The annual research catalog from Area 1 within Sahlgrenska University Hospital and the section for women’s and children’s health at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, is now available. The purpose of the catalog is to gather information about this important activity in a document that is available to everyone who works at the hospital, within the Västra Götaland region and at Sahlgrenska Academy and University of Gothenburg, but also for researchers at other university hospitals as well as the general public, who want to take part of the research. Read the digital version of the catalogue here (in Swedish only).

The new collaboration laboratory that is currently being built in the Image and Intervention Center (BoIC) will be named SahlBEC Lab (Sahlgrenska Biomedical Engineering Collaboration Laboratory). The laboratory will be ready in August, and the inauguration will take place on October 6, 2021. Anyone who wants to use the laboratory and its equipment in microwaves and biomagnestism will be able to apply, and a scientific council will prioritize among these users. Users can be companies, researchers who want to validate their own concept, suppliers who work with components for these technologies or researchers who need an extremely protected and quiet room, where no electric waves interfere, and also those who need lab space near patients.

You can now apply for assignments as a teacher in the basic course in supervision and learning for ST doctors in the new medical education (info in Swedish only). It is thus a supervisor training course for the doctors who supervise medical students. Applicants must be specialist doctors with an interest in, and previous experience of clinical supervision of medical students. You must be a permanent employee (or co-opted) at Sahlgrenska Academy. The scope of the assignment corresponds to 10% of full-time where compensation is paid to the institute concerned. The assignment is limited in time to two years with effect from 1 January 2022.The application with the specified reference number is sent via email to Åsa Örjefelt, Sahlgrenska Academy’s office asa.orjefelt@gu.se
The last day to apply is 23 June 2021.

This year, teachers holding a permanent position at Sahlgrenska Academy can apply for the title Excellent teacher during the period October 1st- November 30th, 2021. The review, which takes place at Sahlgrenska Academy, is based on the applicant’s documented and reflected pedagogical practice and is based on the university’s common assessment criteria. The three conditions that must be met are a subject basis, higher education pedagogical education (or review of equivalent knowledge) and a research connection. Read further in the Staff Portal.

Damon Barrett, Assistant Senior Lecturer at the Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, Institute of Medicine, is one of a total of eleven researchers admitted as SIGHT Fellows at The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. The researchers are at different stages of their careers, and represent several disciplines and research fields. The SIGHT Fellows Program helps researchers to investigate and develop an interdisciplinary approach within selected themes in global health. A long-term goal of the program is to support collaborations between universities to contribute to the implementation of the UN’s global goals according to Agenda 2030. The career development program runs 2021–2023, and is funded by the Board for International Development Cooperation, Sida.

The parties within Sahlgrenska Life have agreed that the program review for buildings 2 and 3 will be extended by two months, until September 3. As the working group for translational clusters needs to be coordinated with building 1, this work will be extended until the end of October. The extension means that the subsequent system phase is delayed by one month, but since decision-making processes have been streamlined, the project’s end time is not affected.
During the program review, the operations are placed in the house based on their need for space and the need for being interlinked in the buildings. This is followed by the so called system phase during which the project is refined with further processing.

The service Secure storage is now launched. Secure storage is a service for storing data with a high protection value (information class 3), ie data that may not be stored in any of the university’s other storage areas or tools. To use the service, secure login via MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) is required. This means that as a user, you need to verify yourself both via your x account and via your mobile phone to log in. When logging in, Freja eID PLUS is the service used in the first hand with Microsoft Authenticator as the second option. Read further in the Staff Portal.

After consultation with Deans, the Vice-Chancellor has decided on a common timetable for a return. From the start of the autumn term, an adapted and gradual return to campus-based activities will begin in accordance with each division’s respective activities, their circumstances and necessary planning. The ambition is that the return to a mainly campus-based activity will be completed in October, provided that the government’s plan for opening of society is shown to be working. Therefore the return must take place in an orderly manner and with regard to prevailing restrictions and the spread of infection. More information in the Staff Portal.

A research group at the University of Gothenburg is now looking for healthy study participants with a BMI between 30-35. For eight hours a day for five weeks, study participants must wear a weight vest. The study, which runs for a total of ten weeks, is based on the discovery that body weight and fat mass decrease if you carry artificial weights, which the research group has previously shown in both experimental animals and humans. The results indicate that the body has some sort of built-in bathroom scale that is part of an equilibrium system that strives to keep body weight constant, and is called the gravitostat. Here you can read more about the study and register your interest.

When the application period for the spring ALF announcements closed at midnight on June 1st, a total of 510 applications had been received (419 for ALF project funds 2022-2024, and 91 applications for ALF project funds for younger researchers 2022-2024). In the next step, the applications will be formally reviewed and then submitted for review during the summer and autumn. The review work is carried out by appointed assessment groups consisting of internal and external assessors with broad and mixed competence. After preparation in Medi-sam Forskning, an overall proposal for allocation is submitted to Hälso-sam for decision. Applicants will receive notification no later than December 2021.