INTERACTION.Students from the MFA Fine Art program at Valand Academy and The Museum of Medical History present the exhibition “Totally Sick! Artists’ Interventions in the Medical History Museum”, April 22 – May 12. Totally Sick! / Helt Sjukt! April 22 – May 12, 2016 Medicinhistoriska Museet Östra Hamngatan 11 ‘Totally sick!’ is an exhibition produced and curated by six MFA Fine Art students from Valand Academy and staff from the Medical History…
GPCC Implement helps healthcare develop its person centered approach
COLLABORATION. A person centered approach makes care more effective and humane. Therefor, there is a major interest in health and social care in increasing person centered care. To support the change process with different heads, a non-profit company has been built. GPCC Implement. GPCC Implement is a so-called SVB company (NPO company), which means that the owner, GU Ventures AB, cannot withdraw any of the money from the company. Instead,…
Research Day offered a jam-packed program
COLLABORATION. All seats were reserved before this year’s Research Day, both for Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Over three hundred listeners filled the seats of the Wallenberg Auditorium where both pre-clinical and clinical cutting edge research were presented. Sahlgrenska University Hospital Director Barbro Fridén started the day together with Olle Larkö, Dean at Sahlgrenska Academy. “A neuroscientist once told me that daydreaming is good, it makes you more creative.…
Åsa Naluai Torinsson – one of many participating in the International Science Festival Gothenburg
INTERACTION. Starting April 13, this year’s Science Festival will present 350 program items. A wide range of co-workers from the University of Gothenburg contribute to the festival, among others Åsa Torinsson Naluai, who conducts research on genetics and complex diseases at the Genomics Core Facilities. For Åsa’s part it is premier in the Science Festival. She was asked to participate in a panel discussion on cloning and genetic manipulation, and…
New brain imaging can reveal signs of Alzheimer’s in healthy adults
PUBLICATION. New research led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, with the participation of Michael Schöll from the University of Gothenburg shows for the first time that PET scans can track the progressive stages of Alzheimer’s disease in cognitively normal adults, a key advance in the early diagnosis and staging of the neurodegenerative disorder. In the process, the scientists also obtained important clues about two Alzheimer’s-linked proteins –…