Research prize to Peter Nygren

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.

The foundation Diabetes Wellness Sweden has awarded Marcus Lundberg at IGP a grant of SEK 200 000 for studying the role of the pancreas’ acinar tissue for the etiology of the disease.

The foundation Sjöbergstiftelsen has decided to award grants to two applications from IGP researchers.

The Childhood Cancer Foundation has decided to support Yumeng Mao and Theresa Vincent with research grants in the coming years.

Marika Nestor and Anja Mortensen receive the “Attractive Innovation Project" award 2019 for their project Anatycan – innovative method drives the development of drugs for the treatment of severe form of cancer.

Ulf Gyllensten is awarded one of this year’s Rudbeck Medals for his successful studies of genetics and molecular epidemiology in humans.

Elisabetta Dejana has been at Uppsala University and IGP for five years, which has been of great importance for the research in the vascular biology programme. In connection with a halftime follow-up of her activities, her work is presented in an article on the University web site.

The Swedish Cancer Society has granted funding of in total SEK 75 million to 13 IGP researchers.

On Tuesday, 12 November, Taija Mäkinen will give her inauguration lecture as new professor at Uppsala University and IGP.

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

Anna Dimberg, Magnus Essand, Bengt Westermark and Elisabetta Dejana are awarded SEK 31.5 million for a project that aims to develop new treatment strategies for brain tumour patients.

At the ongoing conference ESMO Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Birgitta Johansson has been awarded for best poster in the category Psycho-Oncology.

Yumeng Mao has recently taken up a position as associate senior lecturer at IGP. In this week’s issue of the journal Science he shares his plans for how he intends to make use of his experiences from industry in his work in academia

Elisabet Ihse, Helena Kaihola, Maria Wilbe and Artur Mezheyeuski have been awarded research grants from the foundation P.O. Zetterlings stiftelse and Masood Kamali-Moghaddam has received a grant from Anna Cederbergs’ foundation.

Cecilia Lindskog Bergström has been granted 650,000 Euro from the EU programme H2020 for creating a single-cell and spatial reference map of the human uterus.

IGP researcher Mark Richards has been awarded a post doc fellowship from the Swedish Society for Medical Research.

Fredrik Pontén has been awarded Region Uppsala’s research prize for 2018.

The Swedish Brain Foundation has decided to grant Jan Dumanski SEK 600 000 for a project about the association between Alzheimer’s disease and loss of chromosome Y.

At the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters’ annual meeting, Maria Ulvmar and her research group were awarded a grant from the Ruth and Nils-Erik Stenbäck Foundation.

Marika Nestor and Ulf Landegren have been granted research funding for collaborative projects.