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25 Apr 2023
Six projects in epidemiology will get seed funding
Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support six projects with seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan...
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9 Feb 2023
Call for proposals: Seed funding for preparing application and research plan writing in the research area Epidemiology
Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through a call for project seeding funding that will cover salary costs for...
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24 Nov 2022
Four new postdoctoral positions within EpiHealth's Uppsala node
In November 2022, the EpiHealth Steering Group decided on four grants for postdoctoral positions over two years. Read about the Uppsala researchers who receive grants and what rese...
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13 Sep 2022
The 5th Swedish Meeting for Cohort Studies
8-9 September 2022 there was the yearly meeting, this year taking place in Lund.
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5 Jun 2022
Meet our new vice coordinator of EpiHealth, Christel Nielsen
Associate professor Christel Nielsen who works at the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Lund University has been appointed vice coordinator of the strategic re...
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7 May 2022
I put together a lifelong puzzle in epigenetics
Professor Charlotte Ling is doing research within the field of epigenetics to understand changes in the expression of genes based on our environment and lifestyle and how these cha...
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1 Apr 2022
Urgent need for early detection of ovarian cancer with cutting-edge technologies
Ovarian cancer (OC) is usually detected at late clinical stages and urgent extensive surgery is crucial for survival. Associate professor Päivi Kannisto is using cutting-edge techn...
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1 Mar 2022
Patients with low socioeconomic status experience more symptoms before and after surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) – a compressed median nerve in the wrist
Although surgery is performed with a simple procedure that is performed under local anesthesia, new research by post doc Malin Zimmerman at Lund University shows that socioeconomic...
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2 Feb 2022
Cross-linkage and analysis of large registry-based databases help us conduct research on breathlessness
Associate professor Magnus Ekström is using cross-linked databases to develop a new standard method that can measure the severity of breathlessness in the population and find treat...
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20 Jan 2022
Future research methods can benefit from the use of apps that include the patients´ perspectives on their own health
Professor Johan Sundström has contributed to the development of new apps which makes it possible to extract research data from patients´ perspectives on their own health and allows...
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6 Dec 2021
New national medical screening database helps us conduct research on Death by Suicide
Professor Åsa Westrin manages a big national medical screening database to conduct research on Death by Suicide in the Swedish population. The database helps her extract research d...
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27 Oct 2021
AI will help us detect future pandemics
We have lived with the corona pandemic for a long time, both in Sweden and internationally. In a new collaborative project, researchers want to use AI methods, registers and mobile...
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5 Oct 2021
In the EpiHealth cohort we find genes for diabetes
Professor Lars Lind uses the EpiHealth cohort to investigate why people with diabetes have a higher risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases and how genetic factors ...
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12 Sep 2021
The hours you sleep mean more than you think
In a new study, researchers at Lund University and Uppsala University have seen a clear connection between how long a person sleeps and a number of biomarkers linked to cardiometab...
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13 Jul 2021
”The genetically upgraded EpiHealth cohort is a gold mine that could help more researchers excel”
A representative from the strategic research area (SRA) EpiHealth has talked to Martin L. Olsson, who is the faculty management representative of the EpiHealth board and Deputy Dea...
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14 Jun 2021
Read our EpiHealth Communications Strategy
The purpose of this communications strategy is to outline the approach we will take to ensure that existing research within the national and international communities are developed...
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27 May 2021
The EpiHealth cohort includes a biobank from which we can retrieve important research data
Professor Olle Melander has been awarded research support from SRA EpiHealth for the employment of a postdoc for the project “Translational epidemiological studies of the cardiomet...
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25 May 2021
The EpiHealth cohort gives us access to detailed information about environmental exposures and life style factors which are typically not available in other registers
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28 Apr 2021
New study shows that the screening tool (FIF) can prevent first-time injurious falls among older adults
Professor Sölve Elmståhl is co-author of the article Predictive Performance of the FIF Screening Tool in 2 Cohorts of Community-Living Older Adults which has been published in the ...
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11 Jan 2021
Welcome to Professor Åsa Westrin, new board member of Epihealth
We welcome Åsa Westrin as a new board member of EpiHealth. Åsa is a professor of psychiatry at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University.