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Laura Fratiglioni, Senior professor at Karolinska Institute is awarded the Great Gerontology Prize by the Swedish Gerontological Association for her contribution to Aging Research.

Report from ClinicaL Trials on Alzheimer's Desease 2022 - ”Positive clinical outcome of Lecanemab immunotherapy and other promising therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer’s"

Missing Link presentation at the UK Stroke Forum 2022.

From the jubilee year of 2010 and onwards, Karolinska Institutet awards medals to people who have made special efforts in support of KI’s activities. There are three categories: the Gold Medal, the Grand Silver Medal and the Silver Medal. Medals are awarded in conjunction with various academic ceremonies.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital and Cellevate AB, have received almost 5 million SEK from Vinnova, to investigate how stem cells interact with their environment. The goal is to develop more effective production of stem cell therapies, and eventually contribute to better treatment of public diseases such as heart failure and diabetes.

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

Patients with treatment resistant depression have a 23 per cent higher risk of death than other depressed patients. They also have twice as much outpatient care and spend three times the number of days in inpatient care. These are findings of a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry by researchers from Karolinska Institutet and elsewhere, who conclude that it is important to identify patients at risk of developing treatment resistant depression.   

Scheduled maintenance work for IDAC on December 14, between 13:00 and 22:00 will take place.
During this day, it will be possible to search for employees / students and use the "Reset password" service in the IDAC portal. Please, we do not ask you to use the remaining services in the IDAC portal between 13:00 and 22:00.

We congratulate the research group Clinical Physiology at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, where a total of five researchers were granted millions from the Swedish Research Council and the Heart-Lung Foundation 2022.

From January 1st, 2023, KI Housing will become part of Karolinska Institutet instead of being an independent company.

FyFa Department Council is a forum where information of different kind can be shared and discussed.

The Cancer and Allergy Fund has awarded a grant of SEK 4.2 million to 23 patient-end projects on cancer and allergies. Of these, fifteen researchers at nine departments at Karolinska Institutet are to share SEK 2.5 million.

In its recent call, the Swedish Research Council has awarded in excess of SEK 19 million for six projects at KI. The project receiving the largest grant aims to study the long-term impact of the pandemic on the lifestyle and health of young adults.

Cluster headache, or Horton’s syndrome, is so painful that it is sometimes referred to as “suicide headache”. Thanks to a donation of SEK 35 million from financier and philanthropist Rune Andersson, research group leader Andrea Carmine Belin will very soon be setting up the world’s first research centre specialising exclusively in cluster headaches.

We congratulate Natalie Glaser and Ulrik Sartipy at the Thoracic Surgery group, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, who receive research grants from the Swedish Heart Lung Foundation.

Welcome to Monica Häggström, who is new Financial controller at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH). Monica started her employment on December 6th and is part of the Economy team at the Central Administration at C2:94.

Associate Professor Volker Lauschke at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (FyFa) receives a Consolidator grant of up to 1.2 million SEK per year over five years.

Administrative news for staff and affiliates at the Department of Neuroscience (issue #2/2022).

A new collaborative study from Karolinska Institutet, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), and Czech Technical University suggests a novel imaging marker of brain connectivity might be a very early indicator of pathological changes in Alzheimer’s disease. This imaging marker could be capable of detecting alterations when formal neuropsychological tests and even standard clinical image-based markers fail.

The nanomaterial graphene oxide—which is used in everything from electronics to sensors for biomolecules—can indirectly affect the immune system via the gut microbiome, as shown in a new study on zebrafish by researchers at Karolinska Institutet. The findings are reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

The planned work with replacement of windows and the planned extension project "Heart" will start significantly later than Hemsö has previously announced.

Problems with managing anger can have severe consequences for the afflicted individual and their loved ones. A new study from the Centre for Psychiatry Research at Karolinska Institutet shows that four weeks of therapy delivered over the internet can help people with anger and aggression. The results have been published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

When Svante Pääbo talked about the importance of Neanderthals, the audience in Aula Medica listened carefully. The Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine explained, among other things, that we carry their genes and that they may have been more sensitive than we think.

Prof. emeritus Rudolf “Rulle” Rigler, an excellent scientist in medical physics and long time member of the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics passed away on October 5, 86 years old.

Welcome to apply for the third KIPRIME Fellows Initiative, planned for August 2023. KIPRIME Fellows aims to nourish the next generation of KIPRIME winners, by offering an inspirational curriculum of mentoring and development activities for stellar, midcareer medical education researchers.

The autumn semester of 2022 saw a new cohort of students arriving at KI to study the part of the Erasmus Mundus Master’s programme Public Health in Disasters, which is conducted by the Centre for Research on Health Care in Disasters. One of the students who came to Stockholm is Bahaa, who is really enjoying his time at KI and in Stockholm.

In this year's announcement of project grants from Radiumhemmets Forskningsfonder, OnkPat received a total of 33 million SEK. 32 researchers were granted funding.

We warmly welcome Professor Marcus Carlsson to the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery. Marcus Carlsson was appointed Professor of Clinical Physiology on November 7, 2022 and he combines the professorship with a position as senior consultant at the Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska University Hospital. Marcus Carlsson was nominated to KI from the National Institutes of Health, USA, where he led the research group "Clinical Physiology".

Due to planned system maintenance KI Open Archive will be unavailable on Tuesday 13 December between 13:00 and 14:00. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Debora Rizzuto, principal researcher and research group leader at the Aging Research Center (ARC), Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at Karolinska Institutet, has received a project grant for a project entitled "SoundMIND – effects of noise on cognition and mental health", from Forte.

Losing too much weight when infected with COVID-19 has been linked to worse outcomes. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 infection fuels blood vessel formation in fat tissues, thus revving up the body’s thermogenic metabolism. Blocking this process by using an existing drug curbed weight loss in mice and hamsters that were infected with the virus, according to the study published in the journal Nature Metabolism.

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It is not unusual för NVS to accept the Work Environment Award. In 2019 Sofia Vikström and the Division of Occupational Therapy were recognized, and a few years prior to that, Maria Hagströmer and the Division of Physiotherapy were awarded. The ambitious work at NVS on work environment is obvious.

KI employees must report secondary occupations annually upon request from the HR department.

The risk of complications in assisted reproduction is higher when two embryos are transferred, instead of one embryo. This has been shown in a study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, which included all births in Sweden 2007-2017.

Tips from KI Grants Office about current calls.

Meet Maria Bradley, research group leader at the Division of Dermatology and Venereology at the Department of Medicine, Solna.

Antiviral drugs almost completely reduce the risk of mothers passing on HIV infection to their children, even in a low-income country with a high HIV incidence such as Tanzania, according to a new study in The Lancet HIV by researchers from Karolinska Institutet. The discovery raises hopes of achieving the World Health Organization’s goal of eliminating the spread of infection from mother to child.

Publication in PloS ONE about tobacco cessation by Tanja Tomson et al., Prevention-Policy and Practice at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME) coincides with Tobacco free week.

Linus Jönsson, affiliated researcher at NVS, Division of Neurogeriatrics, receives EUR 11 million in EU funding for his project "PROMINENT - Precision Medicine in Neurodegeneration". Of this grant, EUR 1.8 million go to KI.

With traditional Swedish fika including glögg and saffronbuns the Global Child Health and Sustainable Development research team invited colleagues at the Department of Global Public Health to celebrate the World Children's Day. It was a great afternoon where colleagues were reminded of the importance of their work and inspired to continue improving lives for all children.

Svante Pääbo hasn’t even collected his 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine yet. Still, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is already dreaming of making new ground-breaking discoveries.

Breathing in common workplace dust and fumes may increase the risk of developing severe rheumatoid arthritis, especially in combination with smoking and genetic susceptibility to the disease, suggests a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in The Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Meet Andreas Adolfsson, Operations technician at FM, operating and working in the Facility Management workshop (FM verkstad), located on floor 2, room A0262) in Biomedicum.

When cancer is detected at an early stage, the rates of survival increase drastically, but today only a few cancer types are screened for. An international study led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and affiliated with Karolinska Institutet shows that a new, previously untested method can find multiple types of newly formed cancers at the same time – including cancer types that are difficult to detect with comparable methods. The results are published in the journal PNAS.

Clinical Studies Sweden launches a new national web page to support clinical studies in Sweden. The web page is aimed at researchers, research staff and life science companies that conduct clinical studies in healthcare. On the web page you can find support, services, training and information about the clinical trial units.

We are approaching Holidays and the closing of the books and would like to remind you of some important information regarding finances and HR.

Congratulations to the many MTCers who have received grants or awards from Swedish funding agencies and from KI this November. No doubt, the department has a very strong future with all these wonderful projects!

Veronika Sundström will take over as the new University Director at Karolinska Institutet. She will begin her new position on 17 April 2023.

The Covid pandemic was the starting point for this year’s Stockholm Life Science Conference - Life Science 2.0 where discussions centred on both the mistakes made and lessons learned from the handling of the pandemic and the rapid development of vaccines.