NEW EQUIPMENT. Malignant melanoma, winter vomiting disease and nephritis are some research areas that can derive great benefits from the new high-tech equipment now available in Sweden and Gothenburg, thanks to a grant from IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg’s Research Foundation. With correlative light-electron microscopy, researchers can now acquire better research data in less time. It is like seeing the Manhattan skyline in the night full of light, and then during the…
New findings on B cells in gut vital for vaccine research
STUDY. In a new study, recently published in Nature Communications, researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy show that B cells that mature into IgA-producing plasma cells in the intestine differ from other B cells in having a special ability to react to the intestinal contents. These findings have a bearing on further development of vaccine taken orally and absorbed by mucous membranes. The study demonstrates that, of the B cells that mature…
Davide Angeletti receives ERC Starting Grant
GRANTS. Davide Angeletti, who has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Biomedicine for one year, has now been awarded one of the most prestigious grants a young European researcher can receive: the ERC Starting Grant. The grant from the European Research Council gives him more than SEK 15 million for his basic research on antibodies and B cell immunological mechanisms. Eventually Davide Angeletti’s research probably will help…
Cancer researchers attend a wide-ranging meeting in Gothenburg
Caption: Panel discussion participants, from left, Claes Gustafsson, assistant head of the Institute of Biomedicine; Peter Naredi, head of the Institute of Clinical Sciences; Agneta Holmäng, dean of Sahlgrenska Academy; Johanna Svensson, head of the Department of Oncology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital; Thomas Björk-Eriksson, director of Regional Cancer Center West; and Ann-Marie Wennberg, director of Sahlgrenska University Hospital. CONFERENCES. The first Gothenburg Cancer Meeting (GCM2019) took place on May 6-7…
Karolina Sjöberg Jabbar receives postdoctoral scholarship from KAW
GRANTS. Thanks to a scholarship from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW), Karolina Jabbar will serve for two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute, part of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “It is a very advantageous and generous scholarship that represents a fantastic opportunity to gain experience in a very special environment at the leading edge of biomedical research,” says Karolina Sjöberg…