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2018 - Cerebrospinal fluid flow and its role in Alzheimer's disease
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the accumulation of toxic molecules, often in the form of proteinaceous waste. The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which is mainly produced...
2018 - Cell therapy of malignant melanoma with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and Dendrit cell vaccine - Rolf Kiessling - Karolinska Institutet
The aim of the project is to develop a new immunotherapy approach for the treatment of malignant melanoma, a malignant skin cancer. Immunotherapy is based on...
2018 – Torsten Söderberg’s Academy Professorship in Medicine 2019 – Göran K. Hansson – Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Torsten Söderberg Foundation currently funds seven academic professorships in medicine at a level of 2 million Swedish kronor per year for five years....
2018 - The role of astrocytes in the spread of amyloid-beta pathology - Anna Erlandsson - Uppsala University, Sweden
The overall aim of the project is to investigate how the brain's support cells, the astrocytes, contribute to Alzheimer's disease and how...
2018 - Inflammatory complications in preterm infants - Petter Brodin - Karolinska Institutet
Newborn babies have immature immune systems and an increased risk of infections, especially those born prematurely. Very preterm babies are also at risk of...
2018 - New treatments for infections based on pathogenic bacteria's strategies to escape the complement system - Anna Blom - Lund University
Our study focuses on clinically important bacterial pathogens, for which the ever-increasing antibiotic resistance requires new treatment options. Each successful pathogen...
2018 - Shadow banking in Sweden part 2 - experiences from the early 20th century - Axel Hagberg - Stockholm School of Economics, EMFF
The project aims to highlight the Swedish issuing company era and see it in a new light. The intense period of...
2018 - Innovation and institutional change in Swedish commodity trade 1920-2010 - Fredrik Sandgren - Uppsala University, Sweden
The project will analyze the transformation of the Swedish commodity trade during the 20th century. The ultimate aim is to write a synthesis of the Swedish...
2018 - Graduate School of Accounting - FIRE - Torkel Strömsten - Stockholm School of Economics, SiR
The Graduate School of Accounting (FIRE) was initiated in 2015 as a response to the shortage of accounting researchers and teachers...
2018 - Management of complex business relationships - Henrik Agndal - Gothenburg School of Economics
One way to understand complex business relationships is to consider them as consisting of more or less interconnected arenas where companies...
2018 - Fashion, luxury, credit and trust - Klas Nyberg - Stockholm University
The project "Fashion, Luxury, Credit and Trust. From early modern to modern bankruptcies" was granted funding in 2017 to analyze the importance of the bankruptcy...
2018 - Companies and employees in a changing labor market - Joacim Tåg - Näringslivsforskning Institute
In recent decades, the Swedish labor market has undergone extensive structural changes as a result of the technological developments that have driven...
