NLS Research

The research leaders have been awarded grants under the Novo Nordisk Foundation Research Leader Programme. One project the grants will fund aims to discover new knowledge on how viruses such as influenza viruses and SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) affect the body’s metabolism and whether their proliferation in the body can be combatted. Another project will […]

The Swedish non-profit PAR Foundation (The Foundation to Prevent Antibiotic Resistance) has granted funding to three different projects in Ghana, Portugal and Sweden. This is the PAR Foundation’s first international grant call and in this call the focus is on infection prevention among elderly. “We have identified infections among elderly as an important driver of […]

Researchers at VTT have developed light and wireless sensors capable of capturing respiration rate, oxygen saturation, heart rate, temperature and even an ECG. If it were possible to monitor the status of patients in hospital care remotely and without interruption, hospital personnel would be made aware of early warning signs of a decline in a […]

Danish scientists have showed that regularly eating chocolate might reduce risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), which is an irregular heartbeat.

With the seventy-five meter-tall Mærsk Tower, the University of Copenhagen has taken an architectural leap towards becoming a spearhead in health and medical sciences. The research tower, designed by C. F. Møller and built with funding from the A.P. Møller Foundation, is directly connected to the existing Panum Complex. The primary aim has been to […]

The integration of large-scale genomics into the Stockholm region’s healthcare system has helped 1,200 people with rare diseases receive diagnosis. A study from Karolinska Institutet has analyzed the result of the first five years of collaboration on whole genome sequencing between Karolinska University Hospital and SciLifeLab. The work, published in Genome Medicine, constitutes a major […]