COLUMN. We have every reason to be proud of ourselves. Clinical research in Gothenburg is vibrant and we should not be hiding our light under a bushel. Barbro Fridén is the Administrative Director of Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and Guest Columnist in Akademiliv.
Bledar Daka receives scholarship from Women and Health
GRANT. Bledar Daka, who recently received his PhD at the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine , receives SEK 150 000 in research fellowship from the foundation Women & Health. The money will partially finance Bledar Dakas postdoc in San Diego.
Nordforsk launches report on registers och biobanks
REPORT. At the end of 2014 came a new report from the Nordic Research Board, called “Joint Nordic Registers and Biobanks – A goldmine for health and welfare research”. The report notes that register-based research in health and welfare has a great potential to produce knowledge that can be used to improve the capacity of the Nordic welfare states, especially if the Nordic registers and biobanks can be coordinated in a satisfactory manner.