RESEARCH SEMINARS. The faculty seminar series Sahlgrenska Academy Science Seminars has been running for several years. It’s high time to fill the program for Spring 2024, starting on 1 February. The seminars are held in Lecture Hall Arvid Carlsson or meeting room Birgit Thilander and digital through Zoom Webinars, Thursdays 15-16, and researchers and teachers within Sahlgrenska Academy are hereby invited to submit suggestions of speakers. Speakers The following may…
Two of this year’s Nobel Laureates in physics will lecture at Chalmers in December – registration required
NOBEL. Two of this year’s three Nobel laureates in physics (Anne L´Hullier and Ferenc Krausz) will visit the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers in December. Both give lectures in the Chalmers kårhus in the Runan hall. Registration is required. Anne L´Hullier 15 december, 14:00-15:45 Runan, Chalmers tekniska högskola Click here to register. Ferenc Krausz 18 december, 10:30-12:00 Runan, Chalmers tekniska högskola Click here to register. On the Nobel Foundation’s website,…
Research grant to Toshima Parris from the Knut & Ragnvi Jacobsson Family Foundation
Toshima Parris, Associate Professor of oncology at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, receives SEK 500’000 in research scholarship from the Knut & Ragnvi Jacobsson Family Foundation for a project on triple-negative breast cancer, which is an aggressive and difficult-to-treat form of the disease. The group has recently shown that triple-negative breast cancer contains a large proportion of cancer stem cells, and will now try to develop treatments that kill these…
The central theme for this year’s Research Day: common diseases (conference in Swedish)
INTERACTION. Research that saves lives – from screening to rehabilitation. That is the theme for the upcoming edition of Research Day, held in Swedish on February 1, 2024. “We have chosen broad and common diseases that can be of interest to many,” says Peter Gjertsson, chair of the program committee. Current research in breast cancer, prostate cancer, stroke, and thyroid disease are some of the topics that will be highlighted…
Davide Angeletti studies differentiation of B-celler
SCIENTIST PORTRAIT. Davide Angeletti is an associate senior lecturer at the Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg. Davide´s work aims at defining the basic immunological mechanisms of antibody and B cell responses as an essential step towards an effective universal vaccination. Niclas Lundh, administrative coordinator at the institute, has met him. What is your scientific background? During my Master I became very interested in malaria research. I did two projects,…