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30 Jan 2024
Congratulations to Dominik Dietler!
Associate researcher Dominik Dietler has, thanks to Epihealth seed money, been granted postdoc funding for himself from MSB (The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) over 1.9M SEK a...
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11 Jan 2024
Research space for postdoc - application closed
The strategic research area Epihealth at Lund University hereby announces research space for two years (SEK 750,000/year including OH) corresponding to a postdoctoral position.
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10 Jan 2024
Seed funding - application closed
The applicants will be notified by mid-May 2024 at the latest.
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21 Jun 2023
We are getting older and heavier - osteoarthritis is increasing, interview with Andrea Dell’Isola
The number of patients with osteoarthritis has increased dramatically since the 1950s. Along with diabetes, the illness is now one of the fastest-growing endemic diseases in the wo...
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21 Jun 2023
Lunch to lunch conference: 6th Swedish Meeting for Cohort Studies, in Uppsala November 2023
Day one: Presentations of the major large Swedish cohorts. Status and a look forward.
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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
NOTE This call is closed, but there will be a new one soon. Check the webpage for new dates. Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researc...
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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...