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…
AFA finances study on the spread of COVID-19 in geriatric care
GRANTS. Johan Ringlander, doctoral student in virology, has been awarded just over SEK 1 million from AFA Försäkring for a study on COVID-19 in geriatric care in Gothenburg. Together with his fellow researchers, he will examine virus and antibody samples from staff who feel healthy and from those who stay home from work with symptoms. Many people infected with SARS-CoV-2 hardly have any symptoms or very mild ones. Since staff…
Eight COVID-19 projects led from Gothenburg with support from SciLifeLab
GRANTS. Reserchers in Gothenburg are leading eight of the projects related to COVID-19 that have now received funding through the initiative from SciLifeLab and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Just after the start of the pandemic, SciLifeLab, together with the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW), launched a national challenge for researchers to create a comprehensive research program in nine fields to fight the disease. The call totaled SEK…
New project investigates why some people can remain on the job despite mental illness
GRANTS. Gunnel Hensing, a professor of social medicine, will receive almost SEK 4 million from AFA Insurance to investigate what factors can enable an individual to work, despite mental illness. “Many studies deal with factors that keep people from remaining at work. And by remaining at work, we mean primarily whether they are on sick leave or not,” says Gunnel Hensing, who works at the School of Public Health and…
Karin Granqvist awarded the Florence Nightingale Scholarship
SCHOLARSHIP. Karin Granqvist, an operating room nurse and doctoral student at Sahlgrenska Academy, has been awarded the Swedish Society of Nursing’s Florence Nightingale Scholarship, which is only given once in connection with the 200th birthday of this pioneering nurse. The scholarship is SEK 50,000. It is awarded in the field of hygiene, an area Florence Nightingale and her colleagues were widely recognized for in connection with their lifesaving work caring…