GRANT. When the Swedish Research Council recently distributed its annual grant awards in medicine and health, researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy received SEK 155 million – the second largest amount in Sweden. The largest grant went to Kaj Blennow, Chandrasekhar Kanduri, Claes Gustafsson, Gunnar C Hansson and Mattias Lorentzon, who each received SEK 9 million over 5 years. Eric Hanse, deputy dean of Sahlgrenska Academy, is happy about the year’s financial bounty awarded by the…
Over SEK 150 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
GRANTS. Four professors at Sahlgrenska Academy will receive project funding totaling SEK 151.4 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. A further SEK 36 million will go to the Faculty of Science. “This is proof that our research is of the highest international caliber,” says Vice-Chancellor Eva Wiberg. The foundation primarily grants funding for basic research within medicine, technology and science. The funding provides researchers the opportunity to invest…
Teaching prize awarded – see Susannah Leach present the virtual laboratory session
AWARD. Susannah Leach, this year’s winner of Sahlgrenska Academy’s teaching prize has now officially received her reward. The prize was awarded by Vice Dean Silvana Naredi on Tuesday, 5 September, in connection with the meeting of the Education Council. During the meeting, several projects were presented that are conducted with support from teaching project funding at Sahlgrenska Academy. “This is a real high point during the year for us…
Shanghai ranking: High ranking for GU in the life sciences
RANKING. Now that the Shanghai ranking for the first time lists the world’s best universities in the field of life science, the University of Gothenburg does well, as number two in Sweden in the subjects of biological sciences and clinical medicine. The ranking results are seen as proof that GU is on the right path in the life sciences. The Shanghai ranking comprises several broad subject rankings with a focus…
The ‘Bible’ of Glycobiology updated
The third edition of the textbook Essentials of glycobiology has been released. Sahlgrenska Academy’s Niclas Karlsson is among the co-authors, as well as Pauline Rudd, Honorary Doctor of 2014. Barbara Adamczyk also contributed. Glycobiology concerns complex carbohydrates and their interactions with proteins in the body, and are important for research on a range of diseases, including cancer and rheumatic diseases. Essentials of glycobiology were first published in 1999, and through the latest update, a…