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…
Newly arrived researchers received information on fast track to the university
INTER-ACTION. Biotechnology, religion, urology, IT and aging. Those were some of the research fields that were represented when some twenty newly arrived researchers with refugee background met on Pedagogen on Thursday, where they received information about the new program for PhD students or those who recently finished their PhD into the academy in Sweden. The project is a collaboration between the Swedish Employment Service, University of West Sweden, University of…
Report from the first international conference on ESSENCE
CONFERENCE. The first international conference on ESSENCE–a relatively new umbrella term for the whole group of neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders that manifest themselves during early childhood–convened in Gothenburg on April 10–11. Almost 1,500 participants from around the world attended the conference, which was described as a great success by the organizers. Researcher Nanna Gillberg provides us with a summary of the two days. The ESSENCE 2018 conference was held during…
Fruitful meeting when the Ministry of Education and Research visited Sahlgrenska Academy
EDUCATION. As part of the inquiry into the specialist nursing program being conducted by commission of the government, Special Inquirer Kenth Nauclér and his colleagues are making site visits at some selected higher education institutions. For two days last week, Sahlgrenska Academy was visited, and the inquiry team was impressed by the good collaboration between higher education institutions and the health care system in the region. The visit to Sahlgrenska…
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…