AWARDS. Tuesday, May 17, the festive awarding of the prizes for best thesis was held in Academicum. University photographer Johan Wingborg lets us take part of the ceremony thorugh his photos.
The Assar Gabrielsson Award goes to Anna Staffas and Rebecka Arnsrud Godtman
AWARD. For the first time, the Assar Gabrielsson Foundation is dividing its award between two medical researchers. The winners, Anna Staffas and Rebecka Arnsrud Godtman, have carried out acclaimed cancer research within leukemia and prostate cancer screening, respectively. The award amount is SEK 100,000 per person. The Assar Gabrielsson Foundation aims to draw attention to both experimental and patient-based research. This is why, from this year on, two prizes will be…
Ruth Palmer receives the Göran Gustafsson Prize
AWARD. As recently as last fall, Ruth Palmer and her colleagues were finally able to identify a protein that binds to the receptor of the ALK gene in humans – after 15 years of hard work. “Identifying the ligand for ALK was one of my major goals as a researcher, so it was really wonderful. The challenge now is to work with the clinical applications of the discovery,” says Professor…
Prestigious ERC grant to world leading mucus researcher
GRANT. Professor Gunnar C. Hansson, world leading scientist in the field of mucus and mucins, has received the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. His research group at the University of Gothenburg is behind a number of revolutionary discoveries on the protective mucus layer in the intestines and airways. Goals are set on new ways of treating a number of diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and ulcerative…
New mechanism for cancer-related protein excretion published in Nature journal
NEW STUDY. Important developmental events are controlled by the Wnt/Wingless family of small signaling molecules in vertebrates. These molecules and the events they control are also implicated in the development of cancer in humans, where it is often dysregulated. Now researchers from the Sahlgrenska Academy report in Nature Cell Biology a novel mechanism regulating their secretion (Yamazaki et al., DOI 10.1038/ncb3325). Examining this process in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster…