GRANTS. Annika Rosengren and Bright Nwaru are to receive SEK 13 million each for their research projects in the Swedish Research Council’s register-based research call. The money will generate new knowledge of several major common diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The award means that Institute of Medicine will receive a quarter of the total grant amount, SEK 102 million, through the national call.…
Emma Aneheim receives Swedish Cancer Society fellowship
GRANTS. With her colleagues, she is working on developing a treatment based on targeted radiation therapy, which may improve the chances of preventing relapses in ovarian cancer. Emma Aneheim, a researcher at the Department of Radiation Physics, has now received a fellowship through the Swedish Cancer Society’s Fellowship in Ovarian Cancer Research. Ovarian cancer is usually treated with surgery, followed by anti-cancer drugs. Because the disease has often spread into…
Alessandro Camponeschi receives post-doctoral research position from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund (Barncancerfonden)
GRANTS. Alessandro Camponeschi, a researcher at the Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, has received a two-year postdoctoral research position from Barncancerfonden, starting this autumn. He is one of in total five researchers at University of Gothenburg who recieve a grant from the foundation. The project concerns acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), one of the most common forms of cancer in children affecting the bone marrow and blood. About 85 percent of the…
Hearing loss – a major obstacle for language learning among new arrivals
ALF POSITION. For those establishing themselves in a new country, learning the language has top priority, but hearing loss can throw a wrench in the works. Nina Pauli, ear-nose-throat doctor and researcher at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, recently received an ALF position, where she will investigate such aspects as how common hearing loss is among people born abroad. The incidence of hearing loss and chronic ear infection is different in…
Tanmoy Mondal receives Swedish Research Council Starting Grant
GRANTS. Tanmoy Mondal, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, is now starting his own team to study long non-coding RNA and cancer. He has been awarded a Swedish Research Council Starting Grant, giving him a total of SEK 6 million over the next four years. Usually the Swedish Research Council announces grant decisions in October, but Molndal received his gratifying news in February.…