By turning down the activity of a specific, so-called RNA molecule, researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy have cured lung tumors in mice by 40-50 percent. The results, published in Nature Communications, represent the tip of the iceberg in an extensive research project in which 633 new biomarkers for 14 types of cancer have been identified. A research group led by Chandrasekhar Kanduri, professor of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, studied how…
A fresh start in the Medical Program – just a few years after escaping the war
STUDENT. For two of the students who have now enrolled in the Medical Program in Gothenburg, the courses truly represent a fresh start. Not long ago Atiya and Sara individually made the dangerous journey from the war in the Middle East through Europe to Sweden. Atiya Alzouby, 24, and Sara Rizk, 20, listen intently when Professor Per Lindahl begins the morning’s lecture on the medical history and structure of cells.…
Thaher Pelaseyed receives SSMF’s Large Grant
GRANT. Thaher Pelaseyed, who recently returned to Gothenburg after a postdoc at Cornell University, is now establishing his own independent lab, focusing on a new type of surface receptors in intestinal cells. He as just secured funding for the next four years, thanks to a generous grant from Swedish Society for Medical Research (Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forskning, or SSMF). SSMF’s Large Grant goes to promising young scientists who are…
Teresa Lagergård: “With knowledge, we conquer fear”
EMERITI. Whooping cough, meningitis and venereal diseases. Teresa Lagergård has devoted her research life to various bacterial infections, and she believes that the current vaccination debate is a difficult struggle between knowledge and emotion. People afflicted with chancroid get sores on their genitals that are difficult to heal, which increases the risk of contracting HIV tenfold. At the end of 1980s, little was known about the disease, which spread among…
Maria Rosvall and Kjell Olmarker receive research grants from AFA Försäkring
GRANTS. Two of the ten research projects that AFA Försäkring (AFA Insurance) chooses to fund are being carried out at Sahlgrenska Academy. Maria Rosvall, professor of social medicine at the Institute of Medicine, is receiving a grant for a project that involves finding factors and markers that can be used to identify young adults who are at risk of contracting cardiovascular disease. Kjell Olmarker, professor of anatomy at the Institute…