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This week the British Journal of Pharmacology publishes a themed section entitled “WNT Signalling: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities”.

MTC awards were presented to the following categories and recipients from the Head of Department Pontus Aspenström this December:

Five researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been approved Distinguished Professor Grant by the Swedish Research Council, each of approximately 3.5-5 million SEK annualy for ten years. In total almost half a billion SEK will be allocated to ten researchers in Sweden.

Nick Tobin, Arian Lundberg and colleagues have shown the broad clinical utility of the Recurrence Score and PAM50 breast cancer gene signatures in two papers published simultaneously in Clinical Cancer Research.

Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam has been awarded a Distinguished Professor Grant from Vetenskapsrådet, one of 5 recipients at Karolinska Institutet. The grant for the project "Genetic studies of antibody diversity" consists of a 5 Million SEK yearly grant over a ten year period for a total amount of 50 Million SEK.

Igor Adameyko, senior researcher at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, was awarded the Hans Wigzell Research Foundation Science Prize (Hans Wigzells Forskningsstiftelses vetenskapspris) on November 29, 2017.

Possible rapid and lasting antidepressant mechanisms of action of ketamine.