On May 7, it’s time for the springthesis fair in health, life science and technology. The purpose is to offer students at Gothenburg University and Chalmers the opportunity for interdisciplinary projects. The fair is primarily aimed at students at master’s level, but at Sahlgrenska Academy we also address bachelor’s students. Do you have a project that could be suitable for a degree project in health, life science and technology, or any other area that bridges the gap between the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Chalmers? Register your project by April 12 at the latest.

• Link to registration for supervisors – no later than April 12

The Swedish Research Council, Formas, Forte, and Vinnova have previously decided to fund publication with publishers that exclusively publish journals with Open Access. Agreements have now been reached with Frontiers, PLOS, MJS Publishing, and Copernicus. The four research funding agencies will cover the publication costs for 2024 and 2025 together. Each publisher has information about all participating organizations and handles the identification of authors/articles eligible for publication within the agreements. Since many publishers identify articles based on both specified affiliation and email domain, you should always use your gu.se address when submitting a manuscript.

If you have any questions about the agreements, you can contact the University Library.

The new Staff Portal will be launched in Sharepoint on April 8th. With this system switch, access to the content will require login with an x-account. The current Staff Portal is open to all visitors and doesn’t require any login. If you are a visitor and user of the current Staff Portal and don’t have a x-account but need access also after the launch, you’ll need to ensure this with your organization. The reason for requiring x-account login is to enable audience targeting of information and ensure secure usage of the Staff Portal.

More information about the project (in Swedish).

Person-centered care is the theme for week 12 on Sahlgrenska University Hospital’s Instagram account. There will be ten posts, two per day from Monday to Friday, focusing on various GPCC projects conducted at the Center for Person-Centered Care at the University of Gothenburg (GPCC), and how SU works with person-centered care. Don’t miss the opportunity to follow SU on Instagram: @sahlgrenska.

Clinical Studies Sweden has updated the information on the planning and implementation of registry-based randomized clinical trials (R-RCT). The new material is a resource that will facilitate the work of both experienced researchers who have previously conducted R-RCTs as well as those who are new to the field and want to conduct an R-RCT for the first time. Registry-based randomized clinical trials (R-RCTs) are defined as prospective randomized trials that to some extent use registries for their implementation.

• Do you want help with your R-RCT? Together with Registercentrum, Gothia Forum offers advice and support for Register-based randomized clinical trials (R-RCT).
• Contact us for a one-hour free consultation  (contact form).

Students in research (SiF) is now looking for enthusiastic PhD students who are willing to participate in the project “PhD student for a day”. This is a project organized by SiF (Studenter i Forskning/”Students in research”) where students at Sahlgrenska Academy get to follow a PhD student for a day. Do you want to inspire and engage students to be involved in research? Then join us in this project!

To participate, fill in this form: https://forms.gle/EYGSegYVDc71paMe9
You’ll find more information about the project in the form.

Researcher Aidin Rawshani and colleagues have been awarded a prestigious top-ten ranking by European Heart Journal, for their paper on complications and risk factors in type 2 diabetes, published in the journal Circulation. European Heart Journal is an official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, and the award gives a position among the most prominent scientific publications in the field in 2023. Aidin Rawshani works at the institute of Medicine, and is a resident physician in cardiology and internal medicine at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

• Read further about the award: The year in cardiovascular medicine 2023: the top 10 papers in diabetes and metabolic disorders
• The article: Twenty Years of Cardiovascular Complications and Risk Factors in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Nationwide Swedish Cohort Study

Lena Öhman, a professor in immunology at the Institute of Biomedicine, has been awarded a SEK 500’000 grant by STINT to conduct a teaching Sabbatical in Singapore from August to December 2024. She will participate in teaching activities within the medical program at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKC), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. STINT provides opportunities for university teachers at Swedish institutions to teach at one of its partner universities in Asia or the USA for a semester. Teachers can receive grants after being nominated as candidates from their own institutions.

Learn more about STINT here; STINT – Stiftelsen för internationalisering av högre utbildning och forskning

An invitation to teachers that might be interested in developing joint doctoral courses with Chilean universities. This call is offered by ACCESS, a platform promoting and facilitating academic collaboration between Chile and Sweden. For more information about ACCESS and this call, please visit PhD Call 2023 — ACCESS (accesschilesweden.org)