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Daniel C. Andersson, researcher at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, and clinical cardiologist at Karolinska University Hospital, has been awarded the ‘Harald and Greta Jeansson Foundation Research Award 2018’. The ceremony took place on May 22, 2018.

Per-Olof Berggren, Professor of Experimental Endocrinology and Research Group Leader of the group Signal Transduction at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery has been elected member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, KAST.

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and University of North Carolina, USA, have identified the cell types underlying schizophrenia in a new study published in Nature Genetics. The findings offer a roadmap for the development of new therapies to target the condition.

New research in an article in PLoS Pathogens this week from authors Xiaogang Feng, Susanne Nylén, Cajsa Classon, Antonio Rothfuchs, Ulf Ribacke and Jonathan Coquet at MTC suggests that chronic infection with intestinal worms makes the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis less effective.

Colliding ideals - internal and external validity

The SFO for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine is proud to announce six awardees in the 2018 application round, two in each category.

On Friday May 25, Kathleen Bokenberger will defend her thesis "The role of sleep and shift work in dementia and cognitive aging: an epidemiological approach".