Ole Petter Ottersen Ole Petter Ottersen has been president of KI for 5.5 years. On Feb. 28, he will be leaving his office for the last time. Of all he has seen and done, he remembers especially the day when the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. news.ki.se/ole-petter-ott…

Child obesity is linked to increased risk of developing diabetes in adulthood, both autoimmune forms of diabetes and different forms of type 2 diabetes, a study published in Diabetologia reports. Research by Yuxia Wei and @sofieaejcarlsson et alt. news.ki.se/childhood-obes…

Using so-called digital twins, researchers have now obtained a deeper understanding of the “off and on” proteins that control many diseases. The study published in Cell Reports Medicine can lead to more personalised drug therapies. Research by Swedish Digital Twin Consortium at KI. news.ki.se/digital-twin-o…

👋Meet the new president of Karolinska Institutet, Annika Östman Wernerson, a professor of kidney and transplant science who has a passion for pedagogy research. ➡️news.ki.se/kis-new-presid…

Congratulations to Päivi Östling Päivi Östling et al for landing a large grant from the Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsrådet. The funds will help to make available new technologies for clinical precision medicine studies. #precisionmedicine SciLifeLab news.ki.se/major-vr-grant…

KI Professor Rickard Sandberg has been awarded the Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorship in Medicine by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The donation of SEK10m will support high-level basic research of the human genome. 🧬 news.ki.se/rickard-sandbe…

Good news in time for #InternationalWomensDay! A global study led by IVI & incl. KI researchers will investigate the #HPV-burden in girls and women, helping to inform intervention and R&D priorities. With funding from Gates Foundation & Utrikesdepartementet. news.ki.se/funding-for-gl…

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 Trinity College Dublin, Maynooth University and South East Technological University! 👏 news.ki.se/ki-role-model-…

Young adults who live in highly polluted areas were more likely to suffer from #LongCovid compared to those living in areas with low levels of pollution, according to a new KI study in The Lancet Reg Health-Europe that was recently highlighted in The Conversation. theconversation.com/long-covid-lin…

A study published in Nature Communications suggests that ECT, lithium, and clozapine may reduce #suicide rates in adolescent men with severe mental illness, consistent with previous findings in adults. Research by Dr. Adrian Boström et. alt. news.ki.se/regional-ect-l…

Congratulations to Petter Brodin for receiving the first ever Olle Söder award! 👏 The Pediatric Research Foundation at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital cites his efforts to provide evidence-based knowledge about human defense mechanisms against infections like #COVID19. 🙌

A clinical study by researchers at KI and Karolinska Univ.sjuk shows that the hunger hormone ghrelin can increase the heart’s pump capacity in patients with #heartfailure. The results have been published in the European Heart Journal European Society of Cardiology Journals. news.ki.se/new-treatment-…

KI professor GonçaloCasteloBranco and colleagues Yale University 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 news.ki.se/new-technology…

Men who played #football (#soccer) in the Swedish top division until the mid 1900s had a higher risk of #dementia than men from the general population, a new study from KI researchers incl Peter Ueda and @dr_pasternak published in The Lancet Public Health reports. news.ki.se/higher-risk-of…

Congratulations to KI Professors Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Maria Eriksson and Björn Högberg for being awarded ERC Advanced Grants! 👏 @gocastelobranco Eriksson research lab @bjorn_hogberg European Research Council (ERC) #ERCAdG For more ➡️ news.ki.se/three-ki-resea…

I dag är det 7 år sedan Ahmadreza Djalali, som doktorerat vid KI, greps i Iran. KI och Akademiernas kommitté för mänskliga rättigheter vädjar i ett öppet brev till Sveriges regeringen om att pröva alla vägar för att få Djalali fri. Ulf Kristersson #FreeDjalali nyheter.ki.se/oppet-brev-til…

Many men suffer from the #VikingDisease, which means that fingers are locked in a bent position. Now researchers can show that three of the strongest risk factors of getting the disease are inherited from #Neanderthals, a study in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows. news.ki.se/the-viking-dis…

KI researchers Haipeng Li and Georgios A. Sotiriou have developed a cheap, fast and reproducible manufacturing process of #SERS nano-sensors for #FoodSafety diagnostics. New study in Chemical Engineering Journal shows that the sensors can detect #pesticides in fresh orange juice. doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.…

Do simple wounds or surgery enhance the skin cancer risk by expanding mutated cells even more as generally believed? The surprising answer is no, according to newly published study in nature by KI-researchers in collaboration with Yale School of Medicine. news.ki.se/harnessing-the…

What a great day on our #FossilFreeSteel journey as we started construction of our new fossil-free Nordic production system and the electric arc furnace at #SSABOxelösund in Sweden on Tuesday. 🌱⚙️ Thank you Ulf Kristersson Ulf Kristersson and others for sharing the event with us!