Pictured here are Foundation Chair Madeleine Olsson Eriksson and Carl-Eric Hagentoft, executive member of the Foundation Board, along with 23 of the 39 students awarded travel grants in 2017.
STUDENT. Thirty-nine graduate students recently received travel grants of SEK 25,000 each from the Sten A. Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture. Many of the students are attending courses at Sahlgrenska Academy. Many of the students are attending courses at Sahlgrenska Academy.
The grants enable students to visit foreign universities and create their own international networks. Students receiving the grants are involved primarily in the areas of culture and health as well as innovation and entrepreneurship, which are the research areas the Foundation has chosen to prioritize.
Two of the students receiving grants are medical student Eda-Lotta Kims and pharmacy student Hannes Elofsson.
Eda-Lotta Kims is in the last semester of the medical study program at the University of Gothenburg. Eda-Lotta was abroad for seven weeks to collect data on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in a hospital in Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean. The project was a collaboration with medical student Matilda Dooley. They conducted a study of hospital patients, investigating whether bacterial cultures had been used to support prescribing of antibiotics as well as what proportion of patients were placed on antibiotics and comparing this with international standards. Antibiotic resistance threatens our health in Sweden and globally. The results of the study can be used for work on improvements in the hospital and as a basis for creating national guidelines for prescribing antibiotics in Sweden. The aim is to help reduce antibiotic resistance.
Hannes Elofsson has been enrolled in the pharmacy program since the fall semester of 2013. He studied at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital from August 2017 to January 2018. The research carried out at the laboratory where he worked focuses on finding new ways to administer medicines locally with the aim of minimizing adverse drug reactions. His project is about developing drug formulations to prolong the effective duration of local anesthetics. The goal is to create a regimen through which local anesthesia can be maintained for several days in order to potentially treat prolonged pain, such as after surgery.
From 2012 until 2022, the Sten A. Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture is allocating SEK 1 million per year for travel grants. In 2017 39 travel grants of SEK 25,000 each were distributed to students in western Sweden in connection with their master’s degree projects.
PHOTO: MAGNUS GOTANDER
