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2012 - Rethinking Beta in Asset Management - Anders Anderson - Swedish Institute for Financial Research
The Swedish Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) has for nine years successfully organized an annual conference on various themes in financial...
2012 - Mobile phones, service innovations and the shaping of new markets - Per Andersson - Stockholm School of Economics
Mobile phones are playing an increasingly central role in people's personal and professional lives. At the same time, the development of new mobile services has also...
2012 - Support for the maintenance and development of an environment for trade-relevant research - Björn Axelsson - Stockholm School of Economics
Continued support for a research environment with trade-relevant research at the Stockholm School of Economics. This support has varied over time but during...
2012 - TGF-β, RAPA and IL23 Dependent Regulatory Circuits in Human TH17 Cells and Induced Tregulatory Cells - Jesper Tegnér - Karolinska Institutet
Patient-oriented research has clearly shown that the risk of contracting another disease increases when the patient already has one...
2012 - How genes and environment affect insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle in diabetes - 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...
2012 - Consumer credit in Gothenburg and Stockholm 1650-1870 - Lili-Ann Aldman
The key for both trade and production is that there are consumers willing to buy their goods and services....
2012 - Development of more effective drugs for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression - Torgny Svensson - Karolinska Institutet
The project aims to develop new and improved medicines for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, according to EU estimates some of...
2012 - Studies of a new cytomegalovirus (CMV) for tumorigenesis, new treatment strategies in sight? - Cecilia Söderberg Nauclér - Karolinska Institutet
New evidence suggests that a virus, cytomeglaovirus (CMV), can be detected in several different tumors such as brain tumors, neuroblastoma, breast, intestinal...
2012 - Repair of damaged spinal cord with peripheral nerve grafts and transplantation of stem/progenitor cells - Mikael Svensson - Karolinska Institutet
The aim of this project is to link basic research to clinical application that benefits patients with neurological injuries. Our group has...
2012 - Investigation of new clinical potential of the monoamine stabilizing agent OSU6162 - Elisabeth Nordquist-Brandt - Sahlgrenska University Hospital
OSU6162 is a drug developed by Professor Arvid Carlsson. The pharmacological action has been characterized as dopamine- and serotonin-stabilizing with...
2012 - Funding for the establishment of an additional academic professorship in medicine - Staffan Normark - Kungl. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Torsten Söderberg Foundation and the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation currently fund five research professorships in medicine, and the Torsten Söderberg Foundation itself funds one...
2012 - Evaluation of the dopamine stabilizer OSU6162 as a new drug for the treatment of alcohol dependence - Pia Steensland - Karolinska Institutet
Alcohol dependence is classified as a disease - but there is no effective treatment. The need for new medicines is great. We have the...
