APPOINTMENT. The other night, during the live TV-gala ‘Together Against Cancer’ in TV4, Ruth Plmers was appointed Cancer Researcher of the Year by the Cancer Foundation’s research board. Ruth Palmer, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Sahlgrenska Academy aims to find new treatment methods for neuroblastoma, a cancer that primarily affects children. The TV-gala Tillsammans mot cancer (‘Together Against Cancer’) was broadcasted live nationwide on Monday, January 7, 2019. You…
Four biomedical researchers receive grants from Formas
GRANTS. Four researchers, including Carl-Fredrik Flach and Sara Lindén, received grants from the Formas call for proposals. Their projects are about the risk of antibiotic resistance in wastewater and the protective mucus layer of fish. At Sahlgrenska Academy Joakim Larsson and Heléne Norder also received grants from the call for proposals. Formas (the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning) funds research for ecologically, economically and socially…
Joakim Larsson added to list of world’s most highly cited researchers
CITATIONS. Four researchers from Sahlgrenska Academy are included in the 2018 list of the world’s most highly cited researchers. Kaj Blennow, Karl Swedberg and Henrik Zetterberg were all on the list last year, and this year they are also joined by Joakim Larsson. This is the fifth year in a row that Clarivate Analytics, the analytical firm that owns the Web of Science, is publishing its list of the world’s…
Jan Holmgren awarded world’s biggest global health award
year’s recipients of Prince Mahidol’s Award in Public Health. He is receiving the award for leading the development of the world’s first effective drinkable cholera vaccine and also for transferring the technology, so the vaccine can be produced on location in developing countries. Along with this year’s runner-up, American Professor John Clemens, he has also shown that the cholera vaccine has the potential to eradicate cholera in developing countries. “This…
New data confirms antioxidants accelerate spread of malignant melanoma
DOCTORAL THESIS. Now there is additional evidence of the connection between the intake of antioxidant supplements and increased tumor growth. Experiments on animals and human cancer tissue confirm that addition of some antioxidants increases the growth of the severe malignant melanoma type of skin cancer. “This is not the way to treat cancer. In the best case the treatment makes no difference, but it can also exacerbate the disease,” says…