PRIZE. Professor Jan Lötvall of the University of Gothenburg is receiving, as the first Swede to do so, the Lipid Science Prize — a personal award of half a million Swedish kronor from the Kåre Larsson and Gunnar Sandberg Research Foundation. Lötvall’s group has succeeded in showing that small bubble-like structures called exosomes, secreted by the body’s cells, contain RNA molecules. This discovery may culminate in entirely new treatments both…
Strong interest in our Master’s Programme in Public Health Science
EDUCATION. The Master’s Programme in Public Health Science has been included in the top 10 list of the most sought-after international master’s programmes in Sweden. This is revealed by new statistics from the Swedish Council for Higher Education. The number of applicants for international admissions has increased by 26 per cent, compared to the previous year. In the latest international admissions, there were 1,161 applicants to the programme. The programme…
Annika Rosengren included among the world’s top female medical scientists
RANKING. Professor Annika Rosengren is the sole University of Gothenburg researcher included on a list of the thousand top female medical scientists in the world. While ordinary research rankings are dominated by men, Annika Rosengren points to the difference between low-income and high-income countries as an even greater injustice in the research world. Published on Research.com, the list is based on data collected from Microsoft Academic Graph in December 2021.…
Major strides for registry-based research
RESEARCH CONDITIONS. A regional initiative on registry-based research has led to new advances in such areas as research on prostate cancer and COVID-19. The researchers from Sahlgrenska University Hospital and the University of Gothenburg are behind the project. One of these researchers is Ola Bratt, a professor of clinical cancer epidemiology and senior physician at the Prostate Cancer Center at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. He has long been active in prostate…
Though the Early Professional Contact course is coming to an end, it will return in the new medical program
EDUCATION. Course coordinators, supervisors, former students, and others recently gathered to celebrate the Early Professional Contact (EPC) course that has been offered for 20 years. A new version of the course is being launched in the new medical program, where general medicine and primary care are given greater scope in the clinical-based training of the medical students. Much time, love, and commitment went into the Early Professional Contact course, which…