Thomas Nilsson and his colleague Peter Andiné look out over Rården’s courtyard. Photo: Anna Rehnberg.GRANTS. Forensic psychiatry patients form a broad and complex group, making it difficult to leverage knowledge between countries in the field. A project led by the University of Gothenburg, which has now received funding from the Swedish Research Council, will provide systemic knowledge that ultimately will provide better forensic psychiatric care. The project, which has now…
Big investments at Core Facilities: SEK 30 million from the Swedish Research Council
INFRASTRUCTURE. This year, a total of SEK 30 million has been granted Core Facilities by the Swedish Research Council. The funds are to cover new investments in current infrastructure, but also the start-up of a new infrastructure of national interest. The Centre for Cellular imaging (CCI) has been granted SEK 7.5 million, Proteomics Core Facility (PCF) SEK 13.6 million, and Mammalian Protein Expression (MPE) has been granted SEK 8.5 million…
Eight researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy receive funding from the Lundberg Foundation
GRANTS. Of the SEK 37 million that has just been awarded by the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation, most goes to researchers from the University of Gothenburg. Professor Eva Forssell-Aronsson has been given the biggest grant. She can now buy a combined magnetic resonance scanner and positron camera for conducting research on radioactive pharmaceuticals to treat metastatic cancer. Eva Forssell-Aronsson, a medical physicist and professor of medical radiation physics,…
Ka-Wei Tang receives SSMF’s Large Grant
GRANTS. Ka-Wei Tang is one of two researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy to receive this year’s Large Grant from the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF). He conducts research on viruses that cause cancer and is well on the way to developing a new strategy for a possible treatment for cancer caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, a virus that almost all adults carry. Ka-Wei Tang’s research spans basic and clinical science…
Swedish Research Council awards SEK 15 million for follow-up of COVID-19 vaccines
GRANTS. A research team at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital has received SEK 15 million from the Swedish Research Council for follow-up studies of COVID-19 vaccines. “This involves looking at the protective effect in the long term and how good it is in different groups,” says Magnus Gisslén, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Gothenburg and chief physician in the infection clinic at Sahlgrenska…