Nyheter från IGP under 2019

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.

The Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation has awarded grants for a four-year researcher position for Yumeng Mao and a two-year postdoc position for Mohanraj Ramachandran.

The Swedish Cancer Society’s grant Senior Clinical Investigator Award has this year been granted Ingrid Glimelius and Gustav Ullenhag at IGP.

Lena Claesson-Welsh and Christer Betsholtz have been awarded “bridging grants” of SEK 6 million and SEK 3 million respectively from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Knut och Alice Wallenberg Foundation has decided to select Taija Mäkinen as Wallenberg Scholar. The award includes funding of SEK 18 million for five years.

The Swedish Cancer Society’s grant Junior Clinical Investigator Award has this year been granted Ingrid Glimelius at IGP.

The support initiative Verification for collaboration at Uppsala University has granted funding to Cecilia Lindskog Bergström for development of an AI method for more accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer. The project is a collaboration with the company ContextVision.

IGP researcher Xingqi Chen has been awarded a Göran Gustafsson Prize for young researchers.

Olle Korsgren has together with Di Yu and Magnus Essand at IGP, and Matthias Löhr at LI, been awarded a two-year grant from the Sjöberg Foundation.

At a ceremony in Paris on 11 December, Elisabetta Dejana was awarded a gold medal for her outstanding research career, spanning Italy, Sweden and France.

The Drug Discovery and Development Platform at SciLifeLab has granted support to Marika Nestor for the development of radioimmunotherapy against anaplastic thyroid cancer.

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation invests several million SEK over a ten-year period in research on tree genes, forest genetics and forest biotechnology. The project is a collaboration between SLU and SciLifeLab and Uppsala Genome Center at IGP participates in the characterisation of the spruce and pine tree genomes.