GRANTS. Axel Wolf, a chief nurse, anesthetist, and associate professor at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, has been awarded SEK 5.5 million from the Swedish Research Council to investigate whether there are adequate, or even better, alternatives to opioids in bariatric surgery. Pain relief without morphine during surgical procedures may sound completely unthinkable to many. Opioids, including morphine, are potent painkillers that provide relief through the central nervous…
Swedish Research Council project improves care for forensic psychiatric patients
Thomas Nilsson and his colleague Peter Andiné look out over Rården’s courtyard. Photo: Anna Rehnberg.GRANTS. Forensic psychiatry patients form a broad and complex group, making it difficult to leverage knowledge between countries in the field. A project led by the University of Gothenburg, which has now received funding from the Swedish Research Council, will provide systemic knowledge that ultimately will provide better forensic psychiatric care. The project, which has now…
Big investments at Core Facilities: SEK 30 million from the Swedish Research Council
INFRASTRUCTURE. This year, a total of SEK 30 million has been granted Core Facilities by the Swedish Research Council. The funds are to cover new investments in current infrastructure, but also the start-up of a new infrastructure of national interest. The Centre for Cellular imaging (CCI) has been granted SEK 7.5 million, Proteomics Core Facility (PCF) SEK 13.6 million, and Mammalian Protein Expression (MPE) has been granted SEK 8.5 million…
Agneta Holmäng: Our new Faculty Board is now begun working
COLUMN. Having now begun its work, the new Faculty Board has identified the faculty’s potential for continued educational development in digital and hybrid teaching and the technical status for accomplishing this as an important area. Agneta Holmäng discusses this in her latest column. Autumn is here, with its colorful displays and cool air. Along with the arrival of autumn, our new faculty board has begun its work in earnest. Last…
Swedish Research Council awards SEK 15 million for follow-up of COVID-19 vaccines
GRANTS. A research team at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital has received SEK 15 million from the Swedish Research Council for follow-up studies of COVID-19 vaccines. “This involves looking at the protective effect in the long term and how good it is in different groups,” says Magnus Gisslén, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Gothenburg and chief physician in the infection clinic at Sahlgrenska…