Grants, prizes and donations
KI researcher Laura Baranello awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
KI researcher Laura Baranello has been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for her researches into the interaction between the cancer-driving protein MYC and topoisomerase enzymes. Her aim is to identify drugs for more targeted cancer therapy with fewer side-effects. Laura Baranello’s MYCinTOPshape project has been awarded approximately EUR 2 million to be spread over five years.
Two KI researchers awarded SEK 19 million from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund
Through a new call form, the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund is funding two research programmes that will look at different types of unwanted side effects, primarily from chemotherapy. Precision medicine and the opportunities offered by the development of biomarkers are common to the two programmes, which are led by KI researchers Susanna Ranta and Kenny Rodriguez-Wallberg, respectively, and which now share SEK 19 million over four years.
KI researchers receive grant of SEK 19 million for research on long COVID
Two researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been awarded grants from the PolyBio Research Foundation totalling USD 1.85 million dollars (SEK 19 million) for research into long COVID. It is hoped that the studies will provide valuable insights that can promote the development of more efficacious treatments for long COVID, which is still a puzzling condition.
ERC Proof of Concept to Professor Per-Olof Berggren
Professor Per-Olof Berggren has been awarded a ERC Proof of Concept grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The funding will be used to advance a technology in which islets of Langerhans are transplanted into the anterior chamber of the eye and employed as a screening tool to identify novel pharmaceutical treatments for diabetes.
The Conversation
Can an anti-HIV drug reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease in women?
Why brain waves make us fair to others
Whenever we make choices in a social setting about how much we want to share with others we must navigate between our own selfish interests and social norms for fairness. But how fair are we truly? KI-researcher Patricia Christian explains why no one takes the last piece of cake.
The curious link between animal hibernation and ageing
When the cold and dark winter is setting in, some of us envy animals that can hibernate. This long, deep rest is an example of how nature develops clever solution to difficult problems – and is something that science can learn from, according to KI researcher Peter Stenvinkel.
More articles from KI researchers published in The Conversation
From cold-resistant genes to face masks, Karolinska Institutet researchers contribute to the global public discourse on a range of topics through our collaboration with the international news site The Conversation.
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Selected top publications
New study links DEK protein to Alzheimer’s neuronal changes
Patricia Rodriguez-Rodriguez et al, Brain, March 2024.
New insight into c-MYC protein could pave the way for new cancer treatments
Dilraj Lama et al, Nature Communications, February 2024
New method enables DNA profiling at single-cell resolution
Jinxin Chen et al, Nature Communications, February 2024
Study reveals how spiders make super-strong silk
Gefei Chen et al, Advanced Functional Materials, February 2024
Here are the traits we inherited from Neandertals and Denisovans
Hugo Zeberg, Mattias Jakobsson & Svante Pääbo, Cell, February 2024
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