RESEARCH MODEL. Currently available treatments for malignant melanoma can cure certain patients – but not all. A group of researchers from the Sahlgrenska Cancer Center at the University of Gothenburg have demonstrated that an advanced new animal model known as “avatar mice” can be used in research to understand why treatment is not always successful, and by extension improve the prognosis for this form of skin cancer. Their findings are…
Flexible new method for early cancer diagnosis
RESEARCH. Earlier discovery of cancer and greater precision in the treatment process are the objectives of a new method developed by researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy and Boston University. Investments are now being made to roll out this innovation across healthcare and broaden the scope of the research in this field. “We can screen at-risk patient groups, and we also plan to spot the cancer patients who are relapsing so that…
Taking sabbatical in the US with support from SSF
CONTRIBUTION. Sukanya Raghavan, Associate Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, will shortly take a sabbatical from the Sahlgrenska Academy, to work at Merck Research Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. Her position as guest researcher in the US is funded by contributions from SSF’s call in the strategic mobility. What does the mobility grant mean for your research and for you? The Mobility grant from SSF gives me the…
More than SEK 50 million from the Swedish Cancer Societ
Caption: Chandrasekhar Kanduri receives one of the larger grants from the Swedish Cancer Society – SEK 1,250,000 for the project on long non-coding RNA in tumor development and tumor progression. GRANTS. 28 researchers at the University of Gothenburg are receiving a total of more than SEK 50 million in the Swedish Cancer Society’s latest call for proposals. Chandrasekhar Kanduri, Professor of Medical Genetics, especially RNA epigenetics at the Department of…
Antioxidants cause malignant melanoma to metastasize faster
NEW STUDY. Ny forskning vid Sahlgrenska akademin visar att antioxidanter fördubblar spridningen av malignt melanom i möss. Resultaten stärker forskarnas tidigare studier som visar att antioxidanter påskyndar lungcancer. Cancerpatienter och personer med en ökad risk för cancer bör därför få rådet att undvika kosttillskott med antioxidanter, anser professor Martin Bergö. Fresh research at Sahlgrenska Academy has found that antioxidants can double the rate of melanoma metastasis in mice. The results reinforce…