EDUCATION. Thanks to a modern addition to the curriculum, fifth-semester medical students now learn about immunology by performing a virtual experiment on imaginary mice. The aim is to develop a new flu vaccine. The lab work is a new educational exercise developed by Susannah Leach during her time as a graduate student working within the university’s Basic Medicine Program. A soft murmuring fills the computer lab as students work in…
Sahlgrenska Academy’s teaching award 2016 – see photos from the ceremony
PRICE. The team of teachers who receive this year’s Sahlgrenska Academy’s teaching award has officially received their prize. The ceremony was at Ågrenska villan, in connection with a meeting for Faculty course leaders on Wednesday, October 19. See the photos from the ceremony here! The awareded teaching team consists of Levent Akyürek, Anne Uv, Henrik Svensson, Eva Jennische, Ruth Palmer, Per Lindahl and Mats Sandberg. All teachers work at the…
Over 19 million from the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation
GRANTS. Eleven researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy have received SEK 19.3 million from the research foundation IngaBritt och Arne Lundberg Forskningsstiftelse. The Foundation primarily funds the purchase of equipment. This year’s largest grant was awarded to Jan Borén, a professor at the Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine. He will receive three million kronor from the foundation for the platform he and his team have developed to analyze lipids and…
Large majority voted to approve the policy group’s proposal
SELECTION OF VICE-CHANCELLOR. An overwhelming majority of voters accepted the policy group’s proposal regarding Sahlgrenska Academy’s representation in the consultative assembly. As such, the 14 people who will represent the Academy in the process of appointing a new vice-chancellor have been selected. Voter turnout was 27 percent among teachers and just over 22 percent among other staff categories. Of the 173 teachers who voted, 160 voted for the policy group’s…
Gothenburg researcher comments this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
THE 2016 NOBEL PRIZE. Thomas Nyström, professor of microbiology at the University of Gothenburg researchers on the aging of yeast cells, is very pleased that Yoshinori Ohsumi has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: “It is wonderful that the prize goes to fundamental molecular biologic researcher and that baker’s yeast, one again, has proven such an appreciated and useful model organism with relevance for human functions and…