminars ERC funding: Opportunities for clinical research and clinician-researchers

23-09-2026 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Add to iCal
Campus Solna Wallenbergsalen, Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1

A lunch seminar focusing on how clinical research aligns with ERCs funding opportunities. Speakers will include ERC Scientific Council Vice-President and Clinical Professor Liselotte Højgaard and Senior Strategy and Research Policy Advisor Dr Elisabeth Corcelle Termeau, in addition to clinician-researchers at KI who have been awarded an ERC grant.

The seminar will be held in English.

Moderator
Maria Eriksdotter, Advisor to KI president, Professor, Karolinska Institutet

Programme

11:30 - 11:35  Welcome 
Maria Eriksdotter, Advisor to KI president, Professor, Karolinska Institutet

11:35 - 11:55  ERC – relevant for life science and medicine
Liselotte Højgaard, ERC Scientific Council Vice-President and Clinical Professor        

11:55 - 12:10  Navigating ERC Opportunities for Hospital-Based Clinician Researchers 
Elisabeth Corcelle Termeau, Senior Strategy and Research Policy Advisor

12:10 - 12:30  ERC Success stories: KI researchers present their ERC funded projects 
Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, Professor, Senior Physician
ERC Advanced Grant 2025: Innovative Solutions for Pregnancy Intervention and Regulation:Translating Endometrial Science into Contraceptive Innovation and Ectopic Pregnancy Treatment (INSPIRE)

Gustaf Edgren, Principal Researcher, Docent
ERC Consolidator Grant 2024: Advanced Studies in Transfusion Epidemiology: Using ‘Big Data’ to safeguard the blood supply of the future (ASTUTE) 

12:30 - 13:00 Panel Discussion and Q&A 
Liselotte Højgaard, Elisabeth Corcelle Termeau, Kristina Gemzell Danielsson and Gustaf Edgren 

13:00 - 13.30 Mingle & Sandwiches
An opportunity for attendees to ask question to speakers, KI Grants Office ERC advisors and Sweden's National Contact Point for ERC Anethe Mansén (VR)
 

Contact

Rose-Marie Karlsson
+46852486699
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Jodie Elizabeth Guy Claesson
+46852486959
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