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Sidansvarig: | 2023-11-13
The MP Foundation has awarded Per Augustsson and Maria Antfolk MSEK 2 each for their two different projects: An ultrasound-based blood component separation method (Per), and the creation of a next generation organ-on-a-chip system (Maria).
Per Augustsson and Thierry Baasch are awarded MSEK 4 each for their projects Understand and control acoustic streaming in microchannels and Playing the violin: A novel versatile acoustic tweezer for single cell handling based on multimodal actuation, respectively, from the Swedish Research Council. The grants both run for four years.
Per Augustsson has been granted a EUR 150 000 continuation/adaptation to his existing ERC Starting Grant. More about Per's research here (Swedish): https://www.lu.se/artikel/erc-proof-concept-grant-forskning-om-att-sortera-celler-med-ultraljud
Per Augustsson was contacted by the Sound Environment Centre, which belongs to Lund University. Per and colleagues work with ultrasound, which a human ear cannot hear. After explaining the process to the artist Julia, she made an interpretation of what it would sound like if you could hear what is going on in a channel for cell separation.The sound [...]