Published: 07-11-2024 13:12 | Updated: 08-11-2024 17:40

MBB researchers granted over 50 Mkr

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The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) has decided on grant applications within Medicine and Health 2024. Researchers at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics were granted over 50 Mkr together.

  • Molly Stevens (medicine), Development of “cartilage-on-a-chip models” to study osteoarthritis and perform therapeutic tests, 2 142 857 SEK
  • Molly Stevens (Science/engineering), Construction of a tolerogenic synthetic microenvironment (niche) for in situ tolerogenic dendritic cell induction as autoimmune therapy, 5 025 000 SEK
  • Florian Rosenberger, Proteomics with spatial resolution for studies of metabolic disorders, 6 000 000 SEK
  • Bjørt Kragesteen, Deciphering the molecular mechanisms behind human evolutionary adaptation to hypoxia, 5 600 000 SEK
  • Björn Högberg, How does regulation of non-specific membrane proteins work?, 10 000 000 SEK
  • Rikard Holmdahl, Finding the cause of rheumatoid arthritis by using humanized mouse models with the most important polymorphic alleles of HLA-DR and NCF1, 10 000 000 SEK
  • Jens Hjerling-Leffler, Biological principles behind schizophrenia: adolescent specification of cell types in the prefrontal cortex, 5 600 000 SEK
  • Karl Carlstrom, BEAM-MS - How epigenetics in brain cells are regulated by metabolites, 6 000 000 SEK