YOUNG RESEARCHERS. Ten researchers attended a recent workshop organized by Future Faculty and the Grants and Innovation Office that offered participants a chance to sharpen their applications to the Swedish Research Council. One of the participants was epilepsy researcher Johan Zelano, who thinks the workshop was useful – and well executed. During the workshop, lectures on the various parts of the application were interspersed with individual work, feedback from advisors…
New announcement gives young researchers access to Core Facilities
RESEARCH. Thanks to a private donation, young researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy can now apply for funding for access to Core Facilities. SEK 250,000 will be distributed yearly among as most five fellows, to be used on any of six research platforms. The application period has just opened – deadline is April 30, 2018. The scholarship offers the opportunity to get access to the knowledge and use of platforms for the techniques bioinfomatics, proteomics,…
A dream combination for Cristina Maglio
YOUNG RESEARCHER. Cristina Maglio has found the position of her dreams in Gothenburg – where she can combine clinical activities with research on the link between obesity and rheumatic diseases. She is a resident physician in rheumatology, with research time in the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine (WCMTM). In her research Cristina Maglio is examining how obesity surgery affects the risk of patients developing a rheumatic disease, especially…
Thaher Pelaseyed receives SSMF’s Large Grant
GRANT. Thaher Pelaseyed, who recently returned to Gothenburg after a postdoc at Cornell University, is now establishing his own independent lab, focusing on a new type of surface receptors in intestinal cells. He as just secured funding for the next four years, thanks to a generous grant from Swedish Society for Medical Research (Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forskning, or SSMF). SSMF’s Large Grant goes to promising young scientists who are…
Michael Schöll behind Introduction of New Brain Imaging Technology
YOUNG RESEARCHERS. Michael Schöll is the latest researcher to be recruited to the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine in Gothenburg. He brings with him expertise about an imaging technology for the brain that was not available here before, which will mean new, and more far-reaching opportunities to study the diseases of the brain. This ‘PET’, i.e. positron emission tomography, scanning is a medical imaging technology that uses radioactive…