NEURO awarded over 48 MSEK in research grants from the Swedish Research Council
Ten researchers at the Department of Neuroscience were collectively awarded over 48.7 Million Swedish Kronor when the Swedish Research Council made decisions on calls within Medicine and Health as well as Humanities and Social Sciences for 2024.
Medicine and Health
Anders Borgkvist
"Targeting dysregulated basal ganglia output in Parkinson’s disease" – 5.6 MSEK (2025–2028)
Gilberto Fisone
"Non-motor symptoms and complications in Parkinson's disease: modeling and identification of targets for therapy" – 5.6 MSEK (2025–2028)
Janos Fuzik
"Synaptic connectome maladaptation in the circuits of innate fear" – 8.4 MSEK (2025–2029)
Sten Grillner
"Neuronal networks of the vertebrate motor system - evolutionarily conserved forebrain control strategies" – 4.2 MSEK (2025–2027)
Carlos Ibanez
"Neurotrophic Mechanisms in the Adult Nervous System: A Novel Molecular Pathway Regulating Reward and Addiction" – 5.6 MSEK (2025–2028)
Maya Ketzef
"The role of pallido-striatal neurons in sensory processing under parkinsonian and DBS conditions" – 3 MSEK (2025–2027)
Konstantinos Meletis
"Structure and function of specialised dopamine-striatal circuits" – 5.6 MSEK (2025–2028)
Keira Melican
"How do human epidermal Langerhans cells facilitate the recognition, differentiation, and tissue response to Staphylococcus?" – 3 MSEK (2025–2027)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Konstantina Kilteni
"Self vs others: perceptual and neural mechanisms of self-touch" – 3.5 MSEK (2025–2027)
Renzo Lanfranco
"Becoming aware of our own body: unravelling the computational and neural mechanisms of bodily self-awareness" – 4.2 MSEK (2025–2027)