2018-01-24
Christer Betsholtz is awarded the Swiss Louis-Jeantet prize for his research on how blood vessels are formed and function.
The prize is for 700 000 Swiss Franc and is awarded by the Louis-Jeantet foundation, which annually allocates 4.2 million Franc to promote biomedical research. This year’s second prize-winner is Antonio Lanzavecchia, head of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, Switzerland. The prizes will be presented at an award ceremony in Geneva on 25 April.
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IGP researchers get positions funded by the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation 2019-04-01
The Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation has awarded grants for a four-year researcher position for Yumeng Mao and a two-year postdoc position for Mohanraj Ramachandran. |
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Senior Clinical Investigator Award to Ingrid Glimelius and Gustav Ullenhag 2019-03-29
The Swedish Cancer Society’s grant Senior Clinical Investigator Award has this year been granted Ingrid Glimelius and Gustav Ullenhag at IGP. |
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2019-03-29
Lena Claesson-Welsh and Christer Betsholtz have been awarded “bridging grants” of SEK 6 million and SEK 3 million respectively from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. |
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Göran Gustafsson prize to Xingqi Chen 2019-03-26
IGP researcher Xingqi Chen has been awarded a Göran Gustafsson Prize for young researchers. |
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Taija Mäkinen selected as Wallenberg Scholar 2019-03-25
Knut och Alice Wallenberg Foundation has decided to select Taija Mäkinen as Wallenberg Scholar. The award includes funding of SEK 18 million for five years. |
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Funding for developing diagnosis method for prostate cancer 2019-01-28
The support initiative Verification for collaboration at Uppsala University has granted funding to Cecilia Lindskog Bergström for development of an AI method for more accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer. The project is a collaboration with the company ContextVision. |
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Marika Nestor receives support for research on thyroid cancer 2019-01-21
The Drug Discovery and Development Platform at SciLifeLab has granted support to Marika Nestor for the development of radioimmunotherapy against anaplastic thyroid cancer. |
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Uppsala Genome Center part of major grant for forest genetic research 2019-01-16
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation invests several million SEK over a ten-year period in research on tree genes, forest genetics and forest biotechnology. The project is a collaboration between SLU and SciLifeLab and Uppsala Genome Center at IGP participates in the characterisation of the spruce and pine tree genomes. |
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Research grant from the Sjöberg Foundation to IGP researchers 2019-01-14
Olle Korsgren has together with Di Yu and Magnus Essand at IGP, and Matthias Löhr at LI, been awarded a two-year grant from the Sjöberg Foundation. |
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Elisabetta Dejana awarded the INSERM international prize 2019-01-09
At a ceremony in Paris on 11 December, Elisabetta Dejana was awarded a gold medal for her outstanding research career, spanning Italy, Sweden and France. |
