Uncategorized - June 3, 2020
Novo Nordisk leads international obesity project
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 and treatment for people with obesity. Twenty-nine leading international partners from civil society, academia and industry have joined forces to better understand obesity and optimize […]
Uncategorized - May 14, 2020
Karolinska Institutet’s Board of Research has appointed 3 new honorary doctors
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 have contributed to science, humanity, or Karolinska Institutet. It can also be awarded to individuals who lack the official requirements of a PhD but have […]
Collaboration - May 8, 2020
Swedish and Finnish study has found possible vaccine for virus linked to type 1 diabetes
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 been published in the scientific journal Science Advances. CVBs could play a part in the development of type 1 diabetes There is a genetic component, […]
Uncategorized - April 30, 2020
Parkinson’s disease may start in the gut
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 new therapies The findings are published in Nature Genetics and one interesting finding was that cells from the gut’s nervous system are involved in Parkinson’s […]
Uncategorized - April 27, 2020
Sara Mangsbo awarded the ÅForsk’s scholarship
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 will receive the ÅForsk’s entrepreneur Scholarship of 200 000 SEK to further develop her research project, Immune Gas Pedal (IMMGAP), a platform that can help […]
Uncategorized - April 16, 2020
Disease prevention and cancer screening would benefit from genomic risk assessment
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 FinnGen research dataset encompassing more than 135,000 Finns, show that new tools based on genomic data are helpful in identifying high-risk individuals not identified by […]
