RESEARCH. For the second year in a row, the Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital will shortly be carrying out a joint research day Last year’s Research Day was fully booked but there are still a few places left for this year’s arrangement. Please note that The Research Day will be held in Swedish The Research Day will take place on March 2 in the Wallenberg Conference Center. There is…
Medicine, technology and research – working together for the future
INTERACTION. Our new Imaging and Intervention Center is set to create new opportunities for collaboration between medicine, technology and research, with a number of projects from these three areas presented at a seminar at Sahlgrenska University Hospital this week. The seminar started with representatives of SU, the Sahlgrenska Academy and Chalmers sharing their views on opportunities to benefit from each other’s expertise. “The Sahlgrenska Academy is already our main partner,…
External report on stem cell-treated organ transplants at Sahlgrenska University Hospital now complete
REPORT. In the report, Bengt Gerdin highlights several details of four cases where stem cell-treated transplanted organs were used in 2011-2012. Failures to seek permission for the procedures performed on the patients should be seen in light of the few available alternative treatments and unclear legislation at the time. The report examined four transplants, one trachea transplant and three transplants of blood vessels in the abdomens of children. “The procedures…
Sahlgrenska’s Image and Intervention Center – a Vision Realized
From “a building strong enough to bear the weight of an MRI scanner,” to a vision of what Sahlgrenska University Hospital (SU) might do for patients in the future. That’s how some have described the journey from the initial plans 15 years ago to the inauguration of the Image and Intervention Center on September 23, 2016. Music performed by students from the local Billströmska folk high school mixes with the…
Sven Ekholm: BOIC increases interest in research
COLUMN. The new Imaging and Intervention Center (BOIC) will serve as a regional center for medical care and will continually be developed through scientific research and education. Sven Ekholm, who has been assigned as dean to lead the academization of the center, offers his view of how BOIC has developed and how the academic aspects will continue to evolve. The Imaging and Intervention Center (BOIC) increases interest in research as…