Diabetes researchers at IGP acknowledged

At the National Digital Diabetes meeting on 15 April, the Swedish Association for Diabetes awarded Peter Seiron the prize Pre-clinical Thesis of the Year, and Olle Korsgren the prize Diabetes Researcher of the Year.

IGP researchers Stefan Enroth and Tobias Sjöblom have been awarded research grants from Lena Wäppling’s Foundation.

The Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation has awarded grants for a four-year researcher position for Xiaonan Zhang, a two-year postdoc position for Preeti Jha, and research months for Ulla Martinsson.

Oskar Eriksson awarded a Göran Gustafsson Prize for young researchers.

Anders Mutvei receives a Junior Investigator Award, Jim Ögren is awarded a postdoc position, and Anja Mortensen, Diana Spiegelberg and Carina Strell are each awarded a fellowship in radiation therapy research.

Åsa Johansson, Marcel den Hoed and Bo Nilsson have been awarded research grants from the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation.

Thirteen IGP researchers have been awarded research grants from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation. The grants are between SEK 500 000 and 3.0 million, for one to three years.

Fredrik Swartling is awarded a grant of SEK 3 million and Peter Nygren receives a SEK 2.7 million grant from the Sjöberg Foundation.

In strong international competition, Lars Forsberg har been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. The grant is of approximately SEK 20 million for five years.

In the Swedish Research Council’s call for applications for Grants for accessibility to infrastructure, the project New technology for integrated multi-omics analysis using large-scale parallel sequencing, led by Ulf Gyllensten, has been granted SEK 7 850 000.

Christer Betsholtz receives one of Uppsala University’s largest awards, the Björkén prize. He is awarded for his outstanding research on blood vessel formation, vessel permeability and other vascular functions.

The research programme Human Protein Atlas, for which the Uppsala node is hosted by IGP, celebrates its 20 years anniversary. To celebrate this event, the journal Science has published an online booklet with the most important milestones from the project. In addition, several films that take the viewer on journeys into the human body, and a new Single Cell Type Atlas are also launched.

The Swedish Cancer Society has granted funding of almost SEK 55 million in total to 16 IGP researchers.

Nine IGP researchers have been awarded research grants from the Swedish Research Council in the field of medicine and health.

Lena Claesson-Welsh, Christer Betsholtz, Elisabetta Dejana, Taija Mäkinen and Michael Simons are awarded SEK 38 million during five years to characterise blood and lymphatic vessels in different organs. The characterisation can provide the basis for targeted analyses and improved therapies specifically for what is unique for each vessel type.

The foundation has decided to support Tobias Sjöblom’s research project “New cancer therapy targeting genetic variation” with SEK 9 million during three years.

The national research infrastructure Biobank Sweden has been granted SEK 10 million from the Swedish Research Council to coordinate the collection and accessibility of samples related to COVID-19.

The Swedish Research Council has decided about the funding of projects concerning research on coronavirus and COVID-19. Bo Nilsson is awarded SEK 1.77 million to study the innate immune response in COVID-19.

Niklas Dahl and Jan Dumanski have been awarded grants of SEK 1 200 000 for two years, and Åsa Johansson and Fredrik Swartling receive SEK 600 000 for one year.

Peter Nygren has been awarded Region Uppsala’s research prize for 2019 for his research on individualised and more effective cancer therapy, often called precision medicine.

Gunilla Enblad is one of the researchers who has been granted funding in SciLifeLab’s call for applications for covid-19 research, financed by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. She is awarded SEK 700 000 for the project Biological investigations of Covid-19 in cancer patients.

Xingqi Chen has been awarded SEK 500 000 from the foundation Petrus och Augusta Hedlunds stiftelse.

Oskar Eriksson has been granted funding from the Agnes and Mac Rudberg foundation, Magnus Bergvall foundation, and Reumatikerförbundet.

IGP researcher Di Yu has been awarded a Göran Gustafsson Prize for young researchers.

Fredrik Swartling and Marika Nestor receive a Senior Investigator Award, Anzhelika Vorobyeva is awarded a position for research on ovarian cancer and Milena Doroszko is awarded a postdoctoral position.

Starting today, we will each week publish a beautiful/stunning/interesting picture as examples of the research performed at IGP.

She is awarded "for her molecular studies of the lymphatic vasculature's growth and function". The prize consists of a research grant of SEK 5.1 million during three years, and a personal prize of SEK 250 000.

U-CAN has been in operation for 10 years. To celebrate this, a day of scientific presentations and discussion of how U-CAN best contributes to future cancer research is organised.

Anzhelika Vorobeyeva, Yumeng Mao and Xingqi Chen have been awarded research grants of SEK 200 000 from the foundation Linnéstiftelsen för medicinsk forskning.

Anzhelika Vorobyeva is awarded SEK 340 000 to study how targeting of EpCAM using DARPin molecules can be used as a combined diagnostics and therapy of prostate cancer.

Masood Kamali-Moghaddam receives SEK 200 000 to develop and implement advanced technologies for detection and characterization of exosomes as biomarkers for prostate cancer.