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On the 25 September 2014, Forte's board approved this years applications for research projects, junior research grants and postdocs.

Physical exercise has many beneficial effects on human health, including the protection from stress-induced depression. However, until now the mechanisms that mediate this protective effect have been unknown.

An internal contest has been ongoing between a little band of researchers at Karolinska Institutet. And the one who succeeds in quoting Bob Dylan in most scientific articles before going into retirement is the winner.

[Edit: Bengt Samuelsson passed away on July 5, 2024. This article was written in 2014.] Karolinska Institutet’s former Vice-Chancellor, the Nobel Prize Laureate Bengt Samuelsson, reached the age of 80 in 2014. At the end of August that year, researchers from around the world, met up to honour him as founder of the research field Lipid Mediators with a three-day symposium.