https://ki.se RSS News Listing https://news.ki.se/bjorn-reinius-and-joyce-noble-awarded-the-prize-for-innovation-and-utilisation-2025 Björn Reinius and Joyce Noble have developed a synthetic protection for RNA molecules that is stable and can be stored at room temperature. Their innovation simplifies aspects of biomedical research and enables new analytical methods. They are now awarded the 2025 Prize for innovation and utilisation for their work. Mon, 12 May 2025 15:23:52 +0200 https://news.ki.se/the-department-of-fyfa-turns-75 The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology celebrated 75 years since its royal inauguration on the Solna campus during 2024. But FyFa's history goes further back than that - and looks forward to many years of community and outstanding research and teaching. On 23 April, the department celebrates with a full day of lectures and a Dragons’ Den. Fri, 09 May 2025 11:05:59 +0200 https://news.ki.se/make-your-event-part-of-nobel-calling-week-2025 Are you planning an event for autumn 2025 being aimed at the public? Schedule it between 3 to 13 October and be a part of Nobel Calling Stockholm! A week that offers inspiring events and educational meetings in the spirit of knowledge. Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:01:35 +0200 https://news.ki.se/announcement-of-kis-prize-for-innovation-and-utilization-2025 The prize recognizes researchers/research students who have distinguished themselves through outstanding utilization of research results that have led to innovation. Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:30:08 +0100 https://news.ki.se/vinnova-renews-support-for-kis-business-incubator KI Innovations – the company that helps researchers at Karolinska Institutet commercialise their discoveries – is to receive SEK 29 million from Vinnova (the Swedish governmental agency for innovation systems) for 2025 to 2029. “It’s proof of the quality of our business and the startups that we work with,” says Johan Weigelt, CEO of KI Innovations and KI Holding AB. Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:58:03 +0100 https://news.ki.se/the-knut-and-alice-wallenberg-foundation-supports-life-science-research-at-ki Ten innovation projects in life sciences have received grants within the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation's and SciLifeLab's Proof-of-Concept Program. Four of the projects are run by researchers at Karolinska Institutet. The Proof-of-Concept Program aims to bridge the gap from academic research to innovations in the life sciences. Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:46:26 +0100 https://news.ki.se/cardiac-arrest-app-developers-receive-the-prize-for-innovation-and-utilization-2024 Jacob Hollenberg, Mattias Ringh and Leif Svensson, at the Department of Clinical Research and Education, Södersjukhuset at Karolinska Institutet, are awarded for using innovative technology to develop an outstanding app and method, which increases the chance of survival for people who have suffered a cardiac arrest . Tue, 21 May 2024 08:18:29 +0200 https://news.ki.se/innovative-digital-tool-enables-monitoring-of-lung-function-over-time-0 Height and weight charts have been used for decades to monitor child development. A paper in The Lancet now presents a new application that enables healthcare professionals to keep a regular check on the development of one of the body’s most vital organs – the lungs. Lung Function Tracker is the product of an international collaboration involving researchers at KI, the University of Barcelona, Spain, the Imperial College London, the UK, and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:45:06 +0100 https://news.ki.se/ki-researcher-max-gordon-awarded-for-his-work-in-ai Max Gordon, Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, and Chief Physician at Danderyd Hospital, is awarded for his research on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The Swedish AI of the Year award (Årets AI svensk) is presented to a person who has contributed to the development and visibility of Swedish AI. Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:58:38 +0200 https://news.ki.se/samer-yammine-best-male-entrepreneurship-educator-of-the-year Congratulations to Samer Yammine at the Department of learning, informatics, management and ethics (LIME), who received the award "Male entrepreneurship educator of the year", an award included in The Triple E Awards! Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:47:48 +0200 https://news.ki.se/how-ki-students-want-to-get-young-people-moving Movement and physical activity were in focus when the KI Impact Challenge event was arranged for the first time after the pandemic. About 45 students from Karolinska Institutet were tasked to come up with what is needed to make young people become more physically active. To help them, they had 30 high school students and the various steps in design thinking, a systematic problem-solving method. Wed, 24 May 2023 09:40:29 +0200 https://news.ki.se/new-method-reveals-bacterial-reaction-to-antibiotics-in-five-minutes Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a molecular method able to detect whether or not bacteria respond to antibiotics within minutes. The findings are presented in the journal Nature Microbiology and the researchers now hope to develop a simple test for doctors to use. Mon, 22 May 2023 17:00:04 +0200 https://news.ki.se/ube-member-samer-yammine-among-top-five-for-international-teaching-award Samer Yammine at the Department of learning, informatics, management and ethics, LIME, is one of the top five finalists for the award 'Male entrepreneurship educator of the year' by Triple E Awards. Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:18:13 +0100 https://news.ki.se/new-co-working-environment-opens-at-campus-flemingsberg A Working Lab is expanding its activity with a new hub for co-working and shared laboratory environments at Alfred Nobels Allé 10, which is scheduled to open in the spring of 2022. Students, researchers and university employees will be able to meet here and find ways to collaborate and innovate within the field of life science. Tue, 08 Feb 2022 12:28:47 +0100 https://news.ki.se/they-are-awarded-erc-proof-of-concept-grants Three research group leaders at Karolinska Institutet receive European Research Council Proof of Concept (ERC PoC) 2022 grants, which are awarded to researchers who already have funding from the ERC and now wish to develop the innovative potential of their discoveries. Projects funded at KI include working towards commercialisation of a new sequencing method and scaling up production of artificial spider-silk textiles. Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:57:02 +0100 https://news.ki.se/tomorrows-ct-scanner-soon-to-be-introduced-in-swedish-healthcare It’s described as a technological advance in computed tomography and the hope is that this imaging technique will eventually become hospital standard. At the end of October, a new type of CT scanner will be unveiled in MedTechLabs, an interdisciplinary centre set up by Karolinska Institutet (KI), the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Region Stockholm. KI professor Staffan Holmin is one of the researchers behind the initiative. Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:05:56 +0200 https://news.ki.se/christina-neofytou-one-of-18-researchers-participating-at-the-stockholm-explorative-talks-2021 Academics from all 18 higher education institutions in Stockholm have been invited to discuss future global challenges from new perspectives, extending past the traditional academic boundaries at the Stockholm Explorative Talks on 23 september 2021 at the Royal College of Music (KMH) in Stockholm. Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:24:29 +0200 https://news.ki.se/new-eu-innovation-action-grant-for-research-project-covid-x The Unit for Bioentrepreneurship (UBE) and the Health Informatics Centre (HIC) at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, have been granted an EU Innovation Action Grant for the project COVID-X, which aims to contribute to the public health preparedness and response in the context of the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 and to ensure the availability of critical technologies and tools. Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:48:21 +0200 https://news.ki.se/ki-adopting-a-new-information-management-strategy Karolinska Institutet's information management strategy was developed in Spring 2019 and is part of Strategy 2030. The aim is to create concrete, common and established ways forward for the management of information and data at Karolinska Institutet. Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:00:00 +0200 https://news.ki.se/karolinska-institutets-holding-company-expands-board KI Holding and its subsidiary KI Innovations have now combed forces by creating a common board, to which they have added three new members and a new chairperson. Fri, 15 May 2020 11:30:23 +0200 https://news.ki.se/launch-of-the-learning-arena-utveckla-framtidens-utveckling-develop-future-development The 24-25th of March 2020 is the starting point of the new learning arena “Develop future development” aiming to increase organizational competence and capacity for multilevel development in complex organizational systems. Mon, 09 Mar 2020 07:37:22 +0100 https://news.ki.se/from-zero-to-prototype-in-three-hours Nearly 90 students participated in this year's edition of the EIT Health Innovation Day, which was held at the Karolinska Institutet on November 15. The task was to develop a product that solves a problem for a patient with multiple sclerosis. Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:55:52 +0100 https://news.ki.se/a-new-method-for-finding-matches-among-the-various-components-of-ontologies-in-healthcare-in-order-to-facilitate-semantic-interoperability Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and the University of Pireus have presented a new method for finding matches among the various components of ontologies in healthcare in order to facilitate semantic interoperability. The study is published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics. Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:57:49 +0200 https://news.ki.se/25-years-of-collaboration-between-ki-and-mayo-clinic The partnership between KI and the Mayo Clinic in the US is celebrating its 25th year. Since inception, the collaboration has supported a great many successful research projects and innovations. Sophie Erhardt has recently been appointed as KI’s academic coordinator for the collaborative platform. Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:38:11 +0200 https://news.ki.se/portrait-of-researchers-and-their-innovations-in-a-new-brochure Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:58:17 +0200 https://news.ki.se/smartphone-app-prevents-disease-outbreaks-in-low-resource-settings Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:01:00 +0200 https://news.ki.se/research-and-innovation-the-topic-for-ki-visit-by-chinas-minister-of-science-and-technology Fri, 01 Sep 2017 09:52:01 +0200 https://news.ki.se/ki-researchers-to-share-100-million-sek-for-industrial-research Wed, 08 Feb 2017 15:24:51 +0100 https://news.ki.se/four-projects-granted-funding-for-innovative-research Four researchers at KI will receive grants from Johnson & Johnson Innovation, committed up to the next 2–3 years. The purpose is to identify and support high quality, innovative research that has the potential to provide new healthcare solutions. Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:25:27 +0100 https://news.ki.se/a-new-method-simplifies-blood-biomarker-discovery-and-analysis Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:00:00 +0200 https://news.ki.se/tore-curstedts-curosurf-helped-millions-of-preterm-babies In the spring of 2016, KI researcher Tore Curstedt was nominated for a Lifetime Achievement Award by the European Patent Office for having devoted his life to Curosurf, a drug that has helped to activate the lungs of millions of preterm babies. Thu, 09 Jun 2016 17:09:24 +0200 https://news.ki.se/new-nanoparticle-technology-to-decipher-structure-and-function-of-membrane-proteins Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:29:53 +0100 https://news.ki.se/clarity-technique-now-at-ki Karl Deisseroth is a professor at Stanford, where his group has developed two spectacular scientific techniques – optogenetics and Clarity. He has also been working since 2013 at Karolinska Institutet, which has just invested in a Clarity facility. 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