Collaboration - August 26, 2020
Karolinska Institutet, St. Erik Eye Hospital and Novo Nordisk collaborate
Karolinska Institutet and St. Erik Eye Hospital have entered into a collaboration with Novo Nordisk A/S to develop a new treatment for age-related macular degeneration. Novo Nordisk will provide support and SEK 48 million in funding to enable a phase 1 clinical trial where new retinal cells generated from embryonic stem cells will be transplanted […]
Uncategorized - August 26, 2020
Antibiotics associated with increased risk of inflammatory bowel disease
Antibiotics use, particularly antibiotics with greater spectrum of microbial coverage, may be associated with an increased risk of new-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and its subtypes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. That is according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Harvard Medical School in the United States, published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology. The […]
COVID-19 - August 14, 2020
New findings on the immune system’s role in severe COVID-19
By conducting advanced analyses of immune system activation in patients with severe COVID-19, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have managed to identify several cell types that play a key part in the immune response to the new coronavirus and the hyperinflammation seen in severe cases of the disease. The results are published in the scientific journal […]
COVID-19 - August 8, 2020
Cloth face masks can reduce the spread of the new coronavirus, shows research
A literature review coordinated by Karolinska Institutet and McMaster University in Canada demonstrates that cloth face masks provide clinically useful levels of filtration. The findings, published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, support the wearing of cloth masks to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus, according to the researchers. “This evidence should be more […]
Collaboration - August 4, 2020
Swedish researchers part of a new IMI consortium
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet are part of a consortium granted almost 66 million euros by the European Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and other parties. The funds will be used to develop, test and facilitate access to chemical substances and other research tools that could pave the way for new drug targets and treatments of diseases […]
COVID-19 - April 22, 2020
New diagnostic test for COVID-19 may deliver results within half an hour
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have together with researchers in China developed a new diagnostic test for COVID-19. The test can be performed without advanced laboratory equipment and deliver the result in about half an hour, according to a study published in the journal Clinical Chemistry. The researchers are now working on verifying the test results […]
