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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 data on the contacts and relationships between healthcare and patients who have died by suicide to map healthcare utilization and improve future preventative treatments for suicidal patients. Åsa is a professor of psychia
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 electronic informed consent. Johan Sundström is a professor of epidemiology at Uppsala University and executive board member of Epihealth. In addition to his research activities, Johan works part-time as a clinical card
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 treatments to provide patients relief from symptoms. Magnus is Associate professor at Respiratory Medicine, Allergology, and Palliative Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund Univers
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 factors such as income, education and/or occupation, have an impact on general recovery and outcome after surgery. -The results from my research show that patients with different socioeconomic backgrounds recover and be
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 technologies to investigate the multifactorial causes of ovarian cancer which include genetic, immunological, and environmental factors to optimize diagnosis, surgical planning, treatment, and care. -Ovarian cancer is a commo
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-early-detection-ovarian-cancer-cutting-edge-technologies - 2025-10-03
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 changes increase a person´s risk of catching diseases such as type 2 diabetes. She is also trying to develop epigenetic biomarkers that can forecast the development of disease, serve as an early health warning system, and b
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/i-put-together-lifelong-puzzle-epigenetics - 2025-10-03
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 research area EpiHealth. - EpiHealth is one of the reasons why I chose to move from Uppsala to do research at Lund University. The EpiHealth cohort and Swedish registers contain vast amounts of data and provide a unique fo
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-new-vice-coordinator-epihealth-christel-nielsen - 2025-10-03
8-9 September 2022 there was the yearly meeting, this year taking place in Lund. Presenters the first day were: Tove Fall, Uppsala University Lars Lind, Uppsala University Eva Warensjö Lemming, Uppsala University Joakim Ekström, Uppsala University Linda Dunder, Uppsala University Thoralph Ruge, Lund University Ashfaque Memon, Lund University Andrea Dell ’Isola, Lund University Suneela Zaigham, U
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/5th-swedish-meeting-cohort-studies - 2025-10-03
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 research they plan to conduct. Understanding cardiometabolic disease One of the grants goes to Dr Shafqat Ahmad, Researcher at the Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences. What is your research about? –
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/four-new-postdoctoral-positions-within-epihealths-uppsala-node - 2025-10-03
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 researchers in epidemiology through a call for project seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. A total amount of 1 000 000 SEK is
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 targeting national funding bodies. Lena Sandin Wranker, one of the recipients of the funding, is a research assistant, PhD, and a specialist physician in pain rehabilitation, at the Department of Clinical Sciences Malm
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/six-projects-epidemiology-will-get-seed-funding - 2025-10-03
Day one: Presentations of the major large Swedish cohorts. Status and a look forward. Day 2: Presentation of the 4 granted EpiHealth post-doc projects and more. See full program here
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 world. Andrea Dell’Isola, an associate professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University in Sweden, investigating the connection between osteoarthritis and metabolic diseases in a new research project. To
The applicants will be notified by mid-May 2024 at the latest. 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 preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. A total amount of 1 000 000 SEK is allocated to grant up to five
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/seed-funding-application-closed - 2025-10-03
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. Around 200 employees (researchers and other staff) are attached to the Epihealth network who work with epidemiological research to improve the understanding of the spread and etiology of both chronic and infectious diseases
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/research-space-postdoc-application-closed - 2025-10-03
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 and 1.2M SEK from eSSENCE@LU to hire an additional postdoc. What difference did the seed money make for you? And what will you do with the granted money?– The EpiHealth seed money helped me to set time aside to start wor
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/congratulations-dominik-dietler - 2025-10-03
Three researchers are granted 750 SEK times two years, and Hannah Brooke is one of them. Read about her project "Identification of novel circulating biomarkers for incident cancer and targets for prevention using large-scale metabolomics data" here! Every year, more than 60,000 individuals in Sweden are diagnosed with cancer. Earlier detection, improved risk prediction, and new prevention strategi
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/grants-epihealth-uppsala-node - 2025-10-03
Three Uppsala University researchers are granted 750 SEK times two years, and Olga Titova is one of them. Her project aims to clarify whether and how sleep and psychosocial factors are linked to the risk of specific incident CVDs and to explore the potential mechanisms using proteomics and metabolomics data. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of premature death and disability wor
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/big-congrats-olga-titova - 2025-10-03
Dag Leonard’s research group at Uppsala University has years of experience of autoimmune diseases genetic and epigenetic studies. In this project the connection between autoimmune disease polygenic risk and cardiovascular diseases will be analyzed in the general population using the EpiHealth cohort. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain the leading cause of mortality today in developed countries.
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/dag-leonard-has-received-one-uppsala-epihealth-grants-2024 - 2025-10-03
EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. One of the five recipients is Karl Gisslander. His project is about the rare but life-threatening disease anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated vasculiti
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/seed-money-karl-gisslanders-project-about-anca-associated-vasculitis - 2025-10-03
