GRANTS. Seven researchers in Gothenburg was endorsed for their applications to The Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation. One of the researchers who receive grants are Anders Ståhlberg, Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine. His research projects was awarded SEK 600 000 over two years to develop an accurate method to monitor treatment and detect relapses in patients with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. The method is based on analyzing…
Volkan Sayin will be a postdoc in New York with Swedish Research Council funding
GRANT. Volkan Sayin has received just over SEK 3 million from the Swedish Research Council’s call for proposals for international postdocs. He defended his thesis last year with a dissertation that showed that antioxidants increase lung cancer aggressiveness, a finding he will continue with as a postdoc in New York. Can you describe the group you will be doing your postdoc with? “I decided to do my postdoc with Dr.…
A turbulent week for Martin Bergö
ATTENTION GETTING RESULTS. Interest in the study of the effects of antioxidants on malignant melanomas has been enormous. However, criticism has also been forthcoming from people in the dietary supplements industry. Martin Bergö explains the background of the discovery, the resulting commotion – and about being nominated as this Year’s Confuser. How has the past week been? “The telephone has rung nearly nonstop and journalists from England, USA, China, Mexico,…
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…
Play on breast cancer is followed by lectures
Gothenburg City Theatre shortly opens the play They shall be two which is a humorous and affectionate portrayal of a woman’s heroism on the way through treatment and recovery from breast cancer. After each performance there will also be a lecture, and first up is Martin Bergö, professor at the Sahlgrenska Academy. Both play and lecture are given in Swedish. They shall be two is a play for all, about our way of dealing with…