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Higher risk of death from skin cancer among men living alone
Bill Gates to visit Karolinska Institutet - live broadcasting
Global Health
Researchers create atlas over gene usage in all human cell types
Oman’s education minister to visit Karolinska Institutet
Collaboration
Karolinska Institutet’s new honorary doctors
Familial link between leadership and bipolar disorder
Psychiatric disorders, Psychiatry
New study links irritable bowel syndrome to defective gene and heart disease
Gastrointestinal diseases
New approach makes cancer cells explode
KI-researchers receive Young Investigator Grant
KI-researchers Jorge Ruas and Ana Teixeira receive a Human Frontiers Science Program Young Investigator Award.
Division of KI Alzheimer Research Center has a new name: Division of Neurogeriatrics
KI researchers awarded Honorary Doctor titles
Publication in NEJM: Radical prostatectomy or watchful waiting in early prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer
Flemingsberg Campus expanding
New appointed Associate professor: Elisabeth Rydwik
Two new Associate Professors at NVS: Erika Franzén and Weilu Xu
New cellular mechanism represses immune reaction in type I-diabetes
Immunology
Warfarin also beneficial in atrial fibrillation patients with kidney disease
New findings on neurogenesis in the spinal cord
Genetics, Neurobiology
Warfarin also beneficial in atrial fibrillation patients with kidney disease
Urology
Kick-off on the 3rd of March for the new Centre for Alzheimer Research
New discovery solves problem of anti-inflammatory substance
Inflammation (en)
New method identifies heart attacks
Julian Walfridsson - new Equal opportunity coordinator
Looking to show the strengths of the student association
Student (en), Student union
Early atherosclerotic plaques in the vessel wall regress completely when cholesterol levels are lowered
Genetics
Moving snapshots give new insight on cell division
New discovery paves the way for medicine for people with hearing disabilities
Pharmacology
Interview, Kenneth Chien
Two new Chairs for the Working environment group
Publication in JAMA Psych: Children with old fathers more likely to have psychiatric disorder
Psychiatric disorders
Winner of Best Grand Round presentation
Surgery offers better survival rate in prostate cancer
Prostate cancer, Surgery
Children with old fathers more likely to have psychiatric disorder
Genetics, Psychiatric disorders
Better nurse staffing and education reduces risk of patient mortality after common surgery
Medical management, Nursing
Video from The Canadian Institute of Health
New neurons in diseased brain region
Neurodegenerative diseases, Neurosciences
After 10 years of preparation - now the method is tested on patients with bone marrow cancer
The futures research leaders
Division of Alzheimer Neurobiology Center has a new name: Division of Translational Alzheimer Neurobiology.
New drug candidate starves dormant cancer cells
Pharmacology
Oxygen-sensitive protein possible weapon against cancer
Researchers from Karolinska Institutet present a new protein mechanism in an article in PNAS that may help to improve blood flow in a tissue in the event of low oxygen levels for example following a stroke. The hope now is that these new findings can be used conversely in the development of anti-cancer medicines.
The X-jobs at the medical programme evaluated as very high quality
The career ladder for researchers a welcomed initiative
New student flats being planned on campus Solna
Epigenetic regulation required to ensure correct number of chromosomes
New edition of Medical Science
Major research project on Hantavirus
Infectious Disease Medicine
Impaired recovery from inflammation linked to Alzheimer's
Inflammation (en)
Editorial in BMJ: Too much mammography
Three doses of HPV vaccine recommended against genital warts
Gynaecology, Immunology, Infectious Disease Medicine, Virology