SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. How do you envision the development of Medicinareberget with regard to sustainability? What sustainability activities do you think Gothenburg University and Akademiska Hus should prioritize? Students and staff are welcome to an open workshop in Medicinarelängan with representatives from the university’s property unit and the property owner Akademiska Hus. Ewa-Lena Bratt, Vice Dean for Internationalization, Collaboration, and Sustainability, is unable to attend the workshop due to teaching commitments.…
Collaborate with Japanese researchers – Health and an Ageing Population one of the areas
RESEACH COLLABORATION. MIRAI is a collaboration between 17 Swedish and Japanese universities with the aim of promoting long-term research collaborations between Sweden and Japan. On January 1, 2024, MIRAI entered a third collaboration phase with focus on increased interdisciplinary collaborations and sectors and a more challenge-driven approach. Apply to participate in a MIRAI Global Challenges Team Joint societal challenges connected to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are in the center…
New major vaccine prize awarded to Jan Holmgren
AWARD. Jan Holmgren, senior professor of medical microbiology, receives the prestigious international IVI-SK Bioscience Park MahnHoon Award. He is awarded for the development of the world’s first effective oral cholera vaccine. Cholera is a highly contagious intestinal disease, characterized by sudden diarrhea and vomiting. The patient often becomes unconscious and usually dies within a few hours. Jan Holmgren led the research team that mapped the basic mechanisms of disease and…
Christopher Gillberg receives the 2024 Arvid Carlsson Prize
AWARD. Christopher Gillberg, senior professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, is now being honored for his work in the spirit of Arvid Carlsson. The Arvid Carlsson Foundation awards him its prestigious prize, which, in addition to the honor, includes a research grant of 700,000 SEK. Christopher Gillberg is ranked as one of the world’s most influential researchers and is the most productive autism researcher globally. He is the author of…
Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi Lectures in Gothenburg – register your interest now
NOBEL LECTURE. The 2022 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Carolyn Bertozzi, is coming to Gothenburg to deliver a lecture. The lecture will be conducted in English. Registration is required. Welcome! Carolyn Bertozzi took click chemistry to a new level. In order to map important but elusive biomolecules on the surfaces of cells – glycans – she developed click reactions that function inside living organisms. Her so-called bioorthogonal reactions occur without disturbing…
Nominate for Sahlgrenska Academy’s Educational Award 2024 – deadline May 9th
NOMINATE. Do you know of teachers who have developed and implemented a successful and innovative educational idea in teaching? Or one or more teachers who, for many years, have performed an extremely appreciated and successful teaching job? Then it is time to nominate them for Sahlgrenska Academy’s Educational Award. Here you can read the announcement of Sahlgrenska Academy’s Educational Award 2024 (Swedish only). Nominations with detailed justifications are sent by…
500 nurses examined via knowledge test
EXAMINATION. A tough test for quick access to the Swedish healthcare work market. This is how the knowledge test for the Swedish nursing qualification has been described, with the University of Gothenburg having examined 500 candidates so far. The University will soon begin another period of national responsibility for the test. The University of Gothenburg has one of Sweden’s highest numbers of applicants for the nursing program. As well as…
Acupuncture and nerve stimulation relieve pelvic girdle pain equally
DOCTORAL THESIS. Acupuncture and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) are two interchangeable treatments to relieve pelvic girdle pain during pregnancy. Both treatments also alleviate the pregnant woman’s concern about pain, according to a thesis from the University of Gothenburg. More than one in two pregnant women are affected by pelvic girdle pain to some degree. Pelvic girdle pain often makes it difficult to walk. For one in ten women with…
Project sought for thesis fair in health, life science, and technology
Den 7 maj är det dags för vårens exjobbsmässa. Nu söker vi projekt för examensarbeten på master- och kandidatnivå inom hälsa, life science och teknik. Exjobbsmässan är ett återkommande evenemang som är ett samarbete mellan Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten och Sahlgrenska akademin vid Göteborgs universitet, Chalmers och Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset. Syftet är att erbjuda studenter på Göteborgs universitet och Chalmers möjligheten till tvärvetenskapliga projekt. Mässan riktar sig främst till studenter på masternivå, men på Sahlgrenska akademin vänder vi oss även till kandidatstudenter.
The calendar in Akademiliv will integrate into the new Staff Portal on April 8
COMMUNICATION. The launch of the university’s new staff portal on April 8 means changes for both Sahlgrenska Academy’s internal news and Akademiliv. In a first step, the calendar in Akademiliv will be closed, and its content will be transferred to the Staff Portal. The new Staff Portal will function more like a proper intranet compared to the current one. Each employee will have a personal starting page with shortcuts to…
Torsten Söderberg Foundation visited University of Gothenburg
RESEARCH FUNDING. Recently, the University of Gothenburg welcomed the chairman, vice chairman, and chief executive from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. Since 2008, the foundation has granted almost SEK 70 million for research at Sahlgrenska Academy. Two calls for proposals are currently active from the foundation: Academy Professorship The call is administered by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and is announced almost every year. A new invitation to nominate…
Method measures heat flow in individual red blood cells
NEW STUDY. The ability to measure heat flow at the nanoscaleopens a new chapter in cell biology. The method represents a breakthrough for research on metabolism in cells and is the result of a European research collaboration involving the University of Gothenburg. The method, published by the journal Science, measures the production of what is called entropy in individual red blood cells. Entropy is a concept from physics, where it…
Advanced technology enables new research on tendons
CONTRIBUTION. Despite Achilles tendon ruptures affecting a significant number of individuals, research on tendons has not been particularly extensive. However, new discoveries have contributed to increasing hopes of finding better treatment methods. A grant of 2.5 million Swedish kronor from the Lundberg Research Foundation is allocated to new technology that will assist researchers in Gothenburg in understanding why some patients’ tendons heal well while others do not. Achilles tendon rupture,…
Full house for GPCC’s Founding Partner Session on person-centered care at GoCo
COLLABORATION. It was a fully booked event when GPCC recently presented current research in person-centered care during the Sahlgrenska Academy’s GoCo Founding Partner Session. The seminar delved into the future of efficient, sustainable, and equitable healthcare systems. The program was put together by the Center for Person-Centered Care at the University of Gothenburg GPCC. It included testbeds for home care and person-centered health and healthcare governance in a digital age.…
Ola Rolfson: “Unique orthopaedic research opportunities in Gothenburg”
RESEARCHER PORTRAIT. Ola Rolfson, professor of orthopaedics and head of the department, sheds light on the unique opportunities for orthopaedic research in Gothenburg. Additionally, he addresses a persistent challenge in joint replacement surgery that he is actively seeking to resolve. Twenty years ago, Ola Rolfson served as a resident physician in orthopaedics at Kungälv Hospital, where he had a mentor named Lennart Gustafsson. “Lennart had an incredible ability to inspire people.…
Open house at Campus Medicinareberget on Wednesday, March 20
STUDENT RECRUITMENT. On Wednesday, March 20, the public is invited to visit Medicinareberget. This is the first time Sahlgrenska Academy and the Faculty of Science have invited prospective students and counselors within different types of education to our joint campus. Study counselors from both faculties are organizing the event to provide information about our first-cycle programs, and to showcase Sahlgrenska Academy’s and the Faculty of Science’s premises, including our Clinical…
Meet Ewa-Lena Bratt, Vice Dean for Internationalization, Collaboration, and Sustainability
LEADERSHIP MISSION. People need to meet to understand each other. That’s a clear message from Ewa-Lena Bratt, who is new to the position of Vice Dean for Internationalization, Collaboration, and Sustainability. She takes on the role in close collaboration with the other vice deans. Ewa-Lena Bratt is a professor of nursing with a focus on care in acute and critical conditions. At the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, she…
Collecting supplies for Ukraine at Medicinareberget
HUMANITARIAN AID. A collection of supplies destined for Ukraine is now being initiated by Erik Olsson, an educational administrator at the Institute of Medicine. Those willing to contribute can place goods and items in two separate boxes located at Hälsovetarbacken and in Anatomen. The collected items will be dispatched via PostNord, which offers free shipping of emergency supplies to Ukraine in collaboration with the Ukrainian postal service, Ukrposhta. Ukrposhta provides…
Quality assurance of doctoral education: Half-time reports to be subject to plagiarism check
DOCTORAL EDUCATION. Starting this fall, upon the initiative from the Council for PhD education (FUR), all half-time reports will undergo a plagiarism check using the iThenticate tool. The review is conducted to detect similarities in the texts of half-time reports and to avoid potential accusations of plagiarism. Initially, starting March 2024, all doctoral students will be offered the opportunity to have their half-time reports reviewed. However, as of September 15…
Henrik Sjövall: On internal task distribution in the forebrain – Do we consider this in our pedagogical work?
COLUMN. The brain’s two hemispheres specialize in different tasks but need each other’s assistance to fulfill their missions. Inspired by a worried medical student, Henrik Sjövall takes cues from the book “The Master and His Emissary” and reflects on the extent to which the brain’s own division of labor leaves an imprint on our student education. When we learn about the brain’s anatomy, we learn very little about what is…