COLLABORATION. After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, hardly any university teachers or students remained in the country. Slowly and systematically, the country’s university has developed a new academia. It was recently the twentieth anniversary of the collaboration between the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and Swedish universities, including the University of Gothenburg. The research collaboration between Swedish universities and the state-run University of Rwanda is part of SIDA’s efforts…
Pediatric clinical studies’ underfunding risk
NEW STUDY. A clinical study with children as participants entails extra costs often omitted in the initial budget. Clinical studies involving children are thus at risk of being undercompensated, new research shows. Kids will be kids when they take part in clinical studies, as at other times. Sometimes they need a break to do something else for a while before the next study session can start. With children as study…
Bike service for employees at Medicinareberget (SEK 650)
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. On May 16 and 17, the company Mobil Cykelteknik will come to Medicinareberget and offer bicycle service for both employees and students. For students it is free, while employees pay SEK 650 for the service. Drop off the bike outside the Academicum in the morning, pick it up freshly serviced and ready in the afternoon. Book service by email info@mobilcykel.se The service includes: review wiping the chain is…
Consider an associate professorship after defending your doctoral thesis
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORSHIP. If you are aiming for an academic career, you should plan to apply for a docentship as soon as possible after defending your doctoral thesis. This advice comes from Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen, chair of Sahlgrenska Academy’s docentship committee. An associate professorship (docentship) is a non-salaried title at the University. The Swedish docent status corresponds approximately to, for example, the following titles or positions in academic systems outside Sweden:…
Twelve jubilee doctorates at Sahlgrenska Academy were created in a fine ceremony
ACADEMIC CEREMONIES. On Friday 5 May, the University of Gothenburg recognized 26 jubilee doctors, of which 12 were from Sahlgrenska Academy. A jubilee doctor of jubilation, doctor jubilaris, is someone who received his doctorate fifty years ago and who is now invited back to his old university’s celebration to be created. The celebration began with a creation ceremony in the university’s auditorium in Vasaparken. Promoter for the jubilee medical doctors…
Physical activity crucial for poststroke recovery
NEW STUDY. After a stroke, physical activity can be pivotal to successful recovery. People who spend four hours a week exercising after their stroke achieve better functional recovery within six months than those who do not, a University of Gothenburg study shows. The study, now published in the scientific journal JAMA Network Open, is based on data concerning 1,500 stroke patients in 35 Swedish hospitals. The participants were grouped according…
UN mission to the University of Gothenburg – ensure the quality of midwifery education in Bangladesh
INTERACTION. The Institute of Health and Care Sciences is appointed to collaborate with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Government of Bangladesh to strengthen national midwifery education. The mission is to strengthen the national midwifery education in Bangladesh by raising the quality of education and supporting long-term investments in midwifery education. The project will ensure that the standard of all 147 educations in both the public and private…
The 3R Seminar: Knowledge for better research and animal welfare
SEMINAR. With the 3Rs in focus, the University of Gothenburg has many good examples of how animal welfare is continuously improved. At the 3R seminar, which is arranged annually by the university’s Animal Welfare Body, both cutting-edge research and methods for reducing the use of animals were presented. Charbel Sader, Communications Officer at Core Facilities, provides this report from the seminar. Replace: Malin Celander on replacing animals with cell lines…
New machine learning framework developed for quick radiation biomarker discovery
NEW STUDY. Weeks-long searching for biomarkers have now been condensed to minutes or even seconds of automatic work. Through a collaboration project between Bioinformatics and Data Centre (BDC) and Britta Langens at Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, a machine learning framework for radiation biomarker discovery and absorbed dose prediction have been developed. “To identify biomarkers using machine learning is a novel approach in cancer radiotherapy, which earlier was a manual and time-consuming method where human bias is a risk. Britta Lange had acquired huge amount of data through animal…
Potency drug reduced long-term blood sugar in type 2 diabetes
NEW STUDY. A small group of patients with type 2 diabetes significantly improved their long-term blood sugar levels when treated with high-dose tadalafil, a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction. The result from the University of Gothenburg pilot study is striking, but repetition in a larger study and over a longer period is needed. Tadalafil is one of the active pharmaceutical substances known as PDE5 (phosphodiesterase type 5) inhibitors, a…
Roger Olofsson Bagge: “Sahlgrenska-made” cancer surgeon and researcher
NEW PROFESSOR. Roger Olofsson Bagge is Sahlgrenska Academy’s new Professor of Cancer Surgery. Aged 45, he has already driven revolutionary research; refined and implemented world-class cancer treatments; led and developed several projects at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. But who is Roger and what route brought him here? And above all, where is he heading? I meet Roger Olofsson Bagge on a Wednesday afternoon, in his room at the Department of Surgery.…
Håkan Tinnerberg investigates health risks of the super material graphene
RESEARCH. Stronger than steel, super light, transparent, and extremely good at conducting electricity–these are some of the properties that make graphene such an interesting material. But could it pose health risks? Occupational hygienist Håkan Tinnerberg is researching this. Every year 30–50 people die from accidents at work in Sweden. “This is extremely serious, of course. But there is less awareness of the fact that many more people–about 3,000 of them–die…
Seeking solutions to malnutrition in Rwanda
COLLABORATION. A major research project is underway in Rwanda to investigate the factors that lead to malnutrition among young children, with the aim of enabling more children to grow and develop normally. One of the researchers working on the project is Diane Rinda, a doctoral student at both the University of Gothenburg and the University of Rwanda. As in many other low-income countries, malnutrition is common among young children in…
Sahlgrenska Life: the university rejects rental proposal and investigates alternatie ways to implement the project
SAHLGRENSKA LIFE. The rental proposal that Vitartes submitted in December has now been evaluated. The University of Gothenburg has made the decision to reject the proposal. The Västra Götaland region has come to the same conclusion. The reasons are the financial terms of the agreement and the model for implementation. “The collaboration between Project Managers, Architects, and representatives from the concerned institutes at the Sahlgrenska Academy has resulted in good…
Josefin Larsson winner in the competition Three Minute Thesis
DOCTORAL STUDENT. Josefin Larsson, PhD student at the Institute of clinical sciences, won won the People’s Choice award in the Three Minute Thesis competition, recently held during the International Science Festival in Gothenburg. She also got to share tha award in the category ‘The jury’s favourite’ with Tjeerd Fokkens, PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science. The competition requires doctoral students to present the subject…
Akademiliv podcast – Carolina Klüft and Mats Börjesson in conversation about athletes’ limits
PODCAST. All these new records – we run faster, jump higher and lift heavier. But where is the limit to how good an elite athlete can be? What pieces of the puzzle must fall into place to reach absolute top form? And how is research conducted on performance development? You can find the Akademiliv podcast (in Swedish) on Spotify or other platforms for podcasts, e.g. Soundcloud. On GU Play there…
Increased exhaustion in maternal and neonatal care during pandemic
NEW STUDY. During the COVID-19 pandemic, 18% of maternal and neonatal care staff reported exhaustion, an early sign of burnout. This is shown in a University of Gothenburg study, based on questionnaire responses from both medical and administrative staff members. The pandemic has resulted in major challenges to the health care system in Sweden. Employees in maternal and neonatal care have been severely affected by changed work routines and staff…
Investigating side effects in chemotherapy in Rwandan population
COLLABORATION. Meet Alexis Rugamba, one of the ambitious doctoral students from Rwanda currently working on his doctorate at the University of Gothenburg. His research investigates why side effects are more common in populations on the African continent for a common chemotherapy treatment. Alexis Rugamba, age 34, pursued undergraduate studies in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Rwanda and earned his Master’s of Sciences in Medicine, Major of Cellular and Molecular…
Future doctors and nurses feel unprepared for disasters
NEW STUDY. Most students of medicine and nursing in Sweden consider their own knowledge of disaster medicine inadequate. However, students who have been conscripts in the military are at an advantage, a University of Gothenburg study shows. At present, there is no coherent picture of how much instruction in disaster medicine is included in the professional training courses for doctors and nurses in Sweden. The impact of students’ previous experience,…
They received ALF positions in the spring of 2023
CLINICAL RESEARCH. A total of 42 researchers were granted ALF positions in the latest round of applications. The positions are divided among physicians and other health professions and will be assumed on January 1, 2024. A senior clinical ALF researcher position goes to Elias Johansson, associate professor and specialist in neurology. Elias Johansson, associate professor at the Section for Clinical Neuroscience and specialist doctor at the Neurology Clinic at Sahlgrenska…