COMBATING COVID-19. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is investing SEK 53 million on a national research program to study the effects of COVID-19 vaccines. Of the 10 projects receiving funding, two are being led by researchers at the University of Gothenburg. Anna Lundgren is coordinating a project on immune response after vaccination among individuals who were previously infected by COVID-19, individuals who were unexposed, and immunosuppressed individuals. Fredrik Nyberg…
AI can discover secondary stroke after subarachnoid hemorrhage
AI NEWS. In the future, perhaps complications following subarachnoid hemorrhage can be reduced or the threat of an ensuing stroke can be avoided. A new monitoring system is being developed which will create an alarm and alert the physician if a patient develop signs of oxygen deficiency in the brain. In a joint project between medicine and engineering at the University of Gothenburg, researchers are using machine learning and AI…
No increase in colorectal cancer after obesity surgery
NEW STUDY. Colorectal cancer risk does not rise after bariatric surgery, a study from the University of Gothenburg shows. This finding is important for patients with obesity, and their healthcare professionals, when deciding upon such an operation. Obesity is a known risk factor for several types of cancer, including colorectal cancer (affecting the colon or rectum). It is already established that bariatric surgery leads to a decrease in overall cancer risk in patients with obesity. However, some studies on colorectal cancer have shown an elevated cancer risk after bariatric surgery, while others have reported a risk reduction. These…
Better postoperative recovery for physically active
DOCTORAL THESIS. People who are physically active on a regular basis recover better after surgery for colorectal cancer. However, starting to exercise only after the diagnosis is a fact had no effect on recovery, a University of Gothenburg thesis shows. In working on his thesis, Aron Onerup, who obtained his doctorate in surgery at the University’s Sahlgrenska Academy and is now a specialist doctor at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, carried out…
Time to nominate an international student for this year’s Global Swede Ceremony
INTERNATIONALIZATION. All departments and institutes at the University of Gothenburg are invited to nominate an excellent international student no later than Wednesday 31 March. Among the nominations received, a student is selected to represent the University of Gothenburg at a ceremony arranged by the Swedish Institute (SI) and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on 28 May. Due to the ongoing pandemic, this year’s ceremony will take place digitally via Zoom.…
Study on African fathers’ involvement during pregnancy and at childbirth
YOUNG RESEARCHER. Samuel Nambile Cumber has been a senior lecturer in the fields of Social Medicine and Epidemiology since 2017. For the coming two years, he will be studying African fathers’ involvement during pregnancy, at childbirth and during infancy. The project is being funding through a post-doctoral scholarship from the Anna Ahrenberg Foundation. We spoke with Samuel Cumber over an unstable video link. He is currently in Cameroon, carrying out…
Nominate for Sahlgrenska Academy’s Educational Award 2020 – deadline May 13th
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 2021 (Swedish only): https://gubox.box.com/s/eoxdq7uvncjahl4vocu7erq3s5bnq71n Nominations with detailed justifications are sent…
High expectations for GoCo Health Innovation City
COLLABORATION. GoCo Health Innovation City, for which Sahlgrenska Academy is a founding partner, has now been officially inaugurated with the launch of a webcast television program. All the key people in the life sciences involved in the program have great faith in the potential for the life sciences in Gothenburg and in Sweden and the value that GoCo Health Innovation City will contribute. Watch the broadcast in its entirety on…
Tip – watch short interviews with our new professors
NEW PROFESSORS. The university has had to postpone two professor inaugerations, and only next spring is a major festival planned that brings together three cohorts of new professors. Until then, you can watch short films where the new professors introduce themselves, in Swedish. The university was unable to hold the Inaugeration of New Professors last year, and has also decided to postpone this year. The Vice-Chancellor Eva Wiberg has decided…
Construction information Medicinareberget – Walls, ceilings and beams are beginning to come in place
CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION. Akademiliv provides information on the construction of Natrium on Medicinareberget for the period weeks 11-14 (March 15 – April 9). The current information about constructions on Medicinareberget is distributed with special mailings and in Akademiliv every four weeks. As far as the information mailings are planned, you will receive these mailings with information April 12, May 10, June 7 and August 16. In regards of covid-19, there is…
European conference held to produce new working plan for person-centred care
RESEARCH COLLABORATION. Inger Ekman has led two EU-projects since 2013 with the aim of testing person-centred care in Europe. On the 11th March a conference with participants from 26 countries was held in order to produce a new plan for continued work. ‘Person-centred care 4 sustainable health systems – How to transform health care in the post-pandemic era’ was the title of the consensus conference was held on Thursday March 11th…
Insulin rises before cells develop resistance, new diabetes research implies
NEW STUDY. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now presented results that may change our basic view of how type 2 diabetes occurs. Their study indicates that free fatty acids (FFAs) in the blood trigger insulin release even at a normal blood-sugar level, without an overt uncompensated insulin resistance in fat cells. What is more, the researchers demonstrate the connection with obesity: the amount of FFAs largely depends on…
A unique clinical study that could increase survival from melanoma
CLINICAL RESEARCH. Six Swedish university hospitals are now accepting patients in a unique randomized study that will hopefully improve the prognosis for patients with metastasized melanoma. The study is being led by the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital and is examining whether survival after immunotherapy can be improved by removing remaining metastases. “Today, we do not know whether survival can be improved by removing metastases surgically. Unfortunately, metastatic…
University of Gothenburg comes top in Dentistry
RANKING. The University of Gothenburg ranks number 1 in the world in Dentistry in this year’s edition of QS World University Rankings by Subject, which have now been presented. The QS World University Rankings are among the three best-known university ranking data sets worldwide. The other two are the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai list, and the Tomes Higher Education (THE). The QS World…
The H70 studies to continue thanks to funding from the Kamprad Family Foundation
GRANTS. It has long been uncertain whether the H70 studies could continue with the next cohort from the 1950s. Through a grant of SEK 10 million from the Kamprad Family Foundation, the population study can now begin signing up research subjects born in the 1950s. “It’s wonderful that we have received funding so that the H70 studies can continue. It means a lot to many researchers from nearly all faculties…
Agneta Holmäng: “OligoNova Hub will be a huge boost”
COLUMN. “It will soon have been one year since we began adapting how we work to reduce the spread of the virus in the community,” writes Dean Agneta Holmäng in her column. She also discusses the therapeutic oligonucleotides initiative as a large investment in the life sciences that is important not just for West Sweden, but for the entire country. We will soon have a full year of restrictions and remote…
Therapeutic oligonucleotides – how they work
RESEARCH THAT AFFECTS. We are at the beginning of a revolution that will change the way we develop pharmaceuticals. The first therapeutic oligonucleotides have been developed to treat unusual but serious genetic diseases, but we are now seeing a rapid development of the therapy for common diseases as well. Along with a number of partners, the University of Gothenburg contributes to this effort through the major initiative of the OligoNova…
A new hub for developing medicines of the future at the University of Gothenburg
CONDITIONS OF RESEARCH. In recent years, techniques have been developed to treat diseases with what are known as oligonucleotide drugs, based on short DNA or RNA molecules. The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine at the University of Gothenburg has now been awarded SEK 54 million by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and SEK 48m from SciLifeLab and the University of Gothenburg, to create a national technology platform…
Socioeconomics and heart disease among people living near railways
GRANTS. Formas has awarded Natalia Caldeira Loss Vincens, a postdoc in occupational and environmental medicine, SEK 3 million in a project grant for early-career researchers. The project investigates how cardiometabolic health is affected by noise and vibration for people living near railways with a link to social inequality. Environmental health and socioeconomic risks are often studied separately, but some studies suggest individuals in lower socioeconomic positions, for instance with lower…
They are the first doctoral students in medical engineering in collaboration with Chalmers
DOCTORAL STUDIES. So far, two doctoral students at Sahlgrenska Academy have begun their doctoral studies in medical engineering in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology. The thesis projects for both Eva Hagberg and Michael Kercsik concern developing assessment support based on artificial intelligence (AI) for different types of heart imaging. Eva Hagberg’s thesis project deals with automated analysis of cardiac ultrasound readings. Ultrasound assessment, a common way to examine heart…