Post doc grants to three of IGP’s new PhDs

Anna Borgenvik, Ida Larsson and Virginia Panara have been awarded grants from the Swedish Research Council to spend post doc periods abroad.

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation as decided to appoint IGP researcher Xingqi Chen as Wallenberg Academy Fellow. He is awarded a research grant of SEK 1.8 million per year for five years.

The Swedish Cancer Society has granted funding of SEK 44.5 million in total, to 15 IGP researchers.

Oskar Eriksson and Maryam Oroujeni have been awarded grants from the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF).

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

IGP researchers Marika Nestor and Tobias Sjöblom have each been awarded a research grant of SEK 6 million for three years.

The DanioReadout facility provides services for researchers who wish to use zebrafish to study human diseases and substance exposure. The facility is supported by SciLifeLab and will be moving its operation to IGP shortly.

Gunilla Enblad is rewarded for her preclinical research on the tumour type lymphoma and the interaction between tumour cells and surrounding immune cells.

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has published a film about how Henrik Boije uses zebrafish to study the nervous system.

The award Årets hedersupplänning is presented to someone who is born or active in the Uppland county, or who has another close link to Uppland, and who has made important contributions for the county.

IGP researchers Karin Forsberg Nilsson, Finn Hallböök, Åsa Johansson, Malin Lagerström and Fredrik Swartling have been granted funding from the Swedish Brain Foundation.

Lena Claesson-Welsh is acknowledged for her seminal work in vascular biology where her studies have contributed to a deeper understanding of vascular biology principles that have paved the way for important medical breakthroughs.

Oskar Eriksson has been awarded the 2023 prize for young researchers, which is intended to support young researchers who are setting up their own research group.

Lene Uhrbom has been awarded a project grant of 1.6 M SEK over three years for a project on the severe brain tumour form glioblastoma.

Anzhelika Vorobyeva receives a Junior Investigator Award, Hanna Mogensen is awarded a fellowship in caring sciences, and Stefanos Barbera, Hanna Grauers Wiktorin, Hitesh Mangukiya and Ram Prakash Yadav are granted postdoctoral positions.

A gift of USD 4.5 million from an American company has been donated to a project led by David Berglund, Associate Professor at IGP.

UU Innovation has awarded the Attractive Innovation Project Award to five projects that are on the path from idea to innovation. Three of the projects are led by IGP researchers.

Malin Lagerström has been awarded the prize Limbiska priset. The prize is awarded by the Biomedicine Programme, for teachers who have made a big impact and been an inspiration for the students.

Masood Kamali-Mogahaddam at IGP is part of an international consortium that aims to develop a blood test for early detection of pancreatic cancer. Earlier in February, all partners met in Hamburg for a kick-off.

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.