APPOINTMENT. The Young Academy of Sweden welcomes eight newly appointed members from the Universities of Gothenburg, Linköping, Lund, Stockholm, Umeå, and Uppsala. Johan Zelano, assistant professor of neuroscience, is one of the newly appointed members. Johan Zelano’s research focuses on improving methods for diagnosing and treating acquired epilepsy. He is a specialist physician at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology and at the Neurology Clinic at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. His…
First standard for patient involvement in person-centered care
COLLABORATION. Most care organizations in Sweden prioritize patient involvement as a way of basing care on the patient’s needs, resources and prerequisites. But how can we know is this is being done and how can organizations attain this goal? For the first time, the European Union has established minimum requirements for patient involvement in person-centered care, which the Swedish Institute for Standards has helped develop on the initiative of the…
Agneta Holmäng: Important to maintain quality even if distance teaching continues
COLUMN. We should be proud of the high-quality education we have provided to this point, but if the restrictions continue, we need to accept the challenge of maintaining the level of quality. These are some of the thoughts from Dean Agneta Holmäng’s column, where she also expresses her sympathy with the many employees who still do not have access to emails after the server crash. In recent weeks, the server…
Construction information for Medicinareberget: The blasting work is coming to an end
CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION. Akademiliv provides information about the construction of Natrium on Medicinareberget for the period week 43-46 (October 19-November 13). Currently, information about constructions on Medicinareberget are distributed with special mailings and in Akademiliv every four weeks. For the rest of the year, the information will be according to the schedule on Monday 16 November and Monday 14 December. In regards of covid-19, there is currently no impact on the…
Magnus Simrén receives major research grant from the Erling-Persson Family Foundation
GRANT. Magnus Simrén, professor of medical gastroenterology at the Institute of Medicine, has been awarded a SEK 9 million research grant from the Erling-Persson Family Foundation. The research project studies a newly discovered bacterial infection, which sheds new light on the common disease IBS. The research group will study the link between food intake and a recently discovered bacterial infection in the intestines of IBS patients with diarrhea symptoms, known as a…
Bioceramic implant induces cranial regrowth
STUDY. A bioceramic implant has proved to stimulate regeneration of natural skull bone, so that even large cranial defects can be repaired in a way that has not been possible before. The research, led from the University of Gothenburg, is now presented in the scientific journal PNAS. Reconstructing major bone and soft-tissue injuries in the skull after an accident or treatment of a brain tumor, blood clot, or hemorrhage is a difficult challenge. Worldwide, the routine…
Registrations for Act Sustainable are open!
SUSTAINABILITY. From now onwards, the registrations for Act Sustainable are open. Don´t forget that each event requires its own registration, but you can register for as many events as you want. For those of you who are students or employees at Chalmers University of Technology or the University of Gothenburg, you will participate in the events via Zoom. It gives you the opportunity for active participation, for example by asking…
Higher suicide risk among older immigrants with untreated depression
STUDY. The risk of suicide is clearly elevated in the category of older women with untreated depression who were born outside the Nordic region, compared with corresponding Swedish-born women. This is shown by a study from the University of Gothenburg. “Our results indicate the need for innovative public health measures to meet needs among older foreign-born adults, especially women,” says Khedidja Hedna, a researcher at AgeCap, the Centre for Ageing…
Martin Lagging on this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine: “Very well-deserved”
NOBEL PRIZE. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, which has saved millions of lives around the world. “It’s a very well-deserved Nobel Prize. Thanks to their findings, it was possible to end the spread of hepatitis C through blood transfusions,” notes Martin Lagging, professor at the University of Gothenburg and expert on hepatitis C viral infection. On Monday, the…
Anna-Carin Olin with team PExA won the Arvid Carlsson Award 2020
AWARD. This year’s Arvid Carlsson Award by Sahlgrenska Science Park was awarded to Anna Carin Olin with team, PExA, for turning academic cross-functional research into a marketed solution that addresses the rising need for biomarker identification and early diagnosis of lung disease through non-invasive measurement of the small airways. Diseases of the lung represents an area of significant unmet medical need and increasing global prevalence, where the emergence of personalised…
New research on cataract surgery in order to improve health care
STUDY. In general, surgeons who perform numerous cataract operations every year encounter relatively few severe cases, and this probably contributes to their lower complication rate, as shown by a study led from the University of Gothenburg. These results provide new knowledge in the endeavor to further improve healthcare for a large group of patients. Cataract surgery is the most frequent surgical intervention in Sweden, carried out some 130,000 times annually.…
Podcast guest Joakim Öhlén: The picture of palliative care needs to be nuanced
PODCAST. The image that has appeared in the media of palliative care is in many ways incorrect. Professor Joakim Öhlén is the latest guest in the podcast Akademiliv (podcast in Swedish). Here you can hear the podcast with Joakim Öhlén: https://soundcloud.com/sahlgrenskaakademin/podgasten-joakim-ohlen-bilden-av-palliativ-vard-behover-nyanseras Patients do not have to be dying to receive palliative care, instead, according to Joakim Öhlén, palliative care is a kind of life help, which helps patients to live…
Thomas Karikari recognized for best scholarly article
AWARD. Thomas Karikari, a researcher in clinical neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, is one of this year’s recipients of the Fondkistan Foundation scholarship that the Swedish Alzheimer’s Foundation awards to promising young researchers. The award was presented on September 21 during the live broadcast of the Alzheimer’s Foundation event on International Alzheimer’s Day, in which several other leading dementia researchers from Gothenburg also participated. This year two promising young…
Construction information for Medicinareberget: Limited access past the allotments
CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION. Akademiliv provides information about the construction of Natrium on Medicinareberget. The current information about constructions on Medicinareberget is now starting to be distributed with special mailings and in Akademiliv every four weeks, instead of as hitherto every other week. For the rest of the year, the information will be according to the schedule on Monday 19 October, Monday 16 November and Monday 14 December. In regards of covid-19,…
Björn Redfors awarded an ERC Starting Grant
YOUNG RESEARCHERS. Björn Redfors has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of around SEK 15 million for his research on heart attacks. He wants to understand what happens when parts of the heart muscle are temporarily disabled during an acute heart attack, in hopes of developing better treatments. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Clinical Trials Center at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, he has…
Want to know more about Natrium?
CAMPUS MEDICINAREBERGET. Now you can find information about Natrium in Medicinarelängan. The exhibition is on the spot where the new building for the Faculty of Science will be attached to Medicinarelängan. If you are on site in Medicinarelängan, you may have noticed that part of the corridor is delimited by a building plank? Behind the building board, demolition and construction work is underway to prepare for Natrium to dock at…
Higher dementia risk in women with prolonged fertility
STUDY. Women with a longer reproductive period had an elevated risk for dementia in old age, compared with those who were fertile for a shorter period, a population-based study from the University of Gothenburg shows. “Our results may explain why women have a higher risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease than men after age 85, and provide further support for the hypothesis that estrogen affect the risk of dementia…
New professor with his heart in Gothenburg
PEOPLE. With his research in molecular epidemiology, Gustav Smith hopes to contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms behind heart disease and to more effective treatments. He has previously worked at Lund University and at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT in Boston. He would like to continue collaboration with these institutions as part of his position as a new professor of cardiology at the Institute of Medicine.…
New facility financing model adopted by the Board
PREMISES. The Faculty Board has adopted a new facility financing model that will apply from the start of the new year. In this model means, the faculty covers 60 percent of rent for the institutes’ office and research facilities and continues to cover 100 percent of rent for joint teaching facilities. Facility financing is a complex question, but it is our goal to create a model that is both simple…
Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen contributes to US guidelines on cerebral hemorrhage
INTERNATIONALIZATION. The American Heart Association has appointed a working group to develop guidelines for the care of people with stroke caused by cerebral hemorrhage in the United States. The group consists mainly of North American stroke experts, but Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen is one of a few Europeans asked to contribute to the guidelines. The most common form of stroke is a cerebral infarction, which is caused by a blood clot.…