NEW STUDY. Older and severely ill influenza patients recover two or three days earlier, on average, if they are given antiviral flu medication. Other people regain their health one day sooner, on average, with the same treatment. This is clear from a European study implemented over three flu seasons. “Patients who are older, whose flu is worse and who have other diseases at the same time get most benefit from…
New app helps you find your way around the campus
DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT. Now you can use a simple map app to navigate around both Chalmers and GU. The app “Hitta på campus” app is a digital guide to classrooms, restaurants, bus stops and much more. It is planned to be evaluated in the summer of 2021. The app is available for Android and iPhone, and you download it for free n App Store or Google Play. When you are looking…
Agneta Holmäng: Changes in government funding for research and doctoral programs needs to be sustainable in the long term
COLUMN. Recently the vice-chancellor and the University Board decided that the extra basic funding the university has received from the Swedish government for research and doctoral studies will favor complete academic environments. The decision means that the addition of SEK 55 million will be allocated to four faculties, and Sahlgrenska Academy is not among those receiving the funds. In this column Dean Agneta Holmäng calls for a more long-term plan…
Instagram competition settled – Josefin Bergenholtz, Niclas Lundh and Julie Weidner took the winning Christmas pictures
PHOTO CONTEST. Josefin Bergenholtz, Niclas Lundh and Julie Weidner – those are the winners of the Sahlgrenska Academy instagram competition with Christmas theme. The winners will receive two movie tickets each. Congratulations! The movie tickets come with the internal mail.
ERC Consolidator Grant to diabetes researcher Anders Rosengren
GRANTS. Anders Rosengren, a diabetes researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, is one of the recipients of the ERC Consolidator Grant for his research on type 2 diabetes. The European Research Council is providing him with SEK 20 million for his research, which can eventually result in more patients receiving customized treatment for their unique type of diabetes. As a researcher at University of Gothenburg, Anders Rosengren participates…
New findings on satiety signaling from intestine
STUDY. A previously unknown mechanism that suppresses satiety signals from the small intestine is the main finding of a new study. This may explain, first, satiety disorders in obesity and diabetes and, second, the prompt health effects of gastric bypass, a form of bariatric surgery. The study, published in the BMJ journal Gut, is based on investigations of the small intestinal mucous membrane in postoperative gastric bypass patients, as well…
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s Diagnostics Accelerator Makes Major Investment to Fast Track Development of Novel Biomarkers
GRANT. Professor Henrik Zetterberg at the University of Gothenburg will head a major European research collaboration, which is developing a significantly easier way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease at an early stage through a blood test. Such a test could offer the potential for developing new treatments for Alzheimer’s and related dementias. . Through its Diagnostics Accelerator, the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) – a U.S. based non-profit – is committed…
Three new Excellent Teachers named
DISTINCTION. Lena Hartelius, Inger Jansson and Helena Wigert – these are the latest to join Sahlgrenska Academy’s honored staff named Excellent Teachers. Our faculty has appointed 14 Excellent Teachers since the program’s inception in 2015. Lena Hartelius, a professor of speech therapy, teaches and supervises treatment of neurologically caused speech and language problems. What she most enjoys about teaching is often being surprised, impressed and happy. “The students and colleagues…
Management from Swedish medical faculties and university hospitals meet in Gothenburg
INFUTURUM. When Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital invited management of Sweden’s university hospitals and medical faculties to InFuturum, the future of health care and artificial intelligence stood high on the agenda. Dean Agneta Holmäng and Hospital Director Ann-Marie Wennberg welcomed the participants at this year’s meeting. Beforehand they had gone through the agenda of the very first InFuturum conference held in Gothenburg seven years ago. At that time participants…
Roles and duties in war and peace in focus for visiting professor Boffard
VISITING PROFESSOR. During one of Kenneth Boffard’s first assignments, as a doctor in Europe, at a hospital in Birmingham, he had to manage the casualties of an IRA bombing. Some 40 years later, as Visiting Professor at Sahlgrenska Academy, he is working with members of the Department of Surgery to develop a training program that meets the needs of health professionals working in crisis and war-torn countries abroad. We have…
Current construction information for Medicinareberget – work in Medicinarelängan may cause more noise
CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION. Here you find an overview of construction activities during the next few weeks that may affect you on different locations on Medicinareberget, not just where blasting takes place. In December and January work in Medicinarelängan may at some times lead to increased noise. All three weeks the trucks will use the north gate close to EBM for both entry and exit. Thursday, December 12, the spare blast time…
Contract for collaboration on information about rare diagnoses with the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare to be discontinued
COLLABORATION. On February 15 next year, the current contract with the National Board of Health and Welfare for the assignment to produce and update its database of rare diagnoses will be discontinued. Because the assignment is ending, the University of Gothenburg has begun to shut down the Swedish Information Centre for Rare Diseases. The Swedish Information Centre for Rare Diseases (IRD) is a knowledge center for the dissemination of…
Older adults’ feedback now included in classic H70 study
STUDY. “Seventy is the new 50,” “Culture can protect against Alzheimer’s,” and “Obesity in older people boosts dementia risk.” For almost half a century, headlines like this have abounded in the more than 700 scientific articles and 60 theses published by the H70 study. Now the scientists have also begun to take an interest in how their research subjects perceive these comprehensive investigations of aging and its diseases. “Although the…
# SAjul19 – Win movie tickets with your photos of Christmas at Sahlgrenska Academy
COMPETITION. Show us your best pictures of Christmas at Sahlgrenska Academy on Instagram, and get the chance to win movie tickets! The competition is aimed at both staff and students at Sahlgrenska Academy. Just before Christmas, we select three winners who will receive two movie tickets each. You compete by tagging your image #SAjul19 and #sahlgrenskaakademin. on your own Instagram account. The pictures will be published both in Akademiliv and…
New 3R method to estimate lifespans developed by researchers in Gothenburg
STUDY. A new method published by researchers in Gothenburg in the journal Aging now enables a new approach to determine lifespan of mice in studies on aging. In addition to the improvement in research ethics that the method entails, it also provides a better scientific analysis of aging. Researchers often use mice to investigate whether different genes, treatments or lifestyles can result in healthy aging with, for example, retained cognitive…
Study shows lower mortality from induction of labor at 41 weeks
STUDY. Inducing labor after 41 instead of 42 full weeks’ pregnancy appears to be safer in terms of perinatal survival, new Swedish research shows. The current study is expected to provide a key piece of evidence for upcoming decisions in maternity care. In Sweden, the risk of a baby dying before, during or shortly after birth (“perinatal death”) is generally very low. However, a progressive rise in risk from a…
Successful study of Swedish vaccine candidate against diarrhea
STUDY. University of Gothenburg reports first successful results of the oral, inactivated vaccine candidate ETVAX against enterotoxigenic E. coli diarrhea in a placebo-controlled phase I/II study in infants and children from 6 months to 5 years of age in Bangladesh. All predefined primary endpoints for the study were achieved, showing that the vaccine candidate was safe and broadly immunogenic, stimulating immune responses to all key vaccine components. Only a few…
Current construction information for Medicinareberget – modules put up, and closed walkway
CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION. Here you find an overview of construction activities during the next few weeks that may affect you on different locations on Medicinareberget, not just where blasting takes place. On Thursday, November 28, the spare time at 15.00 may be used in order to divide some blocks that otherwise are too large to load. If you have any questions about the construction activities, please feel free to email to…
Matilda Ernkrans, Minister of Higher Education and Research, visited Sahlgrenska Academy
COOPERATION. How often should ALF evaluations be carried out? That was one of the issues that arose when Matilda Ernkrans, the Minister of Higher Education and Research, visited Sahlgrenska Academy. Our dean Agneta Holmäng also mentioned the importance of the large work effort required tom be included in the assessment. Another important issue that was raised was the need for health data for research, something that the Minister told us…
Eric Hanse: Investments in premises are a commitment to research and education
COLUMN. Sahlgrenska Academy needs to invest in its premises to continue to be an attractive alternative for students and researchers in the future. This is the conclusion of Eric Hanse, Vice Dean for infrastructure and premises, in his column that provides a summary of current premises development projects. Soon, Sahlgrenska Academy will need make a decision about upgrading our teaching and research premises so they address the needs of the…