Caroline Miranda Larsen and Aron Onerup receive Sahlgrenska Academy International Starting Grants

This year’s recipients of the Sahlgrenska Academy International Starting Grant are Caroline Miranda Larsen (Neuroscience and Physiology) and Aron Onerup (Clinical Sciences), a grant that awards them SEK one million each from the faculty. Caroline Miranda Larsen has completed a postdoc at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism. Her project at Sahlgrenska Academy explores a new role for delta cells in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, as well as the hormone somatostatin in diabetes. Aron Onerup has completed a postdoc at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He will investigate the potential of lifestyle interventions to mitigate late cardiovascular effects in individuals who have survived childhood cancer.