LEADERSHIP ASSIGNMENT. Since 2010 the Sahlgrenska Cancer Center has mobilized resources for cancer research in Gothenburg – an initiative that has paved the way for more research funding and the recruiting of top researchers. Jonas Nilsson has now succeeded Göran Stenman as director of the center. Nilsson heads a translational research collaboration on malignant melanoma, which focuses on a highly advanced animal model called PDX mice. He regards his appointment…
Gunnar C Hansson guest in Akademiliv the podcast (in Swedish)
RESEARCH. The podcast Akademiliv is back, and invited guest is Gunnar C Hansson, professor and world-leading researcher in mucin biology. In this podcast, we learn that the ‘C’ in his name stands for Claes, and he tells how his coworkers continue to investigate the thin and invisible mucus layer that protects our intestines from infection. Still, after thirty years of work in the field, we really know quite little about how the…
Seven researchers can purchase advanced equipment, thanks to grants from the Lundberg Foundation
GRANTS. IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg’s Research Foundation has chosen to provide a total of SEK 18 million to researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy to purchase new equipment. One of the researchers granted funding is Ulrika Islander, who is receiving SEK 3 million to buy a highly advanced confocal microscope. Ulrika Islander is a researcher at the Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, who investigates immunological mechanisms involved in the protective…
SEK 36 million for Ruth Palmer’s research on neuroblastoma
GRANTS. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is now investing SEK 36.7 million in research on neuroblastoma, a form of childhood cancer, that is headed by Professor Ruth Palmer at the University of Gothenburg. The large grant gives researchers access to new top-class analytical methods. The project is a collaboration among three research teams at Sahlgrenska Academy, the University of Gothenburg, and an equal number of teams at Karolinska Institutet.…
Young Fernström Prize to Erik Larsson Lekholm
DISTINCTIONS. Erik Larsson Lekholm is this year’s recipient at Sahlgrenska Academy of the Young Fernström Prize, or as the prize is officially known, the Eric K. Fernström Prize for young, particularly promising and successful researchers. Earlier this year Erik was also appointed professor of bioinformatics, with a special focus on large-scale analysis of DNA and RNA. The personal prize of SEK 90,000 is timely, Erik tells me when I meet…