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2015 - Epigenomic control and molecular characterization of insulin resistance 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...
2015 - Personalized specific cell therapy for patients with glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer - Markus Maeurer - Karolinska Institutet
Many studies show that T cells infiltrating tumor tissue have the ability to specifically recognize tumor cells. The treatment of cancer patients, using...
2014 - Why Chronic Kidney Disease is a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease - Anita Aperia - Karolinska Institutet
Chronic kidney disease is common but often underdiagnosed. Around 10% of the population is estimated to have some form of kidney damage. Cardiovascular diseases are...
2014 - Translational glycoimmunology - from pathogens to drugs - Mattias Collin - Lund University
About half of all our proteins are decorated with carbohydrate structures. These give proteins essential properties such as solubility, half-life, protection against...
2014 – Torsten Söderberg’s professorship at the Academy of Medicine 2015 – Staffan Normark – Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Chair shall promote internationally leading research in the field of medicine by enabling the holder to devote full-time time to the...
2014 - Can we cure peanut allergy with oral immunotherapy and anti-IgE antibodies? - Caroline Nilsson - Karolinska Institutet
Severe food allergy (FA) is more common than severe asthma. Many people with MA have a great fear of accidentally ingesting...
2014 - Prevention of the metabolic syndrome and ectopic fat - Ulf Smith - University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy
The project is focused on the obesity-related complications; Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and Metabolic Syndrome (MS). Individual changes in the adipose tissue are linked...
2014 - The role of mast cells in cancer - Gunnar Pejler - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Mast cells are particularly notorious for their harmful effects on allergies, but much research suggests that mast cells...
2014 - Mesenchymal stem cells to stop type 1 diabetes development - Per-Ola Carlsson - Uppsala University, Sweden
Type 1 diabetes is the most common chronic disease in children for which there is no cure. At the onset of type 1 diabetes...
2014 - Development of new cell therapies for stroke - Zaal Kokaia - Lund University
Every year, 30 000 people suffer a stroke in Sweden. Stroke is the most common cause of chronic disability among adults;...
2014 - Autism in girls and women - brain function and symptoms - Christopher Gillberg - University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy
Autism and other early-onset developmental disorders (such as ADHD) (now often grouped together under the title ESSENCE for Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental...
2014 - HMGB1, inflammation and cognitive function after severe sepsis - Peter Sackey - Karolinska Institutet
Every year, 40,000 patients are treated in Swedish intensive care units (ICUs). More than 35% of all ICU patients suffer from blood poisoning (sepsis), with...
