GRANTS. Sven Enerbäck, a professor of medical genetics at Sahlgrenska Academy, now joins the select team of researchers taking part in the Swedish Research Council’s Distinguished Professor program. The appointment as a Distinguished Professor provides him with SEK 50 million over 10 years. Only the most prominent, senior researchers can be considered for the Swedish Research Council’s Distinguished Professorship. The call for proposals was open to internationally leading researchers with…
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s Diagnostics Accelerator Makes Major Investment to Fast Track Development of Novel Biomarkers
GRANT. Professor Henrik Zetterberg at the University of Gothenburg will head a major European research collaboration, which is developing a significantly easier way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease at an early stage through a blood test. Such a test could offer the potential for developing new treatments for Alzheimer’s and related dementias. . Through its Diagnostics Accelerator, the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) – a U.S. based non-profit – is committed…
Nearly SEK 120 million from Swedish Research Council within medicine and health
GRANTS. Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy share nearly SEK 120 million in starting grants and project grants from the Swedish Research Council within the call for medicine and health grant applications. Four young researchers are receiving starting grants providing them with a total of SEK 6 million each. This means that Gothenburg is receiving a quarter of SRC’s investment in young researchers in this call for applications. “I would like…
Eridan Rocha Ferreira awarded SEK 1 million grant from the Hasselblad Foundation
GRANTS. Eridan Rocha Ferreira, a researcher working in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, is one of two recipients of this year’s grants from the Hasselblad Foundation that support female researchers and expanding their qualifications in the natural sciences. The grant provides SEK 1 million and the opportunity to become established as an independent researcher. Her research concerns reducing mortality and morbidity in connection…
Six receive grants from Lundberg Foundation
GRANTS. Lill Mårtensson, Jonas Nilsson, Michael Olausson, Ruth Palmer, Diana Swolin-Eide and Peter Thomsen are receiving a total of almost SEK 17 million from the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation, primarily for the purchase of apparatus, aids and equipment related to cancer, renal disease and orthopedics. The largest grant, SEK 5 million, was awarded to Jonas Nilsson’s project on malignant melanoma, which aims at creating cell therapies for patients…