GRANTS. On behalf of the labor market parties, AFA Insurance allocates SEK 50 million to six new research projects within an R & D program with focus on research on working life without cardiovascular disease. Professor Fredrik Bäckhed and Professor Annika Rosengren lead two of the projects. Gut microbiota as treatment strategy in cardiovascular disease Obesity, high blood lipids and diabetes increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. While modern drugs…
Post-doctoral fellowship in the Medical Humanities (South Africa)
Re-considering lung disease in South Africa : the politics of data and materiality in a century of mine silicosis. Post-doctoral fellowship WITS INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH (WiSER) UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA In the present, and through our modern history, lung disease has been one of the key sites of politics in modern South Africa. This political importance is reflected in the richness of the science,…
Rosie Perkins trains researchers in scientific writing at the Wallenberg Laboratory
WRITING SUPPORT. For ten years, the Wallenberg Laboratory has had its own scientific editor, who scrutinizes both grant proposals and manuscripts before they are submitted. Rosie Perkins shares with us some of her best advice on how to significantly improve your grants and manuscripts. Rosie Perkins is rarely short of work at the Wallenberg Laboratory. She divides her time between refining papers for journals and grant applications to various funding…
Anders Clausen receives Ingvar Carlsson Award
AWARD. Anders Clausen, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, is among twelve young scientists to receive the 2015 Ingvar Carlsson Award. As a result, he has been granted SEK 4 million for his studies of RNA building blocks that are incorporated in DNA.
Queen Silvia awards scholarships to two Sahlgrenska Academy doctoral students
GRANTS. The Queen of Sweden presented scholarships from Queen Silvia’s Jubilee Fund for Research on Children and Children’s Disabilities during a ceremony at the Royal Palace of Stockholm on Wednesday, January 28. Two of the six doctoral students who received scholarships were from Sahlgrenska Academy.