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Next generation quantitative magnetic resonance imaging for individualized radiotherapy
Research area: Cancer, Medical technology
Duration 2 February 2022
Type of project Research project
The Halo-study
Research area: Cancer
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
Targeting key enhancers to tackle cancer
Research area: Cancer
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
The pregnancy exposome and premenopausal breast cancer risk
Research area: Cancer
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Developing social network interventions in Nepal and Indonesia: the SNI-Links network
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Automated radiotherapy for paediatric oncology patients and the challenge of small datasets
Research area: Cancer, Computing science
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Duplicating the genome
Research area: Cancer, Molecular biology and genetics
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Strengthening social accountability for improving health system in Tanzania: how can health facility governing committees fulfil their role?
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Can community health workers contribute to strengthen health systems in Latin America?
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Molecular epidemiology studies toward precision prevention of colorectal cancer
Research area: Cancer
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
PAMP (PSMA, Acetate and Multiparametric MRI for Prostate cancer)
Research area: Cancer
Duration 1 January 2022
Type of project Research project
The Global Child Rights Dialogue during COVID-19: multi-country action research
Duration 1 December 2021 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
What are the implication of the COVID-19 pandemic for young people who are neither in employment, education nor training, and the societal initiatives that are in place to support them?
Research area: Public health and health care science, Social work
Duration 1 September 2021 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
Daring to ask about violence? Analysing and improving social services’ question-centred responses to gender-based violence
Duration 1 July 2021 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
Appropriate automation: Toward and understanding of robots and AI in the social services from an organizational and user perspective
Research area: Psychology
Duration 1 July 2021 until 30 June 2027
Type of project Research project
Digital support for parents of children in child health care - An evaluation of an intervention in primary care
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 16 April 2021 until 7 April 2023
Type of project PhD project
Leaving no one behind: intersectional health system equity in Sweden
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
The mental health and access to mental health care among the Sámi in Sweden
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
How can we support ‘NEET’ youth through neat interventions? A realist evaluation and implementation study of (re)engagement initiatives for young people not in employment, education or training
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Stigma-related emotions and their impact on self-management in people with COPD
Research area: Sociology
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
The type VI secretion system of Francisella tularensis – elucidation of its structure and assembly/disassembly control
Research area: Infection biology, Molecular biology and genetics
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Development of a new tularemia vaccine
Research area: Infection biology, Molecular medicine
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
Chromosomal Gene Regulatory Systems and Chromosome-Specific Adaptations
Research area: Molecular biology and genetics
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Promoting students’ key competences for making evidence-based decisions on controversial socio-scientific issues (EVIDENCE)
Research area: Educational sciences
Duration 1 December 2020 until 30 June 2023
Type of project Research project
Impact of national Covid-19-related policies on loneliness among elderly receiving elderly care
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 December 2020 until 30 June 2022
Type of project Research project
Support, empower and change: A qualitative study of the Young Women’s Empowerment Centers’ support and advocacy work
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 October 2020 until 30 September 2022
Type of project Research project
Long-term maternal morbidity after obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASIS) – The Post-OASIS-project
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 8 September 2020 until 31 December 2027
Type of project PhD project
Improving Cancer Immunotherapy – A Quantitative Model of Human T Cell Activation and Proliferation
Research area: Molecular biology and genetics
Duration 1 August 2020 until 2 August 2024
Type of project PhD project
The role of health communication and household’s habits in climate change mitigation
Duration 1 August 2020 until 30 September 2022
Type of project PhD project
Prostate cancer therapy for COVID-19
Research area: Clinical medicine, Molecular medicine
Duration 8 June 2020 until 31 May 2022
Type of project Research project
Artificial intelligence in oncology: European REVERT
Research area: Cancer, Clinical medicine, Computing science, Molecular medicine
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
How can young trans people’s mental health be improved? A participatory study
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
How does Integration of sexuality education in schools shape sexuality decisions among adolescents? A community based participatory research driven realist evaluation in Zambia
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
The BRECLIM trial
Research area: Cancer, Clinical medicine
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2029
Type of project Research project
Mapping the enhancer landscape in glioblastoma
Research area: Cancer
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
The tissue-destroying inflammation- Who is susceptible and how do we prevent or slow it down?
Research area: Odontology
Duration 1 January 2020 until 1 January 2025
Type of project Research project
Checkpoint mechanisms that safeguard the mitochondrial genome and their role in cancer development
Research area: Cancer, Molecular biology and genetics
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
The DIRECT-study - Disclosure of genetic risk to prevent cancer
Research area: Cancer, Philosophy and philosophy of science
Duration 2 September 2019 until 30 November 2023
Type of project Research project
Evaluating Implementation and Governance of Zambia’s Policy Response to Selected non-Communicable Diseases Risk Factors: A Policy and Systems Analysis Approach
Duration 15 July 2019 until 15 July 2023
Type of project PhD project
Social prescribing
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 July 2019 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Alcohol and Social Media use among university students in Uganda: Perceptions, patterns and experiences, and the feasibility of social media based interventions for alcohol prevention
Duration 1 February 2019 until 28 February 2023
Type of project PhD project
Exposures during fetal life can affect the risk of later life diseases
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Mitigating poverty and disablement in older age: Understanding the complex interactions of factors influencing equitable healthy ageing in Myanmar
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
Pathogenesis, diagnostics and treatment of transthyretin amyloidosis
Research area: Clinical medicine, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2019
Type of project Research project
Implementation of evidence-based practice in rural Sweden - Exploring innovative strategies for realization of national guidelines for treatment and support for people with schizophrenia
Research area: Public health and health care science, Social work
Duration 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
Health Outcomes and Resource Utilization for Bariatric Surgery: Real World Evidence from Sweden
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
Young immigrants’ sexual rights and their access to sexual and reproductive health care in Sweden
Duration 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2022
Type of project PhD project
Can mental health and health care be promoted among young prisoners in Cambodia? An intervention study
Duration 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2022
Type of project PhD project
Mechanism for regeneration of muskulotendinous tissue
Research area: Clinical medicine, Molecular biology and genetics, Molecular medicine, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2019
Type of project Research project
STAR-C: Sustainable behaviour change for health supported by person-Tailored, Adaptive, Risk-aware digital Coaching in a social context
Research area: Computing science, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 December 2018 until 30 November 2024
Type of project Research project
Risk of cardiovascular disease after spinal injury, a follow-up study
Research area: Clinical medicine, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 November 2018
Type of project Research project
The role of routine histology in the determination of cause of death in medico-legal autopsies
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 October 2018
Type of project Research project
Reaching older people with health promotion and preventive interventions – exploring effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a digital training program for fall prevention “the Safe step application”
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 9 September 2018 until 31 December 2022
Type of project PhD project
Perceptions of conflict management, association with mental health and quality of life among Swedish police officers
Research area: Educational sciences, Police science, Psychology
Duration 3 September 2018 until 6 November 2022
Type of project Research project
Dietitian Online (DiOn)
Research area: Food, Nutrition and Culinary Science
Duration 15 August 2018 until 14 June 2025
Type of project Research project
Oral health in children and adolescents - effects on oral microflora and dental caries with focus on genetic and dietary factors.
Research area: Clinical medicine, Odontology
Duration 1 January 2018
Type of project Research project
Health impacts of weather types in Sweden – the context of climatic and demographic change
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2018 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
MOvement control in STroke - clinical and laboratory assessments and in relation to brain imaging with fMRI (MOST study)
Research area: Neurosciences, Public health and health care science
Duration 6 November 2017
Type of project Research project
Population dynamics and socioeconomic well-being.
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 July 2017 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
HyPo: Preoperative fluid management and heart failure in non-cardiac surgery
Research area: Clinical medicine
Duration 31 January 2017 until 31 May 2023
Type of project Research project
Dimitriou Laboratory
Duration 2 January 2017
Type of project Research project
Stay in contact - supporting social concern and reducing loneliness among seniors who receive home care
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2017 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
The oral microflora of health and disease - a side study of the longitudinal NorthPop study
Research area: Clinical medicine, Odontology, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 September 2016
Type of project Research project
Patient-reported outcome measures in multimodal pain rehabilitation and participants´ experiences of stay at a patient hotel during the rehabilitation
Research area: Clinical medicine, Public health and health care science
Duration 14 January 2016
Type of project Research project
Effect of air pollutants on dementia and cognition
Research area: Psychology
Duration 1 January 2016 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project
Effects of early nutrition on brain development and cognitive/behavioural problems in children
Research area: Neurosciences, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2016 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Pioneering ultrasound imaging methods for neuromuscular diagnostics
Research area: Medical technology, Neurosciences
Duration 1 January 2016 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Lancet countdown 2030 on climate change and health
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2016 until 1 January 2030
Type of project Research project
Endodontics
Research area: Odontology
Duration 1 January 2016
Type of project Research project
Kognest
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 August 2015
Type of project Research project
Knee Function after ACL Injury - genetic predisposition, clinical and laboratory assessment and long term consequences.
Research area: Clinical medicine, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2015
Type of project Research project
Fatigue after traumatic brain injury
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 April 2014
Type of project Research project
The role of diet in diseases related to inflammation
Research area: Cancer, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2014 until 26 November 2030
Type of project Research project
Physical activity and sedentary behaviour during work and leisure time and related health effects
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2014 until 31 December 2026
Type of project Research project
Impress
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 December 2013
Type of project Research project
Neuromuscular injuries in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Research area: Clinical medicine, Molecular medicine
Duration 10 October 2013
Type of project Research project
VIPVIZA
Research area: Clinical medicine, Medical technology, Neurosciences, Odontology, Psychology, Public health and health care science
Duration 29 April 2013 until 31 December 2027
Type of project Research project
Cancer research - PI Hemmingsson
Research area: Cancer, Clinical medicine
Duration 1 January 2013
Type of project Research project
A model for prediction of tularemia outbreaks – relevance of climate change for future outbreaks
Duration 1 January 2013
Type of project Research project
Gene-lifestyle interactions in dental endpoints (GLIDE)
Research area: Odontology
Duration 1 January 2012
Type of project Research project
Oral microflora in children - importance and development in relation to caries and general health (OMIC)
Research area: Odontology
Duration 1 December 2011
Type of project Research project
How does Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans contribute to periodontitis - molecular mechanisms and characterization of virulent genotypes
Research area: Clinical medicine, Infection biology, Molecular medicine, Odontology
Duration 1 January 2011
Type of project Research project
Physicochemical properties of bacterial membranes and membrane vesicles
Research area: Chemical sciences, Infection biology, Materials science
Duration 1 January 2011
Type of project Research project
Surface analysis of microorganisms using cryo-XPS
Research area: Chemical sciences, Environmental chemistry, Infection biology, Materials science
Duration 1 January 2010
Type of project Research project
Mechanisms of scar-formation and degeneration in collagen-rich tissues
Research area: Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Clinical medicine, Molecular biology and genetics, Molecular medicine
Duration 1 July 2009
Type of project Research project
Context dependent adaptation of biting behaviors
Duration 1 January 2009
Type of project Research project
Sensory information in human motor control
Duration 1 January 2009
Type of project Research project
The type VI secretion system of Francisella tularensis
Duration 1 January 2008
Type of project Research project
Metal complexes with bacterial activity
Research area: Chemical sciences, Infection biology
Duration 1 January 2008
Type of project Research project
Biofilms on medical devices
Research area: Chemical sciences, Infection biology, Materials science
Duration 1 January 2008
Type of project Research project
The Salut Child-Health Intervention Programme
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 July 2006 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
Development of a tularemia vaccine
Duration 1 January 2006
Type of project Research project