AWARD. Five questions with doctoral student Josefin Larsson, who won an award for the best poster in the pain syndromes category at the Pain in Europe congress. See the award winning poster further down! Among 956 posters, yours was one of the four awarded at the European Pain Federation’s yearly congress in Budapest. How did it feel? “Incredibly fun, of course! It’s a great acknowledgment of the relevance of the…
Axel Stenmark Tullberg received PhD Thesis of the Year award: ”The toughest part was switching off in the evening”
SCIENTIST PORTRAIT. Out of 39 dissertations, one was selected. Axel Stenmark Tullberg shares his joy over receiving the PhD Thesis of the Year award at the Institute of Clincial Sciences. He talks about how his doctoral project consumed a significant part of his life. And the mixed feelings of nervousness and excitement as he prepares for his next adventure at Stanford, California. He was one of 39 individuals who completed…
Juan Lantero Rodriguez, writer of Thesis of the Year 2022 at Sahlgrenska Academy
DISTINCTION. Juan Lantero Rodriguez, now a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, has been awarded the Faculty-wide “Thesis of the Year” distinction at Sahlgrenska Academy in 2022. In his thesis, he developed several new biomarkers for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases that are measurable in blood samples. The “Thesis of the Year at Sahlgrenska Academy” prize, awarded since 2009, is financed by a donation from Dr…
Seeking solutions to malnutrition in Rwanda
COLLABORATION. A major research project is underway in Rwanda to investigate the factors that lead to malnutrition among young children, with the aim of enabling more children to grow and develop normally. One of the researchers working on the project is Diane Rinda, a doctoral student at both the University of Gothenburg and the University of Rwanda. As in many other low-income countries, malnutrition is common among young children in…
Josefin Larsson winner in the competition Three Minute Thesis
DOCTORAL STUDENT. Josefin Larsson, PhD student at the Institute of clinical sciences, won won the People’s Choice award in the Three Minute Thesis competition, recently held during the International Science Festival in Gothenburg. She also got to share tha award in the category ‘The jury’s favourite’ with Tjeerd Fokkens, PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science. The competition requires doctoral students to present the subject…