2019 - Rituximab: Immunotherapy for treatment-resistant severe mental illness. Pilot and multicenter study - Susanne Bejerot - Örebro University Hospital

Schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affect ~3% of the population. The illnesses often start in adolescence. About 1/3 of patients are treatment resistant, i.e. ....

2019 - New potential drugs for Alzheimer's disease - Peter Nilsson - Linköping University

Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, comprise some of our biggest health scourges, affecting millions of people worldwide. Despite significant efforts...

2018 - Photoactivated antimicrobial nanocoatings on medical devices - Georgios Sotiriou - Karolinska Institutet

2018 - A new mechanism for body weight regulation - Claes Ohlsson - University of Gothenburg

Obesity is a growing public health problem worldwide with more than one billion overweight and 300 million obese people according to WHO....

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...

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...