THE SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL’S MAJOR CALL FOR PROPOSALS. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg will receive a total of SEK 150 million from the Swedish Research Council in the 2020 call for medicine and health research proposals. Eight young researchers are receiving starting grants, and 30 researchers are receiving project grants. In total, just over 15 percent of the available funds in the medicine and health call go to researchers…
Four researchers at the Institute of Medicine receive grants from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
GRANTS. Four researchers at the Institute of Medicine won approval for their applications to the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) and now will receive nearly SEK 18 million for their research. Karl Bonander and Leo Stockfelt have both received junior researcher grants, while Damon Barret and Lotta Dellve have received project grants. For the University of Gothenburg as a whole, 10 researchers will receive a…
Magnus Simrén receives major research grant from the Erling-Persson Family Foundation
GRANT. Magnus Simrén, professor of medical gastroenterology at the Institute of Medicine, has been awarded a SEK 9 million research grant from the Erling-Persson Family Foundation. The research project studies a newly discovered bacterial infection, which sheds new light on the common disease IBS. The research group will study the link between food intake and a recently discovered bacterial infection in the intestines of IBS patients with diarrhea symptoms, known as a…
Björn Redfors awarded an ERC Starting Grant
YOUNG RESEARCHERS. Björn Redfors has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of around SEK 15 million for his research on heart attacks. He wants to understand what happens when parts of the heart muscle are temporarily disabled during an acute heart attack, in hopes of developing better treatments. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Clinical Trials Center at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, he has…
Eight University of Gothenburg researchers received SEK 18 million from the Lundberg Research Foundation
GRANTS. The Lundberg Research Foundation has awarded grants to 19 researchers, primarily for equipment for use in research of cancer, orthopedics, and kidney diseases. Of the 36 million that the foundation has awarded, half is going to researchers at the University of Gothenburg. One of the researchers whose application was successful is Inger Gjertsson, who has been awarded SEK 2.5 million to purchase an advanced automated microscope. It will be…