Eight KI researchers receive grants from the Asthma and Allergy Association's Research Fund

The Asthma and Allergy Association's Research Fund (Stiftelsen Astma- och Allergiförbundets Forskningsfond) annually awards research grants for scientific research on asthma, allergy, atopic eczema and other hypersensitivities. 

This year, the fund is distributing more than usual, almost nine million kronor, to 15 researchers spread across the country. Eight of the researchers work at Karolinska Institutet.

KI researchers receiving grants

Catarina Almqvist Malmros, professor at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Awarded funding for the research project ”Värmeböljor, grönområden och risken för astma hos barn” (Heat waves, green areas and the risk of asthma in children).
Total grant amount: SEK 600,000
Number of years: 3 

Inger Kull, professor at the Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset
Awarded funding for the research project ”Ett nytt program för strukturerad överföring mellan barn och vuxensjukvård för ungdomar med astma” (A new programme for structured transfer between children and adult healthcare for adolescents with asthma).
Total grant amount: SEK 600,000
Number of years: 3 

Sandra Ekström, researcher at the Institute of Environmental Medicine and the Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset
Awarded funding for the research project ”Astmafenotyper och livsstil i relation till yrkesutfall – en nationell registerbaserad studie” (Asthma phenotypes and lifestyle in relation to occupational outcomes – a national register-based study).
Total granted amount: SEK 600,000
Number of years: 3 

Björn Nordlund, researcher at the Department of Women's and Children's Health
Awarded funding for the research project ”PreventADALL – Preventing food allergy in schoolchildren with early invention” (PreventADALL – Preventing food allergy in schoolchildren with early invention)y.
Total granted amount: SEK 600,000
Number of years: 3 

Emma Johansson, researcher at the Department of Medicine, Solna
Awarded funding for the research project ”Systemisk behandling hos patienter med svår atopisk dermatit” (Systemic treatment in patients with severe atopic dermatitis).
Total grant amount: SEK 600,000
Number of years: 3 

Mats Lekander, professor at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Funding for the research project ”Trötthet, kognition och psykiska symptom vid allergisk rinit: en psykoneuro-immunologisk ansats för att förstå ett vanligt problem” (Fatigue, cognition and psychological symptoms in allergic rhinitis: a psychoneuro-immunological approach to understanding a common problem).
Total grant amount: SEK 600,000
Number of years:  3 

Anna Asarnoj, researcher at the Department of Women's and Children's Health
Awarded a grant for the research project ”Bota matallergi hos barn – ett paradigmskifte från passiv till aktiv behandling med multi-allergen oral immunterapi för småbarn; InFO-studien (Infant Food Oral Immunotherapy)” (Cure food allergy in children – a paradigm shift from passive to active treatment with multi-allergen oral immunotherapy for young children; The InFO study (Infant Food Oral Immunotherapy)).
Total grant amount: SEK 600,000
Number of years: 3 

Theo Gülen, researcher at the Department of Medicine, Solna, and the Department of Medicine, Huddinge
Funding is awarded for the research project ”Återkommande anafylaxier – kan vi förutsäga vem som riskerar att drabbas?” (Recurrent anaphylaxis – can we predict who is at risk of being affected?).
Total granted amount: SEK 600,000
Number of years: 3