Company founded by IGP researchers receive support for innovation project

The Swedish innovation agency Vinnova has decided to grant SEK five million to a project that will develop manufacturing processes in cell therapy against cancer. The project is led by the company Elicera Therapeutics, founded by IGP researchers Di Yu and Magnus Essand.

The Sjöberg Foundation has awarded Åsa Johansson SEK 3 million to study hormonal contraception to prevent ovarial and endometrial cancer.

Four researchers at IGP receive project grants from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation for research on brain tumours, eye cancer and new treatment strategies.

Olle Korsgren, Marcus Lundberg and Oskar Skog have been awarded research grants from the Swedish Child Diabetes Foundation and Carina Strell and Tobias Sjöblom have received research support from the Cancer and Allergy Foundation.

The International Society of Amyloidosis has awarded Per Westermark the 2022 Giampaolo Merlini Award.

Johan Rönnelid has received a project grant in the Swedish Research Council’s call for applications for international collaborations within Personalised Medicine (ERA PerMed)

Sven Nelander has together with Rebecka Jörnsten at University of Gothenburg been awarded a research grant of SEK 3.7 million to develop new AI-based methods for molecular cancer research.

The Swedish Cancer Society has granted funding of SEK 54 million in total to 18 IGP researchers.

On Thursday 18 November, Anna Dimberg, Lars Feuk, Patrick Micke, Sven Nelander and Gustav Ullenhag will give their inauguration lectures as new professors at Uppsala University and IGP.

Konstantin Gängel has been awarded a project grant in the area Natural and Engineering Sciences. The grant is SEK 3.4 million for four years and will be used to study cellular and molecular mechanisms in the disease cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM).

The grant is SEK 600 000 and will be used for the project “Genetic variation in the lectin pathway of the complement system – a new risk factor for thrombosis”.

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

Sven Nelander has been awarded a planning grant of SEK 300 000 from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF. The grant will be used to develop a European network for studying brain tumours, which will apply for an ERC Synergy Grant.

He is rewarded for his research into vascular structure and function, where his work has significantly contributed to the understanding of how blood vessel cells cooperate to form and maintain a functional blood vasculature.

Upsala Läkareförening has awarded Sylwia Libard the Hwasser prize for best clinical PhD thesis in the academic year 2020/2021.

Peter Nygren and Joachim Gullbo, together with Rolf Larsson at the Department of Medical Sciences, receive Uppsala University’s prize for outstanding transfer of knowledge, Hjärnäpplet. They are awarded for their successful work towards improved drug treatments against cancer.

Favour Onyeogaziri, PhD student in Elisabetta Dejana’s research group, come second with her finalist contribution where she explained how brain blood vessels in the disease CCM can be compared to leaking and clogged pipes in a house. She was specially complimented for her enthusiastic presentation.

Today, the president of Latvia visited Uppsala, Uppsala University and IGP. In the late afternoon he came to the Rudbeck Laboratory together with the Rector of the University of Latvia to sign a Memorandum of Understanding for collaboration in research and education.

Lars Feuk, Åsa Johansson, Tobias Sjöblom and Fredrik Swartling have received research grants from the Swedish Brain Foundation.

Favour Onyeogaziri, PhD student in Elisabetta Dejana’s research group, has been selected as a finalist in the competition Coimbra Group Three-Minute-Thesis. On 29 June she will present her contribution where she describes leaking blood vessels in an illustrative way.

Hear Ulf Landegren describe how 53 000 samples from UK Biobank will be analysed to see how proteins in the samples can be associated with characteristics in the people providing the samples.

Lucia Cavelier and collaborators at Clinical Genomics Uppsala have been granted ALF funding of MSEK 1.9 to strengthen precision medicine research.

The project HPVir – concept for home sampling for the prevention of cervical cancer is one of fifty-one projects on the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences’ (IVA) 100 list for 2021.

The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation has decided to grant funding for 30 research projects on COVID-19. One of the grants is awarded Jan Dumanski for the project Acquired loss of chromosome Y in blood cells and pre-disposition for severe COVID-19 infection in men.

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.