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In the 1990s, Yoshinori Ohsumi described how our cells keep their house in order. Now that he has been awarded a Nobel Prize for his discoveries, the research field has exploded – cellular waste management has proved to be critical to cancer and many other diseases.

During his nearly 50 years at KI, Professor Ernberg has served as chairman and member of many decision-making and advisory boards and committees at the university. Senior Professor of Tumour Biology at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), he has been awarded the Grand Silver Medal for his invaluable efforts to strengthen and develop the university’s operations.

The Grand Silver Medal 2016 from Karolinska Institutet is awarded to Anders Ekbom, Ingemar Ernberg, Agneta Nordberg, Bengt Norrving and Elisabeth Olsson in special recognition of the outstanding contributions they have made to medical research and Karolinska Institutet.

An ancient area of the midbrain of all vertebrates called the corpora quadrigemina can independently contol and reorientate the eyes, researchers from Karolinska Institutet report in a study published in the journal eLIFE.

Alessandro Furlan, doctoral student at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics has received the Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize 2016 for his thesis "Neuronal types and their specification dynamics in the autonomic nervous system".

Glioblastomas exert an influence on the microglia, immune cells of the brain, which causes them to stimulate cancer growth rather than attacking it. In a study published in the journal Nature Immunology, an international research team led from Karolinska Institutet now explains the molecular mechanisms behind this action.

Ganesh Acharya, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), researches the cardiovascular system of pregnant women and their unborn babies. His research is both clinical and experimental, and aims to increase knowledge about the physiology of pregnancy and to develop methods for the clinical use of new ultrasound technology.