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Counting down to Christmas, a calendar of delight,
Each day's a surprise, keeping you active and bright.
Jump, walk, dance - a festive move to unfold,
In this active calendar, warmth and wellness to hold!
Each day's a surprise, keeping you active and bright.
Jump, walk, dance - a festive move to unfold,
In this active calendar, warmth and wellness to hold!
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Audience: Medarbetare
The Ministry of Education and Research has recently tasked Bertil Lindahl with producing source material for a renegotiation of the national ALF agreement (ref. no U2022/02845). The ALF is a national agreement entered into between the government and certain regions on collaboration on medical education, clinical research and healthcare development.
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Audience: Medarbetare
KI’s residential management conference in October among deans, heads of department, administrative managers, academic vice presidents and heads of office proved as conducive to healthy debate as it was to pleasant socialising. Our discussions were based on the nine focus areas that have crystallised out of our dialogue with students, staff and managers about what KI needs to focus on in order to attain the goals and vision set out in Strategy 2030.
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Audience: Medarbetare
The award is presented by the Pediatric research foundation ”Stiftelsen Barnforskningen” at the Astrid Lindgren Children’s hospital.
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C8 Medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik
Meet Anna Smed Sörensen, research group leader at the Division of Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Solna.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K2 Medicin, Solna, K2.Imm o lung
Meet Johan Askling, research group leader at the Division of Clinical Epidemiology (KEP), Department of medicine, Solna.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K2 Medicin, Solna, K2.KEP
Last Wednesday (11 October), the Research Funding Commission presented its report to Minister of Education Mats Persson. Its findings are likely to inform a forthcoming bill reflecting the government’s research and innovation policy.
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Audience: Medarbetare
We’re now a few weeks into the term, and our students - both freshers and those who have returned after the summer break – have been welcomed to Karolinska Institutet. We were once all at the start of our student careers – we need to remember this, to inspire the coming generation and include them in an enjoyable student life.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Welcome to a new academic year! Even though many of you have already returned to work after the summer break, it’s certainly when students start returning to our campuses that Karolinska Institutet becomes the gloriously vibrant place that a university is meant to be.
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Audience: Medarbetare
I trust that many of you are already heading off on a nice, relaxing holiday and I too will soon be taking a few weeks’ break. But the spring term is an intense one even up to the last minute, and there are a few events and impressions I like to share before sun and sea take over.
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Audience: Medarbetare
The time for a welcome and well-deserved summer break is quickly approaching. It’s a welcome period of recuperation and relaxation, and I myself will be spending it with my family at home and in the Stockholm archipelago, which offers the time and space I need to relax and think creatively.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Together – and with our partners around the world – we perceive the issues that enable KI as a university to generate the most effective societal benefit in everything we do. We cannot contribute in this way alone, we the university management are now inviting all KI staff to dialogue meetings.
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Audience: Medarbetare
The web page Research Support & Services has recently been developed to provide an overview of the support and specialised competences available to all researchers, both at their departments and at other units at KI.
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Audience: Medarbetare
The FM newsletter is sent to all employees working in Biomedicum about twice a semester and includes news from the Facility Management.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Maja Fjaestad is the latest in a line of expert coordinators that have been recruited to the Centre for Health Crises at KI. The LIME-researcher and former under-secretary of state will work in the expert field of policy and preparedness. She looks forward to contributing with a holistic outlook when it comes to health threats.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K9 Global folkhälsa, K9.GPH.Stålsby Lundborg, K9.GPH.von Schreeb
Meet Elisabet Svenungsson, research group leader at the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Solna.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K2 Medicin, Solna
Meet research group leader Olof Stephansson, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Solna.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K2 Medicin, Solna
Meet Ning Xu Landén, research group leader at the division of dermatology and venereology, Department of Medicine, Solna.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K2 Medicin, Solna
Meet Åsa Wheelock, research group leader at the division of respiratory medicine, department of medicine, Solna.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K2 Medicin, Solna
Meet research group leader John Pernow, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Solna.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K2 Medicin, Solna
We asked three managers at KI Biobank about the main lessons they take away from last year.
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Audience: Medarbetare
C8.Biobanken
Vice President Anders Gustafsson shares his thoughts on leadership and working methods based on lessons learned from the pandemic.
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Audience: Medarbetare
The recruitment process for KI’s new vice-president has begun, and staff and students are invited to nominate suitable candidates.
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Audience: Medarbetare
What does continuous learning mean to us, and what can it look like in practice? These questions were the focus for the 170 participants who participated in the two day Educational Congress. The congress was permeated by meetings, inspiration and exchange of knowledge and experiences in the field. Among the activities at the congress, KI's pedagogical policy was launched.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Centre for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics arranges a networking event for researchers within bioinformatics and biostatistics Friday October 7th from 12 pm to 6 pm. The event takes place right after the conference Collaboration in Science 2022 and will be held in Neo building at Campus Flemingsberg. Register before September 9th!
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Audience: Medarbetare
OV Universitetstandvården, H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, OF Odontologi, S1 Klinisk forskning och utbildning, Södersjukhuset, H9 Klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, H5 Laboratoriemedicin
This year’s Grand Silver Medals are awarded to Jan Andersson, Stefan Einhorn and Ingrid Lundberg. The medal recognises excellence in support of Karolinska Institutet and is awarded during the installation ceremony in Aula Medica on October 13.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K7 Onkologi-Patologi, K2 Medicin, Solna, H7 Medicin, Huddinge
Science photographer Martin Oeggerli is the recipient of the 2022 Lennart Nilsson Award for his ability to illuminate science.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Björn Meister at the Department of Neuroscience is awarded the 2022 prize for his long-standing commitment to teaching at several of Karolinska Institutet's educational programmes.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Administrative news for staff and affiliates at the Department of Neuroscience (issue #1/2022).
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Audience: Medarbetare
C4 Neurovetenskap
Researchers from the Division of Biochemistry, in collaboration with scientists from University of L'Aquila in Italy, Rush University and University of California San Francisco in the US, have now for the first time characterized the crystal structure and activity of the B. malayi and O. volvulus antioxidant systems, thereby paving the way for the development of more efficient targeted redox-based therapies.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Threats or violence in the workplace is never acceptable. Hatred, threats and harassment against researchers, but also against other occupational groups, is unfortunately not a new phenomenon but has lately also increased, especially among employees working with research related to COVID-19. This is of course a very unfortunate development and KI wants to raise awareness of the support that is available to you as an employee.
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Audience: Medarbetare
We are approaching Holidays ans the closing of the books and would like to remind you of some important information regarding finances and HR.
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Audience: Medarbetare
C2 Medicinsk biokemi och biofysik
In January, Karolinska Institutet will become a member of the international news platform The Conversation. This will provide another platform for our researchers to bring their knowledge to the general public. The initiative is part of the Communications and Public Relations Office’s commitment to Strategy 2030 and includes helping researchers to write popular science articles in English.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Are you interested in recruiting a bioinformatician or biostatistician? The centre for bioinformatics and biostatistics (CBB) is coordinating recruitments with possibility to make joint employments.
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Audience: Medarbetare
C1 Mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi, H5 Laboratoriemedicin, H9 Klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, OV Universitetstandvården, H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, OF Odontologi, K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K6 Kvinnors och barns hälsa, K7 Onkologi-Patologi, K9 Global folkhälsa, K1 Molekylär medicin och kirurgi, K2 Medicin, Solna, D1 Kliniska vetenskaper, Danderyds sjukhus, CC Komparativ Medicin, C2 Medicinsk biokemi och biofysik, C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C3 Fysiologi och farmakologi, CA INCF, C4 Neurovetenskap, C5 Cell- och molekylärbiologi
Lingjia Yin is a Doctoral student at the Department of Global Public Health (GPH) and we have asked her a few questions about her experience and what she enjoys the most at GPH.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K9 Global folkhälsa, K9.GPH.Stålsby Lundborg
Both students and employees are starting to be back at Campus again, and we have asked Helle Mölsted Alvesson how it feels to be back at the office at the Department of Global Public Health.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K9 Global folkhälsa, K9.GPH.Stålsby Lundborg, K9.GPH.Hanson
Kristina Haugaa is the new Professor of Cardiology at the Department of Medicine in Huddinge, since October 11. "I'm eager and thrilled to conduct cardiology research at Karolinska Institutet".
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Audience: Medarbetare
H7 Medicin, Huddinge
Four questions to FyFa employees Rebecka Jakobsson, HR-partner and Duarte Ferreira, Assistant professor, about their experiences participating in FyFa Health Challange.
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Audience: Medarbetare
C3 Fysiologi och farmakologi
Unfortunately, there have been a number of thefts both from the bicycle garage and from other places in Biomedicum during the past month.
We therefore ask you to think about locking your bikes and electric scooters properly, to not leave any valuables in the open, and
call the Biomedicum security guard if you see anything suspicious or someone unauthorized in the building.
We therefore ask you to think about locking your bikes and electric scooters properly, to not leave any valuables in the open, and
call the Biomedicum security guard if you see anything suspicious or someone unauthorized in the building.
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Audience: Medarbetare
C1 Mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi, C2 Medicinsk biokemi och biofysik, C3 Fysiologi och farmakologi, C4 Neurovetenskap, C5 Cell- och molekylärbiologi
The Animal Rights Alliance (Djurrättsalliansen) is currently running a campaign to “retire” five monkeys used for research at KI. The campaign includes appeals on social media and distribution of leaflets on the Solna campus. KI uses monkeys for medical research, such as that conducted for vaccine development, when no other options are available.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Haohao Wu is awarded the prize for her thesis "The molecular basis of the development and diversity of proprioceptive neurons: a story of surviving and thriving”.
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Audience: Medarbetare
For a little more than 1.5 years, the harmonized professional services programme has focused on coordinating work methods and processes. The programme, which is soon to be wrapped up, has been a starting point for further work.
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Audience: Medarbetare
On 29 May, the government announced that as of 15 June, higher education institutions may return to campus-based teaching. The recommendations issued by the Swedish Public Health Agency for containing the spread of the virus apply as much to HEIs as they do to general society, and require a responsible approach to the planning of a return to campus-based teaching.
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Audience: Medarbetare
A major effort to strengthen KI's strategic collaboration capacity has recently been achieved. This is a Vinnova-funded initiative that has been ongoing over the past three years. The lessons now learned and the results from the projects will form a natural part of KI's research and education.
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Audience: Medarbetare
There are many questions surrounding how best to communicate your operations and how to find the right support to do so. In the communications subproject within the project Coherent operational support, work has been started to make it even clearer what communications support is available – the goal is to produce a kind of service catalogue for KI's employees.
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Audience: Medarbetare
The Department of Global Public Health will be involved in several courses in the new 6-year medical program that begins in Spring 2021.
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Audience: Medarbetare
K9 Global folkhälsa
Initially, the project was to focus on the budget process in externally funded research projects. But it became clear, quite early on, that something else was to be prioritised. Ideas on how to better support researchers emerged, based on the vision of a harmonised professional service.
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Audience: Medarbetare
To succeed in the international competition, researchers at Karolinska Institutet need secure access to cutting-edge technology as well as a wide range of basic core-facilities. The Research Committee has therefore adopted a strategy for activities related to core-facilities and research infrastructure until 2024.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Simplifying processes for research-related agreements is one of the main goals of the sub-project within the programme Harmonized professional services.
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Audience: Medarbetare
Initially, the work was sluggish for the members of the project group Accounting within the programme 'A harmonized professional services'. Over the past few months, they have developed a collaboration that has profoundly changed the way they work.
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Audience: Medarbetare