2017 - Identification of metabolically important factors secreted by muscles during exercise - Juleen Zierath - Karolinska Institutet

Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body's tissues develop a strong resistance to the hormone insulin and also a reduced production of...

2017 - Unknown epitopes and cause of disease - Mats Wahlgren - Karolinska Institutet

Here we propose to create an intelligent set of randomly selected "disease structures" (peptides) to identify mainly tertiary and quaternary epitopes...

2017 - Astrocytes - new target for CNS regeneration in stroke and ALS - Milos Pekny - University of Gothenburg

During human ageing and in diseases and injuries affecting the brain and spinal cord, such as stroke and ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), the...

2017 - Molecular mechanisms and new treatment strategies of type 2 diabetes - Margit Mahlapuu - University of Gothenburg

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is increasing dramatically and T2D has become one of the major global health threats. Intensive...

2017 - Development of antibody-based immunotherapy for Parkinson's disease - Martin Ingelsson - Uppsala University, Sweden

In Parkinson's disease, alpha-synuclein accumulates in the neurons of the brain and intermediate forms of this protein, called oligomers, are particularly harmful. We...

2017 - The brain's galanin and substance P systems are altered in depression: Opening for new treatment - Tomas Hökfelt - Karolinska Institutet

Depression is a life-threatening (suicide), common and costly disease (affecting 300 million people worldwide, costing an unimaginable €380 billion in...

2017 – Torsten Söderberg’s Academy Professorship in Medicine 2018 – Göran K. Hansson – Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Torsten Söderberg Foundation currently funds six academic professorships in medicine (the most recent of which is currently being filled) at a level of 2 million...

2017 - Streptococcal modification of antibody glycosylation in severe infections - Mattias Collin - Lund University

Most proteins in our immune system are glycoproteins, with carbohydrates (glycans) influencing their function. Antibodies are central to our acquired immune system...

2017 - Olaus Magnus "Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus", original edition 1555 - Bo Ralph - Swedish Academy

2017 - Around the Roman Empire in 480 days. Yearbook of the Swedish Humanities Federation 2018 - Olle Josephsson - Swedish Humanities Federation

The book Around the Roman Empire in 480 Days is laid out as a fictional journey through virtually the entire Roman Empire. The aim...

2017 - Professor Axel Boëthius, Gothenburg and (the study of) Antiquity - Ulf R. Hansson - Swedish Institute in Rome

The application concerns a pilot study on the classical archaeologist Axel Boëthius (1889-1969) who was one of the main actors in the establishment of the study of antiquity...

2017 - From special to general artificial intelligence - Claes Strannegård - Chalmers University of Technology

Alan Turing laid the foundations of the modern computer in the 1930s, building machines that could crack secret codes and play...