The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) has decided on grant applications within Medicine and Health 2024. Researchers at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics were granted over 50 Mkr together.
- Molly Stevens (medicine), Development of “cartilage-on-a-chip models” to study osteoarthritis and perform therapeutic tests, 2 142 857 SEK
- Molly Stevens (Science/engineering), Construction of a tolerogenic synthetic microenvironment (niche) for in situ tolerogenic dendritic cell induction as autoimmune therapy, 5 025 000 SEK
- Florian Rosenberger , Proteomics with spatial resolution for studies of metabolic disorders, 6 000 000 SEK
- Bjørt Kragesteen , Deciphering the molecular mechanisms behind human evolutionary adaptation to hypoxia, 5 600 000 SEK
- Björn Högberg , How does regulation of non-specific membrane proteins work?, 10 000 000 SEK
- Rikard Holmdahl , Finding the cause of rheumatoid arthritis by using humanized mouse models with the most important polymorphic alleles of HLA-DR and NCF1, 10 000 000 SEK
- Jens Hjerling-Leffler , Biological principles behind schizophrenia: adolescent specification of cell types in the prefrontal cortex, 5 600 000 SEK
- Karl Carlstrom , BEAM-MS – How epigenetics in brain cells are regulated by metabolites, 6 000 000 SEK
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