Lectures and seminars How can exercise reduce the risk of getting cancer?

05-10-2021 8:00 am - 8:45 am Add to iCal
Online https://ki-se.zoom.us/s/69313496664

This live-streamed conversation (in Swedish) will enable you to share research findings and the current state of knowledge about how cells, oxygen and exercise are interrelated. It features Helene Rundqvist, researcher at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.

Helene Rundqvist. Photo: Stefan Zimmerman

When we exercise, we not only improve our ability to absorb oxygen and strengthen our muscles, but we affect all our organs in some way. There are thus many possible explanations for the cancer-inhibiting effect noted in physically active people.

This live-streamed conversation (in Swedish) will enable you to share research findings and the current state of knowledge about how cells, oxygen and exercise are interrelated. It features Helene Rundqvist, researcher at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.

The moderator is Cecilia Odlind, editorial director of the magazine Medicinsk Vetenskap (Medical Science) and host of Karolinska Institutet’s popular science podcast Medicinvetarna.

A part of Nobel Calling Stockholm

Every year in October, the recipients of theNobel Prizes will be announced. In connection with this, the Nobel Prize Museum organizes inspirational events and instructive meetings in collaboration with, among others, Karolinska Institutet.