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…
Four researchers run 10K race for cancer research
ATHLETICS. This weekend four research colleagues from the Institute of Biomedicine ran the Fight Cancer and Run race in Gothenburg, the proceeds from which go to the Jubilee Clinic Cancer Fund. They ran the race to support cancer research and to highlight how glycobiology offers new ways to attack stomach cancers. The four included mix of seasoned and less experienced runners. Niclas Karlsson, associate professor of medical and physiological chemistry,…
Hamza and Manar—two Syrian dentists supplementing their qualifications at the Institute of Odontology
EDUCATION. Almost all the foreign dentists who recently began their supplementary training at Sahlgrenska Academy hail from Syria. Meet Hamza and Manar, two Syrian dentists eager to be allowed to start work in Sweden. Hamza Kayssar and Manar Yousef first met when they recently became classmates at Gothenburg’s Institute of Odontology. Both are dentists educated in Syria, and both left their homeland just over two years ago. Now here in…
Christopher Gillberg appointed Visiting Professor at Institut Pasteur
APPOINTMENT. Professor Christopher Gillberg has been appointed Visiting Professor at Institut Pasteur in Paris. At the installation lecture September 26, 2016, Christopher Gillberg spoke on the topic ”Autism pure versus autism plus. The ESSENCE of child psychiatry”. The Visting professorship is affiliated to the department ”Génetique Humaine et Fonctions Cognitive”, under the leadership of Professor Thomas Bourgeron. As a Visiting Professor Christopher Gillberg will be involved in the project ”Collaboration…