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Every year, hundreds of thousands of newborns die from preventable complications during birth. A new doctoral thesis examines neonatal resuscitation practices in Vietnam and introduces innovative airway solutions that could save lives worldwide.

For teachers at KI interested in topics related to teaching for planetary health, sustainable development, and sustainable healthcare, there is now a resource bank with teaching materials and a network for support and knowledge exchange.

Forced to flee as a child, today Elham Rostami saves lives in emergency situations – and conducts research to understand why some patients with brain injuries recover unexpectedly well. 

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and specialise in the body. The study, which has been published in the journal PNAS, can provide important knowledge about why this process sometimes goes wrong and leads to disease.

We are approaching the annual closing of the books for 2025 and would like to take the opportunity to remind you of some important facts. Take notice of the deadlines both regarding HR and Finance.

At the beginning of 2026, Karolinska Institutet announces research grants from the Hildegun and Mats Guldbrand research foundation for research in immune regulation and women's diseases.

The 2026 funds for the category of women's diseases refer to research in gynecological cancer.

During 1–10 December 2025, doctoral students participated in the hybrid doctoral course “Sustainable Health and the 2030 Agenda." The course provided students and early-stage researchers with an in-depth orientation to sustainable health within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the interconnections between the Sustainable Development Goals and global public health. The course will be given again in December 2026.

Researcher Carolina Hagberg at the Department of Medicine, Solna (MedS), has been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for her research on obesity and cardiometabolic health. By mapping the interaction between adipose tissue and atherosclerosis, her research group hopes to uncover new insights that can help prevent cardiometabolic diseases.

New parking provider and digital payment system on KI's campus from 1 January

The 2025 Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered how the immune system keeps itself in check, paving the way for new treatments for autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes, MS and cancer. Before a packed Aula Medica, the trio described decades of challenges and successes that led to the world’s most coveted science prize.

During the past year, 33 lower secondary schools have assisted KI researchers in collecting soil samples from preschools across Sweden as part of the project Bakteriejakten. On 5 December, a final conference was held at the Nobel Prize Museum, featuring one of this year’s Nobel laureates, Fred Ramsdell.

As employee at KI you are entitled to compensation for certain healthcare costs and medicines covered by the pharmaceutical benefits and are included in the high-cost protection scheme. Applications for reimbursement can be made once a year and must be registered before 31 January, 2026.

When Oluwatobi (Tobi) Ayodele came to Sweden to start Karolinska Institutet's global Master's Programme in Health Economics, Policy and Management, he was prepared for challenges. But they were different from what he had thought from the beginning and they had unexpected results. Tobi Ayodele shares how what seemed limiting at first has actually changed his academic and professional goals and life outside the classroom for the better.

Congratulations to Åsa Carlsson Tedgren, who from 1 December 2025 joins the Department of Oncology-Pathology as adjunct professor.

KI researchers Carolina Hagberg and Jenny Mjösberg have been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant following a fiercely competitive application process. They will be using the money to further scientific knowledge about two major medical challenges: obesity-related cardiovascular disease and severe asthma.

High-resolution structures explain the mechanism of human PNPase and provide insights into mutations causing hereditary hearing loss and neurological disease.

Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Karolinska University Hospital have signed a collaboration agreement on medical library services. From 1 July 2026, the Karolinska Institutet University Library (KIB) will provide library services for Karolinska University Hospital.

How can we reduce the climate impact of consumption – from the food we eat to how we travel, live and shop? This question was at the heart of AIMday Sustainable Consumption, held on 3 December at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and organised by the University Alliance Stockholm Trio.

In October 2025, Karolinska Institutet launched a brand-new two-week course giving PhD students a unique insight into how advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs), treatments based on cells, genes or tissues, are developed and manufactured.

Veijo Salo, new research group leader at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Karolinska Institutet has received SSMF (Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forskning) starting grant 2025.

Pandu Habibie, stationed in Surabaya, Indonesia, recently held his ISP seminar via Zoom. As part of the KI–UNAIR Twinning Programme, his research focuses on better management of preeclampsia—one of the leading causes of maternal deaths in Indonesia.

Cecilia Ringborg, a postdoctoral researcher in the Surgical Care Science group, has been awarded the Cancer Association PALEMA’s project grant for young cancer researchers. She received SEK 25,000 and a diploma on September 26, when PALEMA, together with Karolinska Institutet and the National Register for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer (NREV), organised the full-day conference "Vägen framåt" (The path ahead).

A digital system for parking permits and payment is to be introduced on both KI campuses on 1 January 2026. Parking spaces are to be provided by Akademiska Hus, whose contract with Smart Parkering will commence on that date.

Richard Rosenquist Brandell has been named Pharmaceutical Profile of the Year 2025 for his dedicated work in building a national infrastructure for precision medicine. The award is presented by Läkemedelsmarknaden in collaboration with Dagens Medicin and Dagens Industri.

All PhD students at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge are invited to take part in a new well-being pilot programme in the spring of 2026. The programme focuses on a combination of well-being, sustainable self-leadership, and relational leadership in the PhD role.

Caroline Gahrton at the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID), at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH), defends her thesis titled "Hepatitis C in people who inject drugs - prevalence, incidence, mortality, and treatment uptake", on 12 December 2025. Main supervisor is Soo Aleman (MedH).

New ordering method for products previously covered by the agreement with PeproTech EC Ltd regarding Laboratory chemicals, reagents and kits and biological products (2-505/2023)

Children who spend a significant amount of time on social media tend to experience a gradual decline in their ability to concentrate. This is according to a comprehensive study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Pediatrics Open Science, where researchers followed more than 8,000 children from around age 10 through age 14.

According to a new study, lower doses of approved immunotherapy for malignant melanoma can give better results against tumours, while reducing side effects. This is reported by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals an unexpected role for immature glial cells known as oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) in shaping the developing human brain.

A new international study published in The Lancet Oncology shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can be more accurate than experienced radiologists in detecting pancreatic cancer on computed tomography (CT) scans. The study is a collaboration between Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and the University of Bergen in Norway.

Congratulations to Linnea Hedin from the Department of Medicine, Huddinge who has been awarded a starting grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR).

Linnea is awarded SEK 6 000 000 for four years for the project "A digital lifestyle intervention in primary healthcare to prevent cardiovascular disease: Evaluating effectiveness, health economic aspects, and implementation in clinical practice".

Karin Dembrower was honored with this year's AI@KI Award for her outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence in healthcare – not only through pioneering research, but also by successfully translating these innovations into clinical practice.

The Cell, the National Museum of Science and Technology's branch in Hagastaden, invites KI staff to the last events of the year. Discover the connection between biology, geometry and creativity in a workshop with KI student Samayeen Rahman on 9 December, or listen to Teresa Wennberg, a pioneer in digital art, on 11 December.

The My Media and Media Gallery features in Canvas, which use Kaltura to store video and audio in your Canvas courses, will be discontinued. Starting 8 December, it will no longer be possible to upload new videos to My Media and Media Gallery. You will still be able to view your videos via My Media and Media Gallery in your Canvas course. To continue working with educational videos and audio files in Canvas, please use Canvas Studio going forward.

Congratulations to Sidinh Luc at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, who was appointed as Associate Professor in experimental hematology at the Docent Committee meeting on November 11, 2025.

Members of the International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (IADR) have elected George Belibasakis, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden to serve as Vice-president.

A Karolinska Institutet (KI) delegation led by KI Vice President Martin Bergö visited Hong Kong and mainland China in November to deepen academic partnerships and connection with KI alumni and to participate in a joint KI-SDU symposium.

The Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Shandong University (SDU) held their Joint Symposium in Jinan, China, on November 17–18, 2025, on the theme of cross-disciplinary medical research.

Professor Sten Linnarsson, Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded a distinguished professor grant by the Swedish Research Council totalling just over SEK 30 million for the period 2026–2033.

Older adults with reduced kidney function show higher levels of Alzheimer’s-related biomarkers in the blood, but are not more likely to develop dementia, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet.

The Karolinska Institutet (KI) and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) hosted their annual joint symposium in Stockholm on October 21–22, 2025, bringing together leading experts to strengthen high-level research collaboration.

A new study shows that visual and tactile impressions that are related to our own body are prioritised for reaching conscious awareness. This helps us understand how we develop the feeling that the body is our own – through the brain’s integration of what we see and what we feel.

One of the promising young researchers receiving Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s basic research grant this year is Camilla Engblom at the Department of Medicine, Solna. She will use the funding to study a piece of the puzzle that could help develop more precise and personalized treatments for cancer and inflammatory bowel disease.

A new study shows that children born preterm who are later diagnosed with autism often present with more extensive support needs and a higher number of co-occurring conditions than autistic children born at full term. Surprisingly, however, the researchers found no differences in genetic variants across the genome, nor in specific genes already linked to autism, between the groups – a result that contradicted their initial hypothesis.

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The Swedish Parliament has now decided on the new high-cost protection special dental care reimbursement – also known as ten-tooth care. It will come into effect on 1 January 2026.

1,000 written exams – that is how many were coordinated by the Examination service in KI's shared examination halls in 2025.

Artificial Intelligence that detects breast cancer, enables medical imaging in low-resource countries and that identifies the patients who require advanced treatment even at the point of diagnosis – these are just a few examples of AI research at Karolinska Institutet that is impacting an entire world. Parts of this work were presented during the conference AI@KI, Advances in Artificial Intelligence at Karolinska Institutet, on 2 December.

From 1 January, no storage of lithium-ion batteries or electric bicycles with batteries is permitted anywhere on KI's premises. This is due to the increased risk of fire.