ERC Starting Grants for three UvA researchers

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Starting Grants to Jorien Treur of the AMC and anthropologist Roanne van Voorst. Philosopher Thomas Schindler will be moving with his Starting Grant from the University of Konstanz to the UvA. An ERC Starting Grant is a personal grant of about ¤1.5 million and provides support to talented researchers for a period of five years. Dr Jorien Treur (Psychiatry): Mental illness, substance use, and cardiovascular disease: Unravelling causal relationships. Serious mental illnesses - such as depression, bipolar and psychotic disorders - are a major cause of suffering worldwide and disproportionately affect people of non-European descent. In addition, mental illnesses are also frequently accompanied by comorbid health conditions. The two most important co-morbidities are substance abuse and cardiovascular disease.
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