RECOGNITION. Per-Ingvar Brånemark has now been officially inducted into the American National Inventors Hall of Fame. His wife, Barbro Brånemark recently accepted his medal during a festive event in Washington DC, USA. Per-Ingvar Brånemark discovered and developed the modern dental implant. He based this invention on his discovery that the element titanium can be integrated with bone tissue through osseointegration, a term that he also coined. Osseointegration means that when…
Paul Blanc will be this year’s honorary doctorate from Sahlgrenska Academy
APPOINTMENT. The Academy Board has decided to designate the world’s leading occupational medicine researcher Paul Blanc as an honorary doctorate. He received the appointment for his long and significant collaboration with Sahlgrenska Academy. Paul Blanc is a professor at the University of California in San Fransisco. He leads, among other things, a number of large epidemiological studies on how the respiratory system is affected by factors in the environment and the…
Helle Wijk chosen as Deputy Head with responsibility for cooperation at her Institute
ASSIGNMENT. Helle Wijk, Associate Professor at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, was appointed Deputy Head with responsibility for cooperation. The assignment involves preparing cooperation issues both in terms of internal contacts with other Institutes at Sahlgrenska Academy and externally with Region Västa Götaland and other municipalities in the Gothenburg area. “It is an honor and a pleasure to have been given the assignment, and I am excited about…
Now you have the chance to collaborate with MSD
COLLABORATION. The collaboration between Sahlgrenska Academy, Region Västra Götaland and the health and medical care company MSD is now beginning to take on a more concrete form. Recently, the first Steering Committee meeting was held, and it became apparent that many researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy may get involved in the collaboration, with this global company. The three parties MSD, Sahlgrenska Academy and Region Västra Götaland entered into a collaboration agreement…
Writing on Wikipedia
The seminar is held in Swedish. Olle Terenius, Professor at SLU, talks about how Wikipedia works and about their work at SLU.