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Gothenburg’s Helios mass cytometer inaugurated INFRASTRUCTURE. After several years of hard work to put together the funding and premises, Gothenburg’s mass cytometer is now in place in the Clinical Chemistry Department at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The instrument, the most advanced of its kind in Sweden, combines flow cytometry with mass spectrometry. Christine Wennerås, professor of clinical bacteriology, is delighted that the instrument is now in place. She believes that…
NEW EQUIPMENT. Malignant melanoma, winter vomiting disease and nephritis are some research areas that can derive great benefits from the new high-tech equipment now available in Sweden and Gothenburg, thanks to a grant from IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg’s Research Foundation. With correlative light-electron microscopy, researchers can now acquire better research data in less time. It is like seeing the Manhattan skyline in the night full of light, and then during the…
REXEARCH COMMUNICATION. Are you a researcher and want to join in the Science Festival 2020? Then it’s high time to plan your participation. Deadline to submit your programme idea is 1 November. Just like previous years, the Science Festival has an overall theme. This year it is “Movement”. “The movement theme can embrace for example freedom and equality movements, hacker and DIY movements, climate, punk, tectonics, Brownian motion, space travels,…
DOCTORAL STUDIES. In writing the main thesis text, doctoral students need to be sure that the text is completely original and that it does not contain parts copied from the composite papers included in the thesis. Otherwise problems can arise if journals want to include some of the unpublished manuscripts. Theses at Sahlgrenska Academy consist of primary thesis along with component papers, usually three or four or them. The component…
GRANTS. Davide Angeletti, who has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Biomedicine for one year, has now been awarded one of the most prestigious grants a young European researcher can receive: the ERC Starting Grant. The grant from the European Research Council gives him more than SEK 15 million for his basic research on antibodies and B cell immunological mechanisms. Eventually Davide Angeletti’s research probably will help…
CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION. Below is information related to the construction project Naturvetenskap Life. During week 38 the spare time at 15:00 on Thursday will also be used to burst a few large blocks in order to be able to unload them – thus two blasting takes place Thursday September 19. CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION WEEK 37 September 9 – September 13 The removing of loose rock material from the wall continues. The work…
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. As of September 10, you will be able to buy yesterday’s leftovers from Restaurang Lyktan at a discounted price. The initiative is receiving funds from the University of Gothenburg’s climate fund with the aim of reducing food waste. Every day Restaurang Lyktan and the Wallenberg Conference Center prepare about 450 lunches. Since nearly 10 percent of these meals will not be sold, between 6,000 and 10,000 servings are…
RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE. For genomics and proteomics, there are databases that enable researchers worldwide to share data, and now carbohydrate glycomic- research is following suit. Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy have been instrumental in developing an open access database that is expected to be important in developing precision diagnostics. The database is presented in an article in Nature Communications. In addition to the research team at Sahlgrenska Academy, which is headed by…
NEW STUDY. In a group of internationally adopted children with cleft lip and/or palate, speech at age five is impaired compared to a corresponding group of children born in Sweden, a study shows. The adopted children also need more extensive surgery, which may be due to their surgical interventions taking place later in life. “The study shows they undergo more operations, have more complications, and have more speech difficulties at…
ASSIGNMENTS. You now have the opportunity to express your interest in the assignment of Vice Dean of Postgraduate Studies. The Nomination Committee wants your expression of interest by September 17. The Vice Dean is subordinate to the Dean. The Vice Dean will continuously report to the Dean and to the Faculty Board on the activities within hers or his responsibilities. More information from the Nomination Committee (in Swedish only): https://gubox.box.com/s/1esaexngppwxuhbl92zmjazlg81o7774 Send your Expressions of…
RESEARCH COMMUNICATION. Staff at Sahlgrenska Academy now have the chance to win Magnus Linton’s new book Text och stil – konsten att berätta med vetenskap (‘Text an Style – about the art of telling with science’ – note the book is in Swedish). Akadmiliv has three copies to raffle. The book is described as both a serious and fun story about the changed possibilities of the written word. The book…
MEDICINAREBERGET. After an evaluation, the agreement with the food truck Tikka Roti has been extended. From Monday September 9, you will find the food truck in the same place and at the same time as before. In addition to the usual offerings, the menu will be supplemented with new guest spots every two weeks – starting with Thai streetfood. The basic menue for the food truck is still Indian and…
NEW STUDY. A major new study on the association between blood glucose levels and risks of organ impairment in people with type 1 diabetes can make a vital contribution to diabetes care, in the researchers’ view. The Swedish study now published in BMJ (British Medical Journal) covers more than 10,000 adults and children with type 1 diabetes. Using the Swedish Diabetes Register, the researchers have been able to monitor the…
CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION. Below is information related to the construction project Naturvetenskap Life. Both during week 35 and week 37, the spare time at 15:00 may used to blast larger boulders. CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION WEEK 35 August 26 – 30 The rock wall on top of the hill is appearing more and more. Already before blasting even started, preparatory reinforcements were initiated and in week 35 the next step of the…
NEW STUDY. Could large TV monitors in waiting rooms, informing visitors about current local medical research, be a good idea? A study shows that people provided with news in this way are more interested in medical research than those randomly excluded from the news flow. “Simply expressed, interest was 30 percent higher in the group that had received the news, and there’s no doubt that was statistically significant,” says Ronny…
NEW STUDY. Women with severe sleep apnea appear to be at an elevated risk of getting cancer, a study shows. No causal relationship is demonstrated, but the link between nocturnal hypoxia in women and higher cancer risk is still clear. “It’s reasonable to assume that sleep apnea is a risk factor for cancer, or that both conditions have common risk factors, such as overweight. On the other hand, it is…
DOCTORAL THESIS. In patients with heart failure and/or atrial fibrillation, physical fitness improves if individualised physiotherapist-led exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation is provided. This method yields better results than physical activity on prescription for these patients, a thesis shows. Patients with chronic heart failure often experience symptoms such as low exercise capacity, breathlessness and a short walking distance. Living with atrial fibrillation, also results in impaired physical fitness, and often anxiety about…
NEW STUDY. Motor-skill training has proved capable of reversing brain impairments in rats treated with nicotine. This effect has been demonstrated in a recent study and, in the long term, the method may also come to be tested as an aid to human smoking cessation. “It was as if the training counteracted many of the changes caused by nicotine in the animals’ brains, and helped to restore the balance faster,”…
STUDY. A person with drug resistant epilepsy who gets an early surgical intervention has a better chance of becoming seizure free. This is shown in a systematic review and meta-analysis in which Sahlgrenska Academy researchers, in collaboration with the Swedish Council for Assessment of Health Technology and Social Services (SBU), analysed results from a range of previous studies. They concluded that people with drug resistant epilepsy should, as early as…
DOCTORAL THESIS. Noise, whole-body vibrations from vessel hulls and ergonomic strain are the main problems in the work environment of present-day Swedish commercial shipping. This is evident from research in which work-environment factors, ill-health and cancer among seafarers were studied. “The results are a good basis for improving the work environment in this sector,” says Karl Forsell, who has a PhD in occupational and environmental medicine from Sahlgrenska Academy, University…
