NEW STUDY. As the average age of the global population rises, so does the incidence of stroke, particularly among women. To reduce the risk of stroke and improve treatment of women, healthcare professionals and policymakers must acknowledge differences between the sexes and adopt gender-specific guidelines around the world. A new Nature Reviews in Neurology article states the case emphatically. A group of researchers from Women Initiative for Stroke in Europe…
Member of Future Faculty? Help to fine-tune your application to the Swedish Research Council
YOUNG RESEARCHERS. There are good opportunities available for Sahlgrenska Academy to secure project funding for young researchers from the Swedish Research Council, the Grants and Innovation Office and Future Faculty can confirm; the latter is now offering its members the chance to attend a practical two-day workshop that will help them to fine-tune their applications for this funding. Over the past few years, only a small number of young researchers…
Completed report on student psychosocial working environments
STUDY ENVIRONMENT. A good social atmosphere, pride in their education and high commitment. But also widespread stress-related illness and worry about future stress and responsibilities at work. This is shown in the report on the psychosocial working environments of Sahlgrenska Academy students, which is also going to be followed up by additional studies and planned interventive actions. The survey was initiated by Sahlgrenska Academy’s dean at the time, Olle Larkö,…
Game app provides knowledge of person-centered care
INTER-ACTION. Click, swipe, listen to patients and follow the talk among the healthcare staff. Now, another step in the work towards a more person-centered care is being taken as the PCV game app is being launched. A virtual journey for greater knowledge and with tricky questions along the way. The game app was developed on behalf of the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care (GPCC), a research center that…
Advanced Animal Modeling Reveals New Ways of Treating Malignant Melanoma
RESEARCH MODEL. Currently available treatments for malignant melanoma can cure certain patients – but not all. A group of researchers from the Sahlgrenska Cancer Center at the University of Gothenburg have demonstrated that an advanced new animal model known as “avatar mice” can be used in research to understand why treatment is not always successful, and by extension improve the prognosis for this form of skin cancer. Their findings are…
Over SEK 150 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
GRANTS. Four professors at Sahlgrenska Academy will receive project funding totaling SEK 151.4 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. A further SEK 36 million will go to the Faculty of Science. “This is proof that our research is of the highest international caliber,” says Vice-Chancellor Eva Wiberg. The foundation primarily grants funding for basic research within medicine, technology and science. The funding provides researchers the opportunity to invest…
R building – an open meeting place and center for excellence
COLLABORATION. Last Friday saw the grand inauguration of R building at Mölndal hospital. The building will be a large space focusing on musculoskeletal functions and diseases, with the ambition to become a creative meeting place for researchers, students, colleagues and various patient groups. The first sod of earth for the large 7,000 m2 building was dug out in March 2015 and the project has cost almost quarter of a billion Swedish…
Fatal glandular cancer will soon be possible to treat
NEW STUDY. A new combination of existing drugs has been shown to block the cancer gene behind a fatal form of glandular cancer, adenoid cystic carcinoma. The findings from the Sahlgrenska Academy can lead to new treatment for patients with this disease relatively soon. Adenoid cystic carcinoma is a slow-growing but fatal form of cancer originating from different glandular tissues in for example the head and neck, the breast, the…
The measurement of particles in exhaled air aroused interest at the ERS Congress
COLLABORATION. During the European Respiratory Society Congress (ERS), a major event which recently concluded in Milan, several studies based on the PExA method were presented. PExA is a new method to monitor small airways by the measurement of droplets, i.e. particles, in exhaled air. Anna-Carin Olin, who leads the research group on breath analyses that has developed the PExA method, summarizes that the method had something of a breakthrough at…
Tour of Building R: On the way for the patient’s best
BUILDING R. Put one foot in front of the other. Usually, it is not especially complicated to walk. But Roy Tranberg and his colleague Roland Zügner in the walking lab in the new Building R look at walking with slightly different eyes than most of us. Roy Tranberg is a licensed orthopedic engineer and Doctor of Medical Science. Roland Zügner is a licensed physiotherapist specialized in orthopedics. And if all…
Helle Wijk and her co-editors received prestigious prize
AWARD. Helle Wijk from Sahlgrenska Academy recently received Studentlitteratur’s special prize for the book “Omvårdnad & äldre” [Nursing & the elderly] that she edited with three other researchers in the area of the elderly. The award ceremony was a festive occasion under the crystal chandeliers at Berns Salonger in Stockholm together with 550 of the publisher’s authors and employees. “It feels fantastic that the book is receiving this kind…
Come celebrate the Honorary Doctors of Sahlgrenska Academy 2017
Thursday October 19, our new honorary doctorates will receive congratulations at the Sahlgrenska Academy, with a social mixer and presentations in the auditorium Arvid Carlsson. All staff and students are welcome to attend! The event will be held in Swedish. ————– PROGRAM 09.30-10.00 Mingel med dryck och tilltugg i foajén utanför hörsal Arvid Carlsson, Academicum 10.00-10.05 Prodekanus Eric Hanse hälsar välkommen 10.05-10.10 Professor Agneta Holmäng presenterar hedersdoktor…
Berzelius silver medal to Jörg Hanrieder
AWARD. Jörg Hanrieder, Associate Professor at the section of psychiatry and neurochemistry, has been awarded this year’s silver Berzelius medal. He receives this award for his work in neuroproteomics, in particular for his development of novel tools for imaging mass spectrometry. This year’s Berzelius medals were handed out in Stockholm in late August, during the Euroanalysis conference, which this year attracted approximately 500 participants from 30 countries. “Of course it…
Gender photographer provides new views of working as a nurse
EQUALITY. When the Institute of Health and Care Sciences grew tired of the standard pictures of what it is like to work in healthcare, they chose to engage gender photographer Tomas Gunnarsson. Akademiliv was on hand at Queen Silvia’s Children’s Hospital when the photos were taken. Daniel Kjellberg recently completed his specialist training to become a pediatric nurse in Gothenburg, and is now working at one of the wards at…
Protein protects cells against saturated fats – finding of life science cooperation within GU
NEW STUDY. The protein PAQR-2 is specifically necessary to handle food that contains saturated fats. This discovery, which has now been published in the journal PLoS Genetics, is the result of long-term cooperation between research teams at the Faculty of Science and Sahlgrenska Academy. Fat is important to the human body, not just as a way to store energy, but also as an important building block. And every membrane that…
New treatment for osteoporosis provides better protection against fractures
NEW STUDY. A new treatment for osteoporosis provides major improvements in bone density and more effective protection against fractures than the current standard treatment. These are the findings of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The study is the first that compares the effect of two osteoporosis medicines on fractures. “With the new treatment, we could offer significantly better protection against fractures and could thereby…
First congress on uterus transplants held in Gothenburg
CONGRESS. Eight children born – and the first robot-assisted operation performed. These are some of the results of 18 years of research at Sahlgrenska Academy on uterus transplants. In Gothenburg, the elite of the research world in the field are now gathering for their first congress. In three years, from September 2014 to today, eight children in the world have been born to mothers who had fertilized eggs returned after…
Elisabet Jerlhag Holm receives this year’s Minor Fernström Prize
AWARD. This year’s Minor Fernström Prize at Sahlgrenska Academy goes to Elisabet Jerlhag Holm, Associate Professor in Pharmacology. She conducts research on what happens in the brain when we develop ad addiction to alcohol and other drugs, with the goal of identifying new medications that can treat patients with dependences. Elisabet Jerlhag Holm has done pioneering studies on neurobiological mechanisms for diseases of dependence by investigating various appetite-regulating hormones and their…
Teaching prize awarded – see Susannah Leach present the virtual laboratory session
AWARD. Susannah Leach, this year’s winner of Sahlgrenska Academy’s teaching prize has now officially received her reward. The prize was awarded by Vice Dean Silvana Naredi on Tuesday, 5 September, in connection with the meeting of the Education Council. During the meeting, several projects were presented that are conducted with support from teaching project funding at Sahlgrenska Academy. “This is a real high point during the year for us…
New students in public health science and global health mingled
EDUCATION. The autumn semester has gotten started and the students are back at Sahlgrenska Academy. Akademiliv was on hand this Thursday when new students were welcomed to the Public Health Science Program with Health Economics and the two international master’s programs, the Master’s Program in Global Health and the Master’s Program in Public Health Science with Health Economics. [See more pictures from this welcome mixer further down] Muwada Bashir, Ginika Uwakwe…