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Swedish scientists show the impact of approved drugs on human proteins
Pharmacology, Proteomics
KI receives 100 million for recruitment of top international scientist
Environment drives human immune variation more than genes
Immunology, Twin research
Supervisors play a crucial role in the success of medical students' degree projects
Attempted suicide among young people can be reduced by 50 percent
Psychiatric disorders, Suicide Research
New Secretary for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel prize
Publication in Nature Biotechnology: GUIDE-seq enables genome-wide profiling of off-target cleavage by CRISPR-Cas nucleases.
Genetics
Physical activity improves survival for men with localized prostate cancer
Physical activity, Prostate cancer
CfGM implements sex and gender aspects in medical curriculum
Student (en)
Research grant from the Åhlén foundation to André Fisahn at NVS
Karolinska Institutet is recruiting a Deputy Vice-Chancellor for International Affairs
International
Publication in Science: Smoking is associated with mosaic loss of chromosome Y.
Genetics
Publication in PLOS Genet: Natural CMT2 Variation Is Associated With Genome-Wide Methylation Changes and Temperature Seasonality
Genetics
Website statistics can predict emergency room visit volumes
Emergency medicine
MTC Awards for Employee of the Year, Scientific Papers of the Year and the Pedagogical Prize 2014
Startup Life Science– the training program that jumpstarts your business idea
Innovation
Asthma Research in organisms without lungs
Research grants from Alzheimerfonden to NVS
Grant
Official Opening of the new BZ Laboratory
Student (en)
IMPROvED: Preventing preeclampsia from day zero
Biobank, Prevention (en)
Eric Asaba is new acting head of the Division of Occupational Therapy
Swede of the Year Johan von Schreeb started the Ebola training course
Emergency medicine, Global Health
Hexagonal patterns in Aula Medica foyer celebrate Nobel lectures
Nobel prize
Long-term endurance training impacts muscle epigenetics
Epigenetics, Physical activity
Per Hall awarded a framework grant in clinical therapy research
Breast cancer, Epidemiology
Per Hall new faculty representative to KI’s board of research
Epidemiology
Swedish healthcare Quality Registers: Review paper and international meeting
Epidemiology, Register-based research
Three NVS coworkers were elected new faculty representatives to KI internal boards
The election is over – at least for KI
Management
Nine young researchers awarded Wallenberg Academy Fellows at Karolinska Institutet
Funding, Grant
Researchers at CIM and HERM appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows
KI students highly commended for undergraduate paper
Student (en)
Katarina Bälter awarded funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Epidemiology, Nutrition (en)
Miia Kivipelto and Jonas Fuxe awarded ”Best PI at KI”
Increased infant mortality rates among children of overweight women
Neonatology, Obesity and overweight, Pediatrics, Public Health
MEB Team won the Alzheimer’s Disease Big Data Dream Challenge 2014
Alzheimer's disease, Biostatistics
Causal link between antibiotics and childhood asthma dismissed
Asthma, Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology
Another of this year’s Nobel prizes linked to KI
Nobel prize, SciLifeLab
No fears: inNOV(2K)ation belongs to the brave
Career, Innovation, International, Student (en)
Contagious ideas on World AIDS Day
Global Health, HIV, Infectious Disease Medicine
StratNeuro grant to André Fisahn at the Center for Alzheimer research
Two researchers at Karolinska Institutet have received a grant of 1 MSEK from the Strategic Program in Neuroscience (StratNeuro) at Karolinska Institutet for the period 2015-2016.
Grant
André Fisahn was invited to join FP7 project
Katarina Bälter granted funding from Formas
Epidemiology, Nutrition (en)
Publication in JNCI: Volumetric mammographic density: heritability and association with breast cancer susceptibility Loci
Breast cancer, Genetics
Secretagogin triggers stress process in the brain
Neurobiology, Psychiatric disorders
2014 Nobel prize winners: “It was a wonderful moment“
Clinical Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Nobel prize
Two studies identify pre-cancerous state in the blood
Epidemiology, Hematology
Professor Bob Harris – with an award and a sword
Dorota Religa has been appointed Associate professor in geriatrics
Students eat pizza with Vice-Chancellor
Management, Student (en)