On Thursday September 30, at 9:30 – 12:30, a drop-in vaccination bus will park outside the university’s main building in Vasaparken. Anyone born 2005 or earlier are welcome: students, staff and passers-by. It is possible both to start the vaccination with dose 1 and to receive your second dose of the vaccine. Swedish social security number is not needed to be vaccinated. Staff at the University of Gothenburg can be vaccinated against covid-19 during working hours without a salary deduction. The vaccination is free of charge. Bring your ID and, if you come for dose 2, please bring your vaccination card if possible.

On Wednesday 13 October, Sportson Patrol will come to Medicinareberget and offer bicycle service for SEK 700 (the regular price in the shop is SEK 900). You leave the bike in the morning between 8 and 9 in the Academicum’s courtyard, and pick it up in the afternoon. The work is a full service, and an inspection report is drawn up. Worn parts can also be replaced, for dditional cost of materials and work according to the ordinary workshop price list. Payment is made on site by card, cash or swish. Limited number of places – registration required: jonathan.danell@sportson.se

Akademiliv congratulates Helena Forsblad d’Elia on her professorship in rheumatology, which she combines with her position as chief physician at SU. She is researching inflammatory rheumatic back disease, so-called axial spondylarthritis (axSpA), a group of diseases that also to varying degrees affect organs outside the musculoskeletal system (so-called EAM) and other comorbidities. Helena Forsblad d’Elia has recently formed the multidisciplinary research group SPARG, which, with the help of biomarkers, clinical and demographic parameters, identifies factors that are important for the severity of the disease, EAM and comorbidity. The research is conducted with the help of well-characterized patient cohorts and national registers. Helena Forsblad d’Elia is responsible for term 6, Internal Medicine in the new medical program.

Sweden has invested almost as much funding in research on covid-19 as the other Nordic countries combined, writes the Swedish Research Council’s magazine Curie. According to a survey from Nordforsk, which Curie refers to, there are also major differences in how the countries have distributed the money between different subjects. Sweden, for example, has chosen to invest 80 percent of its funds in medical research, while Norway has invested 67 percent in research in the social sciences. Gunnar Öquist, Professor Emeritus at Umeå University, highlights the large private funds in Sweden as a possible explanation for Sweden having invested more money than the other Nordic countries.

On its website, the PIL unit provides tips and inspiration to teachers on how teaching can be made available to a group of students with individual variations and needs. The material also contains examples of common adaptations / pedagogical support for students with disabilities. Your institute and you as a teacher, you need to decide on some pedagogical support. This may, for example, be about approving an adaptation during an examination or that a student is allowed to record lectures in audio format for their own use. It is also good if teachers have a continuous dialogue with the student, who often has suggestions for solutions based on their situation.

Based on the organizations’ existing goals for social, economic and ecological sustainability, the University of Gothenburg and Akademiska Hus will now find the areas where it is possible to make the biggest difference together. In the new agreement, the parties have formulated a number of common sustainability goals where the focus is on the development of the physical environment, both indoors and outdoors. These include safe and accessible premises, reduced energy use, environmental certification for new construction and redevelopment, increased recycling and strengthening biodiversity. The next step is now to produce plans and activity lists so that the goals are transformed into concrete efforts.

Nelly Kanberg, doctoral student at the Institute of Biomedicine and resident at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, is one of three recipients of a SEK 25,0000 scholarship from Pfizer and the Swedish Infectious Diseases Association. Nelly Kanberg’s doctoral project is about the link between SARS-CoV-2 and possible neurodegenerative effects that in the long run could lead to increased vulnerability to dementia diseases including Alzheimer’s disease. The scholarship was awarded at Infection Week and Microbiological Meeting Online on September 16, 2021. The other two scholarship recipients are Johanna Kuhlin (KI) who researches multi-resistant tuberculosis and Lisa Labbé Sandelin (Uppsala University) whose research is about unusual tick born diseases.

Newly opened International House Gothenburg offers support and advice for internationally recruited employees in everything from career development and how the professional network can be built up, to how the Swedish business system and the school system work. International House also organizes several development programs that prepare for the Swedish labor market and support and activities for the accompanying partners and families. International House is a collaboration between the City of Gothenburg, Business Region Gothenburg and Region Västra Götaland, under the direction of Move to Gothenburg, where the University of Gothenburg is a partner. International House is a supplement to the support that Welcome Services and the institutions offer internally at the university.

Take the chance to hear Shalinia Andersson, who is Head of Oligonucleotide Discovery at AstraZeneca, when she is invited to speak at Sahlgrenska Academy Science Seminars this Thursday. She will talk about the development of oligonucleotide drugs and the possibilities with OligoNova Hub. At this national technology platform  Swedish researchers will be able to further develop their academic discoveries towards new oligonucleotide drugs, based on short DNA or RNA molecules. OligoNova Hub is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, SciLifeLab and the University of Gothenburg.

In conjunction with the 15th Congress of the International Society of Experimental Microsurgery, Mihai Oltean recently received the Sun Lee Outstanding Experimental Microsurgery Career Award. The award was established in 1998 and is given for long-term efforts in experimental research and education in microsurgery.  Among previous awardees some of the most prominent pioneers in the field in the world are found. Mihai Oltean is a surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and an associate professor at the Department of Surgery, University of Gothenburg, where he leads a doctoral course in experimental microsurgery.