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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...
2012 - Assessment of far-reaching spread of Parkinson's pathology in Parkinson's disease - Jia-Yi Li - Lund University
Recently, we have shown that transplanted fetal dopamine-producing neurons develop a so-called Lewy pathology more than 10 years after surgery in...
2012 - Development of a vaccine against herpes simplex virus type 2 infection - Jan-Åke Liljeqvist - Sahlgrenska Academy
There is a great need for a vaccine against herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection. Primarily because HSV-2...
2012 - The importance of diet and oral flora for the cardiovascular system and metabolism - Jon Lundberg - Karolinska Institutet
Nitric oxide (NO) is a neurotransmitter produced in the body by specific enzymes, which contributes to a healthy cardiovascular system...
2012 - Mechanisms of BRICHOS prevention of protein aggregation and treatment potential in Alzheimer's disease - Jan Johansson - Karolinska Institutet
Alzheimer's disease is the most common dementia, causing impairment of memory, attention, and language due to the loss of nerve cells and the loss of...
2012 - Bacteria-host interplay during disease progression - Ann-Beth Jonsson - Stockholm University
Infectious diseases kill many millions of people every year. This project maps how bacteria that cause meningitis, sepsis and cancer interact with the...
2012 - Mechanisms of amyloid-induced memory impairment and neurodegeneration - Petronella Kettunen - Sahlgrenska Academy
We have developed the first functional zebrafish model of memory loss in Alzheimer's disease (AD). These 'demented' fish have lost their ability...
2012 - How does the natural immune system work in the placenta and in newborns during a viral infection? - Kristina Eriksson - Sahlgrenska Academy
Newborn babies are highly susceptible to infection because their immune systems do not function as well as those of older children and...
2012 - Defects in the inner lining of the colon in ulcerative colitis - Gunnar C. Hansson - Sahlgrenska Academy
Our hypothesis, contrary to the prevailing models, is that the disease ulcerative colitis is due to defects in the inner mucosal layer of the colon that...
2012 - Respiration and cognition after anesthesia and surgery - Lars Ingvar Eriksson - Karolinska Institutet
The project describes the mechanisms behind serious complications in respiratory and brain functions after anesthesia, and how we create new treatments in the future...
2012 - Strategies developed by pathogenic bacteria to outsmart the human complement system - Anna Blom - Lund University
Infectious diseases are a global problem and about one third of all deaths are related to infections. Despite the development of...
