Two junior researchers at OnkPat receives funding for their positions from the Swedish Cancer Society

Christofer Juhlin receives funding for six years at part time 50% via the Junior Clinical Investigator Award from the Swedish Cancer Society. The project is entitled ”Utilization of whole-genome sequencing to improve diagnosis, prognostication and treatment of thyroid cancer”.

In addition, Nathaniel Vacanti's post doc position will be funded for three years. He works in Janne Lehtiö’s research group and the project is entitled ”Expanding therapeutic cohorts and co-targeting metabolism in mitogen driven tumors”.

The Swedish national research school in clinical and translational cancer research, NatiOn, also gets funding from the Swedish Cancer Society.