Sylwia Libard awarded for this year’s best thesis

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.

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