COLUMN. After an eight-year hiatus, the Alltinget program is now back on the radio. The program came to an end when program director Lasse Swahn retired, but now he and the panel are back again every other week during the spring on Swedish Radio’s P4 channel in Gothenburg. In this column, panel member Henrik Sjövall gives us some behind-the-scenes insight from the new launch of the program. You can hear…
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s Diagnostics Accelerator Makes Major Investment to Fast Track Development of Novel Biomarkers
GRANT. Professor Henrik Zetterberg at the University of Gothenburg will head a major European research collaboration, which is developing a significantly easier way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease at an early stage through a blood test. Such a test could offer the potential for developing new treatments for Alzheimer’s and related dementias. . Through its Diagnostics Accelerator, the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) – a U.S. based non-profit – is committed…
Contract for collaboration on information about rare diagnoses with the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare to be discontinued
COLLABORATION. On February 15 next year, the current contract with the National Board of Health and Welfare for the assignment to produce and update its database of rare diagnoses will be discontinued. Because the assignment is ending, the University of Gothenburg has begun to shut down the Swedish Information Centre for Rare Diseases. The Swedish Information Centre for Rare Diseases (IRD) is a knowledge center for the dissemination of…
Anniversary of MedTech West – 10 years of collaboration on medical technology in western Sweden
ANNIVERSARY. In 2009 a medical technology platform was started in western Sweden: MedTech West. Five stakeholders (Chalmers University of Technology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, the University of Borås, Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Region Västra Götaland) together invested SEK 13.5 million over a three-year period to develop medical technology. We have found three of the professors behind this initiative: Mikael Elam, a professor at Sahlgrenska Academy and chief…
The cells’ natural transport system can be used for future treatments
NEW STUDY. For the first time ever, researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy have successfully used a genetic transport method that exists naturally in the body to deliver genetic material into cells and get them to produce a desired protein. This discovery could mean a new principal for treatment of diseases where genetic defects impact protein synthesis in cells. In the study, which was recently published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers…