Magnus Essand and Ingrid Glimelius awarded research grants from the Sjöberg Foundation

The Sjöberg Foundation has awarded Magnus Essand SEK 4.5 million for a project on systemic CAR-T cell therapy of the brain tumour glioblastoma. Ingrid Glimelius receives SEK 6 million to study early relapse detection in the cancer type malignant mantle cell lymphoma.

Eleven research projects on childhood cancer have been granted funding for the coming one to three years. The grants will for instance support research on brain tumors, neuroblastoma and leukemia.

The Swedish Cancer Society has granted funding of SEK 64.3 million in total to 18 IGP researchers.

Lars Forsberg has been awarded a project grant in the area Natural and Engineering Sciences and, together with other researchers, Marie Allen has been granted funding for a new research environment in the area Humanities and Social Sciences.

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

Christer Betsholtz was awarded the Olof Rudbeck prize in 2020 and Ulf Landegren will receive this year’s prize. At the Rudbeck Day, with the theme “When the brain no longer complies – is it dementia?”, you can hear them both hold their prize lectures.

Sven Nelander, Kaska Koltowska and Lene Uhrbom have been granted SEK 38.2 million, together with researchers in Gothenburg and Stockholm, to characterise the invasion routes of brain tumours and their role for the therapy of individual patients.

At the University’s birthday celebration on 7 October, Marie Allen received Uppsala University’s Distinguished Teaching Award for her efforts in undergraduate education. In a recent article in MP you can read more about her engagement in the Master’s Programme in Forensic Science.

Svante Pääbo was engaged as guest professor at IGP for several years. He is awarded for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.

Xingqi Chen, Mathias Rask-Andersen, Nina Schiller and Hongxing Zhao have been accepted for the autumn round of the UU Innovation Mentor Programme.

Marie Allen, Masood Kamali-Moghaddam and Malin Lagerström have been appointed as Excellent Teachers by the Disciplinary Domain for Medicine and Pharmacy.

Johan Rung has been awarded SEK 15 million for five years in the SSF programme Research Infrastructure Fellows 2.

Lena Claesson-Welsh is rewarded for her research on blood vessels and their role in health and disease.

As the only researcher from Uppsala University, Yumeng Mao was recently selected as Future Research Leader by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF. The award includes a grant of SEK 15 million for five years and leadership training during the programme.

Ulf Landegren has been awarded the Olof Rudbeck Prize for 2022. The Olof Rudbeck Prize was founded by Upsala Läkareförening to reward important achievements in basic science that have had significant clinical impact.

The rewarded projects are Rarity Bioscience, led by Lei Chen and Ulf Landegren, HPVir, with Inger Gustavsson and Ulf Gyllenstema as project leaders, and Tools for combined diagnostics and gene therapy of brain tumours, led by Fredrik Swartling.

He is awarded for his research in clinical genetics where he has developed the hematological diagnostics at Uppsala University Hospital.

Masood Kamali-Moghaddam has been granted funding from the Wallenberg Foundations to host a scientist from Ukraine.

On Tuesday, Marie Allen was surprised by a group led by Deputy vice-chancellor Coco Norén who informed her that she will receive the 2022 Pedagogical Award for the area of Medicine and Pharmacy.

Inger Gustavsson’s and Ulf Gyllensten’s project Home-sampling for the prevention of cervical cancer is one of seventy projects on the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences’ (IVA) 100 list for 2022.

Ulf Landegren, Björn Ekström and Jon Heimer have been selected as the first recipients of Uppsala University’s newly established innovation and entrepreneurship prize. They are all key figures behind the successful biotech company Olink Proteomics.

Xiaonan Zhang has been awarded Göran Gustafsson’s Large Prize for young researchers.

Anna Borgenvik and Marit Melsson have been awarded two-year postdoc positions from Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Xingqi Chen and Yumeng Mao each receive a Junior Investigator Award, and Marleen Gloger and Bertin Paranjothi are awarded postdoctoral positions.

The Euro 150 000 grant will be used to develop diagnostic and therapeutic tools for brain tumours towards future commercialisation.

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.