NLS Karolinska Institutet

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom have identified a novel mechanism allowing pluripotent stem cells to maintain their genome in an unpacked state. Embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells have the ability to give rise to all cell types present in the adult body. In order to maintain […]

This year’s Athena Prize, the health care’s most prominent prize in clinical research, is awarded Professor Ola Winqvist and his research group at Karolinska Institutet. Winqvist is Professor of cellular immunotherapy at Karolinska Institutet and a chief physician at Karolinska University Hospital. Ola Winqvist and his co-workers have developed a new principle for the treatment […]

Several leading organizations are joining forces to launch a project to improve benefit and risk assesments of vaccines. The project will pave way for a pan-European framework for rapidly assessing and communicating the benefits and risks of vaccines. The hope is that the framework could make it easier for regulators and public health authorities to […]

Karolinska Institutet and AstraZeneca has recruited Professor Bo Angelin to lead the Integrated Cardio Metabolic Centre (ICMC). Bo Angelin is a Professor of Clinical Metabolism at Karolinska Institutet and a senior consultant at the Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes at Karolinska University Hospital. He is an internationally renowned researcher in the field of lipid metabolism. […]

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and colleagues at University Children’s Hospital Z-rich in Switzerland have managed to improve cytostatic therapy for children with the chronic immune deficiency disorder granulomatous disease prior to stem cell transplantation. By tailoring doses of the cytostatics administered before the transplantation, the researchers achieved a higher rate of survival with […]