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Sweden’s Athena Prize, healthcare’s largest prize for clinical research, was awarded this year to physician and Associate Professor Alex Karlsson-Parra, of Uppsala University Hospital and founder of the company Immunicum. The company specializes in developing therapeutic cancer vaccines. The prize, which consists of a research grant of $150 000, was awarded in December at the Swedish […]

A joint Nordic Registers and Biobanks report was published in December, providing health and welfare researchers with a wealth of information. The registers and biobanks can provide policy-makers with research-based knowledge to improve the operation of Nordic countries. The report is based on the work of the NORIA-net on Registers and Biobanks (NRB), a Nordic working group […]

Scientists at the Centre for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen are searching for a way to prevent heart failure by studying how proteins inside heart cells change during heart failure. Previous research has shown that some of these specific proteins are malfunctioning in patients with heart failure. Researchers have found that if a […]

Scientists have catalogued which proteins operate in each of the body’s 32 different types of tissue and what their functions are in relation to other types of tissue.  The discovery will be useful in the development of medicines capable of targeting specific diseases, according to the scientists behind the study  “The perspectives of mapping the […]

For the first time ever, Danish scientists have collected all the information from each of 30 people and mapped their genomes through GenomeDenmark, a research project dedicated to mapping the Danish genome. “We’ve pieced together their genome entirely from scratch — this only has been done on very few people across the globe,” explains Simon […]

An organized prostate cancer screening program in Sweden focused on the men who have the most to gain would reduce the risk of dying from prostate cancer by more than 40 percent, according to studies at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. Spontaneous prostate cancer screenings, which involve the PSA test, have been applied in […]