GRANT. Thanks to advances in research, individuals with Down syndrome are living longer, and their quality of life has improved. However, up to 90 percent of those with Down syndrome develop Alzheimer’s disease. Researcher Laia Montoliu-Gaya is creating a method that can increase understanding of how Alzheimer’s develops in this group. Individuals with Down syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, have an extra copy of chromosome 21. The APP gene,…
Towards improved diagnostics for several types of dementia
GRANT. Twenty years of research have culminated in blood tests that can be used for clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Henrik Zetterberg, professor of neurochemistry, has just been awarded the European Research Council’s prestigious Advanced Grant to establish similar markers for other forms of dementia. Long-term research into clinical neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg has resulted in three well-established cerebrospinal fluid markers that are used around the world to…
Anders Rosengren receives Swedish Heart Lung Foundation’s Prevention Grant
GRANTS. This year’s recipient of the Swedish Heart Lung Foundation’s prevention grant of SEK 3 million is Anders Rosengren, a professor at the University of Gothenburg. He heads a project to investigate how a digital tool might help prevent cardiovascular disease. “Anders Rosengren’s study may open up a new way of preventing cardiovascular disease. The tool can easily be used by many people free of charge to encourage healthy living…
A total of SEK 195 million from VR in health and medicine
[This text will be up-dated] THE SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL’S OPEN CALL. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg will receive a total of SEK 195 million from the Swedish Research Council in the call for medicine and health in 2021. When this year’s grant decision was published, it was clear that the outcome for the University of Gothenburg was good: SEK 195 million, which corresponds to 18 percent of all the…
US financiers directing calls against covid-19
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…