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New unpublished results from KI and @KarolinskaUnsju shows that many with mild or asymptomatic #COVID19 show #tcell immunity to the new #coronavirus , even if they don’t have antibodies. This means #Immunity is probably higher than antibody tests suggest.

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Swedish study by KI researcher @ludvigsson shows severe #COVID19 in #children is rare - even with open schools. The findings also show no increased risk of severe COVID-19 in teachers. Published as a letter to the editor in @NEJM .

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The #NobelPrize 2022 in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

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Grattis @DrEmmaFrans , forskare vid KI, vetenskapsskribent och programledare, som tilldelats Konungens medalj av 8:e storleken i Serafimerordens band ”för betydelsefulla insatser för att sprida kunskap om vetenskap och forskning”. Läs mer:

Emma Frans tilldelas Konungens medalj av 8:e storleken

Emma Frans har blivit tilldelad Konungens medalj av 8:e storleken i Serafimerordens band ”för betydelsefulla insatser för att sprida kunskap om vetenskap och forskning”. Emma Frans är senior forskn...

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The #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

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The 2020 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”

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Wearing cloth #facemasks could help reduce the spread of viruses such as #SARSCoV2 , according to a literature review by researchers at KI and @McMasterU . "This evidence should be more than sufficient to recommend their use," KI's Juan Jesus Carrero says.

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KI researchers Simon Elsässer and Magda Bienko have been awarded 2022 ERC Consolidator Grants. 👏 The funds will support two ambitious basic research projects that aim to further our understanding of the complex nature of our cells. @ERC_Research #ERCCoG

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⚡️Press conference with Nobel Prize laureate #SvanteP ääbo at KI’s Nobel Forum. “It’s been overwhelming,” Pääbo says when asked about his experience receiving the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.

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“Our research group is obsessed with the Neanderthals since 20 years,” Professor Svante Pääbo told a packed auditorium at KI’s Aula Medica during his highly anticipated Nobel Lecture. #NobelPrize Photo: Erik Flyg

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BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.” @NobelPrize

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Combining eight #omics technologies, KI researchers have developed a web-based platform for researchers worldwide that provides a whole new insight into the human body at the cellular level. Published in @GenomeBiology . #multiomics #SingleCell Atlas

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In honour of Professor Hans Rosling, there will be a memorial ceremony open for public attendance

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KI professor @GoCasteloBranco and colleagues @Yale report in @Nature that they have developed a #SpatialOmics technology that can map simultaneously how #genes are switched on/off and how they are expressed in different areas of tissues and organs. #RNA

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A nasal spray with genetically engineered antibodies has the potential to protect the most vulnerable individuals from #COVID19 and possibly other infections, finds a new KI study on mice published in @PNASNews by @panhammarstrom et al. #SARSCoV2 #Vaccine

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Today the Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine 2019 delivered their Nobel Lectures in Aula Medica. Thanks, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, Gregg L. Semenza and William G. Kaelin Jr.! #NobelPrize

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KI has now received the test material for Covid-19 that will allow scientists to perform analyses on patient samples. The lab will soon be ready thanks to the swift cooperation of KI researchers and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

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The number of B cells greatly increases after bowel damage, preventing the tissue from healing, finds a new study in @ImmunityCP by @ejvillablanca at KI. This can be of significance to the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, #IBD . #Gastroenterology

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Prof. Kevin Eva is awarded the 2022 KIPRIME. He is Associate Director and Senior Scientist in the @ubcMedCHES , and Professor and Director of Educational Research and Scholarship at the @UBC . #amee2022

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Karolinska Institutet climbs in international ranking – 38th globally in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (last year 44) @ShanghaiRanking

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What a thrill! 😃Today KI and three other universities were recognized with the first ever EU Awards for Gender Equality Champions, marking #InternationalWomensDay . Congrats to fellow champions at @tcddublin , @MaynoothUni and @SETUIreland ! 👏

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Four major research projects at Karolinska Institutet are to receive project grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation @KAWstiftelsen this year

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Congratualtions Tomas Lindahl, Ph.D. from Karolinska Institutet!

The Nobel Prize

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BREAKING NEWS The 2015 #NobelPrize in Chemistry is awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar: http://t.co/mlgE5R2ZFc

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A new study published in @Cell_Metabolism by @mitopinionated at KI shows that supercomplexes have no major role in cellular energy production and that altered levels therefore are unlikely to affect physiology and disease. #mitochondria #metabolism

New study questions the role of supercomplexes in metabolism and disease

A new study published in Cell Metabolism by the research group of Professor Nils-Göran Larsson, at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, shows that so-called...

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Congratulations to KI researchers David Marlevi, Enric Llorens and Onur Dagliyan who have been awarded the 2022 ERC Starting Grant! In all, @ERC_Research will support 408 early-career researchers with EUR 636 million in this prestigious grant.

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New study in @Nature by Joanna Rorbach and Anas Khawaya @MolMet_KI visualizes in detail the machinery that the cells’ powerhouses, the #mitochondria , use to form their proteins. Collaboration with researchers at @Stockholm_Uni . #ribosomes

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In several parallel projects now published in @ScienceMagazine , @slinnarsson 's group at KI and colleagues @humancellatlas have created the most comprehensive atlases of human #brain cells to date, providing clues on different brain diseases. #neuroscience

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We soon have a new president! ⚡️The Swedish government today appointed Professor Annika Östman Wernerson, our former academic vice president for higher education, as president of KI. She will assume office on March 1, succeeding @ottersenolep .

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The #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”

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KI:s rektor @ottersenolep var en av flera som höll tal i samband med en demonstration till stöd för KI-alumnen Ahmadreza Djalali, som hotas av avrättning i Iran. #FreeDjalali @Free_Djalali @AmnestySverige @ScholarsAtRisk

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'A regrettable decision, made without any preceding dialogue with the universities and researchers, - says Annika Östman Wernerson, President of Karolinska Institutet, critisizing the Swedish government’s choice to stop all grants for development research

Government stops all development research grants

At its meeting of 22 June, the government made the decision to stop all grants disbursed by the Swedish Research Council itemised as development research, effectively pulling the plug on a great deal...

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KI researchers have identified a small neutralizing antibody, a so-called #nanobody , that has the capacity to block #SARS_CoV_2 from entering human cells and may play a role in future antiviral treatments against #COVID19 . @NatureComms @LeoHanke2

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Decades-long endurance #training alters the activity of genes in human skeletal muscle that are important for metabolic health, according to a study published in @CellReports by researchers at KI and the University of San Diego. #metabolichealth #Genetics

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A drug already tested against lung disease shows promising results in inhibiting early stages of #COVID -19 infection in cell cultures and engineered human tissue. Study by KI:s Ali Mirazimi and a team of intl researchers published in @CellPressNews .

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Congratulations to Assistant Professors Kasper Karlsson @KaspKarl and Juan Pablo Lopez @JPablo_Neuro for being awarded the prestigious @ERC_Research Starting Grants! 🙌 #ERCStG

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Three researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been awarded the ERC Starting Grant 2019

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KI researchers @meletislab @Carlenlab have identified a group of nerve cells in the mouse #brain that are sensitive to estrogen levels and that are involved in creating negative emotional states and chronic #stress . New study in @NatureNeuro . #neuroscience

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KI-researcher @Sciezgin et al. have created a new method of studying the smallest bioparticles in the body. The study, published in @NatureBiotech , has considerable scientific potential, such as in the development of more effective #vaccines .

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New study in @Nature led by @Yale ’s @RongFan8 and KI's @GoCasteloBranco describes a new technology for identifying which regions of the chromatin are accessible genome-wide in cells at specific locations in a tissue. #epigenetics

Spatial profiling of chromatin accessibility in mouse and human tissues

Nature - Spatial-ATAC-seq—spatially resolved chromatin accessibility profiling of tissue sections using next-generation sequencing—delineated tissue-region-specific epigenetic...

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Congratulations to KI Professors Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Maria Eriksson and Björn Högberg for being awarded ERC Advanced Grants! 👏 @gocastelobranco @ErikssonLab @bjorn_hogberg @ERC_Research #ERCAdG For more ➡️

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In a new study published in @NatMetabolism , KI researchers @ryden_mikael , @nikmej and others show how disturbances in the energy #metabolism in human fat cells can lead to the development of #inflammation and insulin resistance. #obesity

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Three researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been awarded the 2020 ERC Starting Grant @ERC_Research #ERCStG

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Hans Rosling föreläste och världen lyssnade

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Right now: @ottersenolep welcoming the Queens of Spain and Sweden during a state visit in Biomedicum, campus Solna. Central topic of the visit is rare diseases. @KarolinskaUnsju Photo: Sören Andersson

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Over 1,200 with rare diseases received a diagnosis thanks to the integration of large-scale genomics into Stockholm's healthcare system, constituting a major leap forward in the emerging field of #precisionmedicine . Results out in @GenomeMedicine .

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Study published in @ImmunityCP by KI researchers @TKreslavsky , @VassilisGlaros , @sebbeols and others identifies a ‘default’ pathway that generates early B lymphocyte memory to #vaccines and pathogens. Collaboration with @IMPvienna . #Immunology #Antibodies

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KI researcher @geosotiriou and others have developed a microneedle patch that delivers antibiotics locally in the skin to treat MRSA skin infections. New study published in Advanced Materials Technologies @AdvSciNews . #MedTech

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The first months of life are decisive for #ImmuneSystem development. Study in @CellCellPress by KI’s @BrodinPetter and others finds a connection between breast milk, beneficial gut bacteria and the development of the immune system. #Immunology #Pediatrics

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KI study published in @Ped_Research today shows that Infants whose mothers have used #snus during pregnancy run three times the risk of sudden infant death. All types of #nicotine products should be avoided during pregnancy, researchers say. #Pediatrics

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Att dela med sig av sin kunskap är viktigt. Men forskare har också ett särskilt ansvar att bygga sina argument på fakta och att vara tydliga även med vad man inte vet, konstaterar Jan Albert, professor i smittskydd vid Karolinska Institutet

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What would Hans Rosling say about the current pandemic? @OlaRosling , participating in the first annual Rosling seminar 6 October, together with @melindagates @DrTedros and others, contemplates in an interview:

Hello Ola Rosling, who will participate in the global health seminar 6 October

Hello Ola Rosling, who will participate in the first annual seminar this 6 October, held in the spirit of Hans Rosling. The seminar and panel discussion will centre around global health. What do you...

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. @lilithnersisyan @sushuch @pelechanolab at KI and @scilifelab report in @NatureMicrobiol that their method can detect whether or not #bacteria respond to #antibiotics within minutes. Spinoff company @3NBio will take it from bench to bedside to fight #AMR .

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Inauguration of Karolinska Institutet's new research facility Biomedicum

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A systematic review and meta-analysis published in @TheLancetEndo and involving researchers at KI, shows that #VitaminD supplementation protects against #respiratory #infections . This can be important for vulnerable groups. #infection

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KI researcher @BMartinHallberg and colleagues at KI, @embl and @CssbHamburg have identified a synthetic antibody that may prevent the new #coronavirus from infecting human cells. Study published today in @NatureComms . #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #antibodies

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Immediate skin-to-skin contact, before stabilisation, can reduce mortality by 25% in #newborn babies with a very low birth weight. Study in @NEJM , led by @WHO on the initiative of KI researchers Björn Westrup and Nils Bergman. #pediatric #globalhealth

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Soo Aleman, överläkare och docent vid Karolinska Institutet, har blivit utsedd av regeringen till nationell koordinator för kliniska studier om läkemedel mot covid-19 #covid19sverige #svmed #tillsammansmotcorona

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Grattis KI-forskaren @DrEmmaFrans , nominerad till Stora journalistpriset i kategorin Årets Röst! #storajournalistpriset

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Study in @CellRepMed by @BrodinPetter and others at KI, @scilifelab and @helsinkiuni identifies several cell types that play a key part in the immune response to the new #coronavirus and the hyperinflammation seen in severe cases of #COVID19 . #Immunology

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The 2018 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.”

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Skeletal muscle cells in #type2diabetes patients have a disrupted biological clock reports @JuleenRZierath , @DrBMGabriel and @_AliAltintas_ in @ScienceAdvances . Discovery could help fine-tune timing of interventions to treat type 2 diabetes.

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Study in @NatureMedicine finds new mechanism behind #ALS that indicates a hitherto unknown connection between the nervous and vascular systems. Study led by @LewandowskiSA at KI in collaboration with researchers at @scilifelab , @KTHuniversity and others.

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A new study on mice suggests that morning #exercise is more efficient at burning fat than evening exercise. The study is published in @PNASNews by @JuleenRZierath at KI and colleagues at @Metabolcenter and @UCPH_Research . #metabolism #obesity

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Many people were delighted to hear that Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine, particularly so Hugo Zeberg, researcher at Karolinska Institutet. He has collaborated with Svante Pääbo for years

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Mer än 10% av unga och tidigare friska personer som får svår #COVID19 har felriktade antikroppar som attackerar immunsystemet och ytterligare 3,5% har en genetisk mutation, rapporterar ett internationellt forskarlag, inkl @BrodinPetter , i @ScienceMagazine .

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Congratulations 😃🤩🥳

Max Planck Society

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Speechless! HAPPY! Pinching ourselves! #NobelPrize2022 in Physiology or Medicine😁🥳😃🙃🤗😊🤗🙃🥳😃😁😀 🥳😃😁😀🙃🤗😊😆🤣😆Svante Pääbo @MPI_EVA_Leipzig 😆😊🤗 @maxplanckpress 🙃😀😁😃🥳😃😀🙃🤗😊🤣😆🤣😊😊🤗🤗🙃🥳😀😆🤗😊🙃🥳😃😀😆😊🤗🙃🙂😄😲😀😁😃🥳🙃🤗😊🤗🙃🥳😃😁😀😲🥳😊 🥳

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Congratulations to Patrik Ernfors who recieves the ERC Advanced Grant for the third time! @ERC_Research

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New diagnostic test for #COVID ー19 can be performed without advanced lab equipment and deliver the result in half an hour, according to study by @pelechanolab at KI and researchers in China. Verification trials are underway. Published in @Clin_Chem_AACC .

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Even more reason to exercise: This study by KI researchers in @eLife explains why #exercise helps slow #cancer growth in mice. Physical activity changes the metabolism of cytotoxic #Tcells and thereby improves their ability to attack cancer cells.

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119 KI researchers receive in total SEK 541,913,333 from @Vetenskapsradet . The funding includes 90 project grants, 21 establishment grants, 6 consolidator grants and 2 grants for employment.

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Blood-nerve barrier discovery in the peripheral nervous system has implications for disease targeting and treatment. New study published in @JExpMed . Research by @o_harald , @Science_Hunt , @justZeri , @PainLab_KI et al.

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As air pollution in Stockholm has decreased, the lung capacity of children and adolescents has improved, a new study by @ErikMelen and @zhebin_yu published in the @ERSpublications reports.

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Vitamin C and other #antioxidants activate a mechanism that causes #cancer tumours to form new blood vessels, which can help them grow and spread, according to a KI study published today in @jclinicalinvest by Martin Bergö and colleagues. #nutrition

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Professor Jan Albert, professor of infectious disease control, especially virology, gives a lecture on the new coronavirus. What is the new coronavirus? When and how did it start, and how will it end? #COVID19 #tillsammansmotcorona

The new coronavirus, a lecture with Professor Jan Albert in April 2020

Professor Jan Albert lectures on the new coronavirus. The lecture was recorded on April 3, 2020 and is about the then known situation regarding COVID-19. Jan...

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Thanks for commenting. KI has not signed The Great Barrington Declaration. We share news about the latest findings from our researchers, including on Twitter. This study has gone through peer review and been published in one of the highest-ranked journals in the world.

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The previously communicated study on #tcell immunity to the new #coronavirus by @marcus_buggert and others at KI has now undergone peer review and been published as a pre-proof in @CellCellPress . Mild #COVID19 cases can produce strong T cell response.

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The ERC Advanced Grant, one of Europe’s most prestigious programmes for research financing, has been awarded to Ernest Arenas at Karolinska Institutet to tailor dopamine-producing brain cells for patients with Parkinson’s disease @ERC_Research #parkinsons

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KI’s 153 new doctors graduated tonight at a festive ceremony in the City Hall, celebrating their attainment of the highest academic degree possible. Congratulations to you all!

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Women vaccinated against HPV have a significantly lower risk of developing cervical cancer, and the positive effect is most pronounced for women vaccinated at a young age, according to a KI study published in @NEJM . #CervicalCancer #HPVvaccine

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Researchers from @aouadilab discovered a microRNA able to rewire key TCA cycle enzymes in livers of obese people. The findings published in Gastroenterology @AGA_Gastro shed a new light towards therapeutic treatment of #metabolic diseases.

Hepatic miR-144 Drives Fumarase Activity Preventing NRF2 Activation During Obesity

Hepatic miR-144 impairs the response to stress by exhausting the cells through excessive energetic metabolism in obesity.

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KI researcher has been awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant and 1.5 million € for his research on human cell-mediated immunity against virus diseases. #ERCStG @ERC_Research

He is awarded the ERC StG for research on killer T cells in body organs

KI researcher Marcus Buggert has been awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his research on human cell-mediated immunity against virus diseases. In all, the European Research Council through...

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KI Professor Rickard Sandberg has been awarded the Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorship in Medicine by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences @ScienceAcad_swe . The donation of SEK10m will support high-level basic research of the human genome. 🧬

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

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We are ready for @sciencemarchsthlm ! Are you? #marchforscience #sciencemarchsthlm

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

5 years

Nobel lectures with James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo in Aula Medica #nobelprize #nobelprizemedicine

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

4 years

Meet Gerald McInerney, one of KI's researchers searching for antibodies against the new #coronavirus . "I’m glad there are many researchers working on this—it would have been a lot more pressure if we were the only ones." #COVID2019

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

4 years

KI researchers, incl. @BReinius , have developed a method for fast, inexpensive and accurate testing for #COVID19 infection. The method simplifies and frees the testing from expensive reaction steps, enabling upscaling of the diagnostics. #CovidTesting

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

2 years

KI-Professor Birgitta Henriques Normark has been selected new President of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga vetenskapsakademien @vetenskapsakad ). She will succeed the present President, Dan Larhammar, on July 1st.

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

7 years

760 gram. Det väger den minsta hjärtstartaren som med hjälp av drönare kan transporteras till avlägsna platser och rädda liv.

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

2 years

Congrats to KI researcher Lu Yi, who is awarded an ERC Starting Grant for research on different subtypes of #depression . Her goal is to find better treatments that work for more people. @ERC_Research

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

2 years

Welcome to 21 professors and 13 adjunct professors who were celebrated during yesterday’s inauguration ceremony! 🎊🎓 Jorge Ruas was one of the professors who was honored for receiving an academic award🥇 Photo: Rickard Kilström

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

4 years

KI Professor Emeritus and infectious disease specialist Johan Giesecke comments on Sweden’s #COVID19 approach in @VanityFair . Even two weeks of lockdown would cause a lot of disruption to social and economic life, he says. #COVID19SWEDEN

Can You Beat COVID-19 Without a Lockdown? Sweden Is Trying

The Swedish experiment is to accept the coronavirus as a problem to be managed, rather than conclusively defeated. But will it mean more deaths?

www.vanityfair.com

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

4 years

KI researchers have discovered that degradation of the power plants of our cells plays an important role in the onset of mitochondrial disease in children, which can have severe consequences. Study published in @EmboMolMed by @mitopinionated . #CellBiology

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

4 years

KI-researchers @AouadiLab found a molecular pathway that when silenced could restore the normal function of immune cells in people with fatty liver disease. The findings may lead to new strategies for treating the condition. #obesity #NAFLD

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

4 years

Ny forskning som publiceras i @Nature visar att en viss bit DNA som medför upp till tre gånger ökad risk att drabbas av allvarlig covid-19 är nedärvd från neandertalare

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

3 years

Researchers from KI and @KTHuniversity have developed a new #antibiotic -free antibacterial gel for wounds. The gel kills drug-resistant bacteria and induces the body’s own immune responses to fight infections. In @J_A_C_S by @BraunerAnnelie , @LabMalkoch .

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

5 years

New pain organ discovered in the skin: "Our study shows that sensitivity to pain does not occur only in the skin's nerve fibres, but also in this recently-discovered pain-sensitive organ." @sciencemagazine

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

1 year

KI researchers @carljhartman and Xinsong Chen have developed a new method that should be able to predict whether a patient with #breastcancer will benefit from a particular treatment or not.

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

3 years

Congratulations to all our new professors who were installed at the annual inauguration ceremony yesterday 🎓 🙌🏼 🎉 @SerlachiusEva @ottersenolep

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

4 years

KI-forskaren Petter Brodin, @BrodinPetter , om mannen i Hongkong som efter 4 månaders sjukdomsfrihet återinfekterades av #COVID19 . "Han hade en mycket mildare infektion andra gången. Det är precis så vi vill att immunförsvaret ska fungera." @svtnyheter

Immunologen om corona-återsmittan: ”Inte så orolig”

Ett första bekräftat fall av återinfektion av covid-19 har påträffats hos en man i Hongkong. Men Petter Brodin, immunolog vid Karolinska institutet, är inte oroad. – Han hade en mycket mildare...

www.svt.se

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Karolinska Institutet

@karolinskainst

4 years

KI-researcher @BrodinPetter interviewed by @washingtonpost about #interferons , immune proteins that seems to play a role in #COVID19 infections. "“We know that individuals differ in their ability to mount an interferon response." #immunesystem

The coronavirus disarms the foot soldiers of the immune system. Scientists theorize that boosting...

Critical components of the immune system's early defense, called interferons, are missing in bad coronavirus cases.

www.washingtonpost.com

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