COLLABORATION. Meet Alexis Rugamba, one of the ambitious doctoral students from Rwanda currently working on his doctorate at the University of Gothenburg. His research investigates why side effects are more common in populations on the African continent for a common chemotherapy treatment. Alexis Rugamba, age 34, pursued undergraduate studies in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Rwanda and earned his Master’s of Sciences in Medicine, Major of Cellular and Molecular…
Mapping outdoor environments for older adults
RESEARCH WITH IMPACT. There are no rules governing access to the outdoors and nature experiences for older adults at residential care facilities in Sweden. The University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology, and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences are conducting a joint research project that includes surveying the availability of outdoor environments for all residential care facilities in Sweden. The research project is part of the Gothenburg Research School of…
Nominate for the award “PhD Thesis of the Year”
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…