AWARD. Do you know of a really good thesis that was defended last year? Until February 7, you can nominate for the Sahlgrenska Academy’s PhD Thesis of the Year award. The prize “PhD Thesis of the Year at Sahlgrenska Academy” has been awarded since 2009 and is funded by Dr Arnt Vestby’s Research Foundation. The purpose of the award is to recognize the contributions made by PhD students and their…
Report from this year’s PhD Studies Day on research ethics
PHD STUDIES. Misconduct in research, suspect journals, and plagiarism. This year’s PhD Studies Day focused on aspects of research ethics vital for doctoral students and their supervisors to know about. Use this link to download the three presentations of the day i PDF format (Sharefile). Khalil Helou and Thomas Carlsson are Academy-wide directors of studies for doctoral education at Sahlgrenska Academy. Khalil began by listing some important changes for doctoral…
New episode of the Swedish podcast Akademiliv – with diabetes researcher Emanuel Fryk
PODCAST. Guest in this episode of the podcast Akademiliv is Emanuel Fryk, a doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg and a doctor at a health center, who will soon be defending his dissertation which is specifically about the protein galectin-1 in type 2 diabetes. The podcast is in Swedish. For over a hundred years, we have known that type 2 diabetes can lead to complications and that the disease…
A touching ceremony for the Thesis of the Year
AWARD. Six of this year’s seven award recipients attended the touching award ceremony for the Thesis of the Year. The ceremony also gave a vivid account of pediatrician Arnt Vestby, whose donation funds the Thesis of the Year awards at Sahlgrenska Academy. During 2021, 140 doctoral students defended their theses, with seven of these being honored during the award ceremony–one award for each of the six institutions and one for…
Thesis on optimized treatment of tuberculosis receives award
DOCTORAL THESIS OF THE YEAR. Jesper Sundell’s thesis concerns ways of improving treatment for tuberculosis, especially for the vulnerable group of patients who also have the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The thesis has now been named Sahlgrenska Academy’s 2021 Doctoral Thesis of the Year. Dr. Arnt Vestby’s Research Foundation funds the Doctoral Thesis of the Year award. Seven theses publicly defended last year have received awards, one for each department…