GRANTS. Akademiliv lists a number of US calls that are now open for application. A call from David Clark Cause and IBM for open source solutions Call: 2020 Call for code Global Challenge: https://developer.ibm.com/callforcode/get-started/covid-19/ National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIH Partnerships for Countermeasures against Select Pathogens: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-20-028.html NIH Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): AWS AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative…
Report from the meeting at Östra Hospital ahead of this year’s major ALF funding
ALF FUNDING. Recently Pro-Dean Henrik Hagberg and R&D Director Caterina Finizia held the first of three planned meetings at different hospitals within Sahlgrenska University Hospital to provide information in preparation for the major application round for ALF project funding and ALF project funding for younger researchers 2021–2023. Akademiliv reports from the first meeting, which was held at Östra Hospital. The second meeting, planned to be held in at Sahlgrenska Hospital…
Inger Ekman and Håkan Tinnerberg receive funds from AFA
CONTRIBUTIONS. Two projects at Sahlgrenska Academy have been awarded funding from AFA, in the total sum of SEK 3.2 million. Inger Ekman will investigate how a person-centered approach affects the health care staff’s work environment, while Håkan Tinnerberg’s project is about chimney sweepers’ exposure to soot. Inger Ekman, professor at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences and one of the research leaders at The Gothenburg University Centre for Person-centred…
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…
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…