Ingrid Vinsa has been appointed Director at the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre (GNC). Ingrid will take over the responsibilities of her predecessor, Professor Eva Billstedt. Since 2011 Ingrid has worked at the GNC as administrator and Professor Christopher Gillberg’s personal assistant. Since 1998, she has worked both clinically and administratively in research studies at the University of Gothenburg. She is also a registered professional nurse in the USA.

Juan Lantero Rodriguez, now a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, receives the faculty-wide award Thesis of the Year at Sahlgrenska Academy 2022. In his thesis “Novel cerebrospinal fluid and blood tau biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases” he has developed new biomarkers for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases that can be measured in blood. Akademiliv will get back with an interview with Juan. Other laureates at institute level are: Anna Wenger (biomedicine), Axel Stenmark Tullberg (clinical sciences), Malin Henriksson (medicine), Erik Lindgren (neuroscience and physiology), Anna Liss (odontology) samt Matilda Cederberg (health and care sciences).
The award is funded by Dr. Arnt Vestby’s Research Foundation.

Akademistatistik offers statistical and health-economic expertise to researchers and graduate students (doktorander) working at Sahlgrenska Academy and in the Västra Götaland region. They advise their clients in all aspects of statistical and health-economic work, from project formulation to the analyses required for journal publication.

• If you want to make an appointment please use their online booking system.
• Further information on Akademistatistik can be found on their homepage.

 

You who work within the Region Västra Götaland or the Sahlgrenska Academy have the opportunity to get a briefing from administrators at the Ethics Review Authority on how to make an application in the Ethix application system, regarding ethics for human research. Together with experienced researchers and reviewers of ethics applications, they go through what the most common errors and reasons for requests for supplementation are and what you as a researcher should think about. The occasion is a digital seminar, held in Swedish, Tuesday 30 May 13:00-14:30. Organizers are Gothia Forum and the Sahlgrenska Academy Research Support Office and the Council for Research Ethics, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg.

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Significantly more supervisors from the medical program are needed for the autumn interprofessional day on human rights, which will take place on Thursday 21 September at 12:00-16:30. The interprofessional day is given to students in semester 1 or 2 every semester. During the afternoon, the students have group discussions and carry out an assessment exercise in groups of about 25 students from different programs, where each group needs two supervisors, also from different programs. New supervisors are always allowed to supervise together with someone with experience. For doctoral students who need teaching time, this is a good opportunity as you tutor in pairs and thus expand your network! Supervisor training is offered on September 5.
Contact: elisabet.lonnermark@infect.gu.se, katja.laakso@neuro.gu.se  or birgit.reizer@gu.se.

 

The government is shortening the term of office of the boards of higher education institutions from three years to 17 months, in order to bring in people with security policy expertise, the editorial platform Dagens Arena reports. The reason is to avoid Swedish patents disappearing abroad. SUHF’s chairman Hans Adolfsson speaks out very critically, and believes that it is a restriction of the universities’ self-determination. The University of Gothenburg’s vice-chancellor Eva Wiberg is also strongly critical in her blog: “It is a very strong signal and a serious step towards increased political governance that is sent with this message”.

The University Board has decided that Carina Mallard and Max Petzold will be interviewed by the consultative assembly, as suggested by the recruitment committee. This means that Carina Mallard, Professor in Physiology, and Max Petzold, Professor in Health Science Statistics, will be interviewed by the consultative assembly on May 23rd.

The consultative assembly consists of 70 elected teachers, students, and other staff members whose job it is to present a position to the Board regarding the candidates. The final decision on who will be the next Pro-Vice-Chancellor will be made by the University Board on 14 June. He or she will take office on 1 July, along with new Vice-Chancellor Malin Broberg.

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• Staff Portal: Two Pro-Vice-Chancellor candidates suggested
• Staff Portal: Recruitment of Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor

BY: ULRIKA LUNDIN

Are you a possible candidate to be nominated to the Research Leader Initiative 2023-2024, a course for future research leaders? If so, contact your Head of institute!

The Research Leader Initiative (REAL) will be given for the 9th time and is now open for nominations from all departments at the University of Gothenburg. The initiative is designed for our future research leaders and covers leadership, group development, ethics, gender, grant writing and utilisation. The course will be given on eight separate occasions between August 2023 and May 2024.

In a hands-on approach, focus will be on practical elements based on each participant’s situation. Participants will acquire tools and methods that are directly and individually applicable.

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Håkan Tinnerberg, Associate Professor at the Institute of Medicine, receives SEK 3,479,000 from AFA Försäkring to measure nanoparticles in various workplaces. With new technology, the researchers will investigate how much of such such particles the employees ingest , which was previously not possible. They will also measure the presence of nanoparticles in air and in particular investigate the new nanomaterial graphene. Nanomaterials are common in the manufacturing industry and are found, among other things, in welding fumes, diesel fumes and smoke in emissions from 3D printers. They can cause inflammation and contribute to cardiovascular disease, but risk assessments of such materials need to be improved.

The University of Gothenburg allocates parts of its research funding based on external funds and publications. The publication database GUP forms the basis of the information on publications. In order to be included in the compilation of data for next financial year all publications published in 2022 must be registered in GUP no later than Wednesday May 3, 2023.

Please make sure to pay particular attention to complete and correct details on:  affiliation, year, doi, and ISBN/ISSN, based on the original publication. To complete the quality control click on “Review”.

It is possible to view publication lists for departments and individual researchers, please see the tab “Publication lists”. Your own publication list is found under tab “My publications”.

For any questions please contact GUP support: gup@ub.gu.se  or 031-786 66 71.