CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION. From now on, we are expanding the construction information, so you can read up-to-date information on other different construction activities on Medicinareberget, and not just about projects where blasting takes place. Welcome to email questions about construction projects to medicinareberget@gu.se. Reconstruction work in Medicinarelängan as preparation for the move of Centre for Cellular Imaging, CCI, which is a part of Core Facilities has started. The preparations of their…
You may now suggest program activity for the Swedish Science Festival’s school program
The Science Festival’s school program takes place April 20 – 29, 2020. Activities related to sustainability and the climate issue are particular popular, but other issues and topics are also of interest. If you have an idea for an activity, send it in by November 1st. You can work on the details until the beginning of December. Your activity can be aimed at a specific grade or to several, and…
Six receive grants from Lundberg Foundation
GRANTS. Lill Mårtensson, Jonas Nilsson, Michael Olausson, Ruth Palmer, Diana Swolin-Eide and Peter Thomsen are receiving a total of almost SEK 17 million from the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation, primarily for the purchase of apparatus, aids and equipment related to cancer, renal disease and orthopedics. The largest grant, SEK 5 million, was awarded to Jonas Nilsson’s project on malignant melanoma, which aims at creating cell therapies for patients…
The cells’ natural transport system can be used for future treatments
NEW STUDY. For the first time ever, researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy have successfully used a genetic transport method that exists naturally in the body to deliver genetic material into cells and get them to produce a desired protein. This discovery could mean a new principal for treatment of diseases where genetic defects impact protein synthesis in cells. In the study, which was recently published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers…
Inger Ekman received the Swedish Nursing Association’s Care and Basic Values Award 2019
Inger Ekman, Professor of Nursing and former Director of the Center for Person-Centered Care (GPCC) has been awarded the Swedish Nursing Association’s Nursing and Value Award in 2019. The prize is SEK 100,000. She receives the award for her great contribution to an awareness of person-centered care, which is about seeing the patient as a fellow human being and a person in need, but also as a person with resources,…