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Three LiU researchers share SEK 53 million from the ERC

Three researchers at LiU have received European Research Council Starting grants awarded to promising researchers. Their research areas are new cancer treatment, materials development and how people are affected by grief.
Rebecca Böhme, Adam Enmalm and Reinoud Kaldewaij sit and monitor a scan at CMIV, Campus US.

"We have realized the importance of touch"

Research on the social aspect of touch has received a great deal of attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rebecca Böhme, researcher at CSAN, focuses on this sense which is considered to be the first we use, already as a fetus inside the womb.
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SEK 40 million for research in medicine and health

Eight researchers at LiU have been awarded at total of SEK 40.2 million in the Swedish Research Council’s round of funding in medicine and the health sciences for 2019.

External news

"How brains distinguish between self-touch and touch by others" Article published in Medical Xpress on January 21, 2019.

"How the Brain Distinguishes Different Types of Touch" Article published in Pain Research Forum on March 19, 2019.

"Why tickling yourself is no laughing matter" Article published in The Times on January 22, 2019.