The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Birgitta Henriques Normark the Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorial Chair in Medicine – a SEK 10 million grant over a period of five

Random Walk Imaging (RWI) has announced positive data from a study in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients using the company’s scanning method and software protocol. Data from the study, which was

Novo Nordisk leads the international, public-private research consortium ‘SOPHIA’ (Stratification of Obese Phenotypes to Optimize Future Obesity Therapy), which was launched with the aim of improving risk assessment of comorbidities

Pascale Cossart, Sven Hagströmer, and Thomas Sakmar will have their doctorates formally conferred at Stockholm City Hall on 13 November 2020. An honorary doctorate can be awarded to researchers who

Researchers in Sweden and Finland have produced a vaccine for viruses linked to type 1 diabetes in the hope that it could provide protection against the disease. The study has

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the University of North Carolina have mapped out the cell types behind various brain disorders and their findings offer a roadmap for the development of

Sara Mangsbo, Associate Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University, has been appointed one of Sweden’s ten most innovative entrepreneurs 2020 by the Swedish Incubators & Science Parks (SISP) and ÅForsk. Mangsbo

A new Finnish study has demonstrated the benefits of large-scale genomic information in estimating the risk of onset for cardiac diseases, diabetes and common cancers. The findings, based on the

Assistant Professor Juha Saarikangas at HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, has been awarded the Young Investigator Grant of the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) to study cellular aging from a new

Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm are developing a serological test for COVID-19 antibodies. The test would be used to ensure whether individuals have had the disease,

Researchers  from Karolinska Institutet and Örebro University Hospital in Sweden and Massachusetts General Hospital in the US have published new findings about the risks of developing liver cancer. Among adults

An international team of scientists led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet has launched a comprehensive overview of all proteins expressed in the brain, published in the journal Science. The open-access

Three coronavirus projects coordinated by researchers at Karolinska Institutet have moved onto the grant negotiation phase in a bid for 9 million euros (95 million kronor) in EU funding. The

Parts of tumor tissue, which is normally discarded in cancer surgery, bear information about the disease, and studies at the University of Gothenburg show that this has been unexploited. This

A new epidemiological study from Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden shows that there is a connection between high levels of the gastrointestinal hormone GIP in the blood,