COLLABORATION. How does hair grow? Does the plague still exist? Why do people lose teeth? These were some of the many questions that eager third-graders put to the expert panel of doctors, dentists and nurses during the International Science Festival. About 50 children came to the Arvid Carlsson lecture theater at Medicinareberget to speak with four specialists on the panel. This was Sahlgrenska Academy’s and Sahlgrenska University Hospital’s first event on…
Fredrik Sterky has synapses on his mind
YOUNG RESEARCHERS. Fredrik Sterky is home in Gothenburg again after postgraduate studies in Stockholm and a postdoc at Stanford. He is a resident physician in clinical chemistry, with a research interest in the connections among nerve cells in the brain. He has research time in the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine (WCMTM) and was recently one of the few young researchers in Gothenburg who received establishment support in…
Major consensus on Sahlgrenska Life over Per Dubbsgatan
COLLABORATION. Both hospital director Ann-Marie Wennberg and deputy dean Eric Hanse feel that the pilot study for Sahlgrenska Life is inspiring. They are both in agreement that the environments we are now creating to gather together research, innovation, education and healthcare can give us a nationally leading Life Science campus. This is not the first time that this major idea has been on the table – linking Medicinareberget and Sahlgrenska’s…
255 to share SEK 200 million in ALF project funding
GRANTS. The year’s call for proposals for ALF project funding has now been completed, and a total of nearly SEK 200 million has been allocated to the 255 applications ranked highest by the assessment groups. Two of the largest grant recipients are Christopher Gillberg and Ann Hellström, who are each receiving SEK six million over three years. For both Christopher Gillberg and Ann Hellström, the ALF funding is very important…
R building – an open meeting place and center for excellence
COLLABORATION. Last Friday saw the grand inauguration of R building at Mölndal hospital. The building will be a large space focusing on musculoskeletal functions and diseases, with the ambition to become a creative meeting place for researchers, students, colleagues and various patient groups. The first sod of earth for the large 7,000 m2 building was dug out in March 2015 and the project has cost almost quarter of a billion Swedish…