GRANTS. Both schools and healthcare experience significant staff turnover and high sick leave. Studies show that the cause is often deficiencies in the organizational and social work environment, and that managers lack resources to address them. Magnus Åkerström, associate professor in occupational and environmental medicine at the University of Gothenburg, is awarded SEK 4,159,000 by Afa Insurance to investigate how preventive work environment efforts are organized, primarily in the public…
The autumn ALF announcements 2023 have been published
GRANTS. The call for ALF positions for registered doctors has now been published on the ALF portal. The application period is October 19 to December 7, 2023. Try-on research is also advertised for doctors interested in research and other health professionals who lack previous research experience. New for this year is that there is also a pilot call for an ALF position for licensed doctors with a doctorate in medicine…
Major research grant from the Assar Gabrielsson Foundation
GRANT. Stefan Kuczera and Alessandro Camponeschi have each received SEK 600,000 for high quality cancer research from the Assar Gabrielsson Foundation. Stefan is working on AI to improve advanced imaging for prostate cancer, while Alessandro’s research will help improve treatment for children with Burkitt lymphoma. Stefan Kuczera is a researcher at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, Department of Radiology. He is developing and applying deep neural network methods, a form of…
Striving towards treatments for steatotic liver disease
GRANT. Professor Stefano Romeo receives the equivalent of almost SEK 16 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The project may lead to the first effective treatment of fatty liver, where the disease is not caused by alcohol intake. This is the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Distinguish Investigator grant in Endocrinology, which will fund Stefano Romeo’s research for the next five years. A prolonged excess in sugar and fat intake will damage…
Contributing new knowledge to the long Covid puzzle
RESEARCH. At least 30,000 Swedes have been diagnosed with post-covid-19 condition during the first three years of the pandemic, according to Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare, but there is still a lack of knowledge about the condition, its causes, and how many people are affected. Maria Bygdell and Fredrik Nyberg, researchers at the Institute of Medicine, aim to find out more. We now have a good understanding of…