GRANTS. Eva Angenete, a researcher in cancer surgery, and Fredrik Bergh Thoren, who is conducting research in immunotherapy for cancer, have recently been notified that they are receiving several years of funding from the Swedish Cancer Society. The fundraising organization has chosen to give them the Senior Clinical Investigator Award and Senior Investigator Award respectively.
Eva Angenete, an associate professor of surgery at the Institute of Clinical Sciences and chief physician at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, has been awarded the Senior Clinical Investigator Award. She is receiving the grant for her project Improving the treatment for colorectal and anal cancer – studies evaluating and improving treatment and surgical techniques with an emphasis on Quality of Life.
“The award gives me the opportunity to conduct research and do clinical work with full funding for several years,” says Eva, who was one of four researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy to receive stating grants from the Swedish Research Council. “For this project, the funding means that I can focus my time on more research and that money from other funding sources can go to a greater extent to my doctoral students and to other researchers working on the project.”
Eva Angenete conducts broad-based research on colorectal cancer, including surgical treatment, the patients’ quality of life and the health economics of treatment. The grant from the Swedish Cancer Society allows fully funded research time for her, which in her case means that half of her working hours will be funded for three years, with the possibility of an extension for an additional three years.
Fredrik Bergh Thoren is an associate professor of immunology in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Biomedicine. He is receiving the Senior Investigator Award for the project Impact of the natural killer cell repertoire in myeloid leukemia. The grant is designed to give established and well-qualified researchers the opportunity to devote themselves full-time to cancer research for a six-year period.
“Receiving this award in a national competition is, of course, a recognition of my team’s research, which is very gratifying. The Senior Investigator Award will be funding my salary during the next six years, which means that other research funds are freed up for use to intensify our efforts,” says Fredrik, whose research team is at the Sahlgrenska Cancer Center.
Both Eva and Fredrik have previously received Swedish Cancer Society research grants for their projects. Read news from 2016
“This is a further development of the previously funded project,” says Fredrik. “In my research team we try to understand how natural killer (NK) cells recognize and eliminate leukemia cells and how genetic variations in people affect the NK cell repertoire and thereby the ability to survive leukemia.”
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TEXT: SUSANNE LJ WESTERGREN
