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…
New honorary doctors of medicine at Sahlgrenska Academy
INTERACTION. Madeleine Olsson Eriksson, Helen von Sydow and Oscar von Sydow have been appointed as this year’s honorary doctors at Sahlgrenska Academy. “All three have made significant, committed efforts to further the work of the Academy and out students,” says Pro-Dean Eric Hanse. Since its inception in 2005, more than 400 students have received scholarships through the projects that Helen von Sydow and Oscar von Sydow initiated and funded through…
Seeking new treatment possibilities against obesity – in the brain
YOUNG RESEARCHERS. Discoveries about the hormone GLP-1 can by extension lead to a new pharmaceutical treatment against obesity – and an alternative to obesity surgery. Karolina Skibicka has conducted pioneering studies of the nervous system’s reward mechanisms and is now continuing her research at the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine. Obesity is a widespread disease, which is more common in the world today than starvation. It is a…
Wallenberg Centre opened with seminar
EVENT. “I am proud of the collaboration between the various partners. It is now our joint responsibility to ensure that the center is successful.” This was the statement from Vice-Chancellor Pam Fredman at the first Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine Event on February 7th. The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine is the full name of a major investment in medical research that entails a collaboration between the University of…