Four IGP researchers in the UU Innovation Mentor Programme
2022-09-26
Xingqi Chen, Mathias Rask-Andersen, Nina Schiller and Hongxing Zhao have been accepted for the autumn round of the UU Innovation Mentor Programme.
In the programme, doctoral students and researchers are matched with experienced mentors working outside academia, with the aim to accelerate the utilisation of new ideas and research results. During the course of the programme, the researcher and the mentor meet regularly at mutually agreed intervals. The mentor’s role is to contribute with new perspectives, knowledge and contacts. In the autumn round 2022, ten PhD students and researchers participate
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Four IGP researchers in the UU Innovation Mentor Programme
2022-09-26
Xingqi Chen, Mathias Rask-Andersen, Nina Schiller and Hongxing Zhao have been accepted for the autumn round of the UU Innovation Mentor Programme.
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Three IGP teachers appointed as Excellent Teachers
2022-08-26
Marie Allen, Masood Kamali-Moghaddam and Malin Lagerström have been appointed as Excellent Teachers by the Disciplinary Domain for Medicine and Pharmacy.
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Johan Rung receives Research Infrastructure Fellows grant
2022-07-01
Johan Rung has been awarded SEK 15 million for five years in the SSF programme Research Infrastructure Fellows 2.
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Lena Claesson-Welsh awarded the Rudbeck medal
2022-06-23
Lena Claesson-Welsh is rewarded for her research on blood vessels and their role in health and disease.
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Yumeng Mao Research Leader of the Future
2022-06-21
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.
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Olof Rudbeck Prize 2022 to Ulf Landegren
2022-06-15
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.
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Three IGP projects receive the Attractive Innovation Project award
2022-06-02
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.
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Panagiotis Baliakas awarded Region Uppsala’s research prize 2021
2022-05-31
He is awarded for his research in clinical genetics where he has developed the hematological diagnostics at Uppsala University Hospital.
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Masood Kamali-Moghaddam to host Ukrainian scientist
2022-05-30
Masood Kamali-Moghaddam has been granted funding from the Wallenberg Foundations to host a scientist from Ukraine.
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Marie Allen receives Uppsala University’s Pedagogical Award
2022-05-25
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.
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IGP project on IVA’s new 100 list for technology in the service of humanity
2022-05-11
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.
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award to Ulf Landegren
2022-05-04
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.
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Göran Gustafsson prize to Xiaonan Zhang
2022-04-06
Xiaonan Zhang has been awarded Göran Gustafsson’s Large Prize for young researchers.
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The Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation funds postdoc positions for IGP researchers
2022-04-01
Anna Borgenvik and Marit Melsson have been awarded two-year postdoc positions from Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation.
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Swedish Cancer Society positions to IGP researchers
2022-03-25
Xingqi Chen and Yumeng Mao each receive a Junior Investigator Award, and Marleen Gloger and Bertin Paranjothi are awarded postdoctoral positions.
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Fredrik Swartling awarded ERC Proof of Concept grant
2022-02-07
The Euro 150 000 grant will be used to develop diagnostic and therapeutic tools for brain tumours towards future commercialisation.
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Company founded by IGP researchers receive support for innovation project
2022-01-19
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.