Medicine and health

Medical research affords knowledge of how the human body works and how illnesses are prevented, arise and are treated. The Research Council supports everything from research at molecular and cellular level and research involving animal experimentation and patients to epidemiological studies of groups of people.

The Research Council allocated around SEK 1,015 million by way of grants for research within medicine and health 2009.

Research portraits medicine and health

Genetic Causes of Type 2 Diabetes
– Meet Leif Groop
Professor Leif Groop, Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, has a Project Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council. Here you can read an interview with him.
Knowing More About the Blood-Brain Barrier Can Lead to New Stroke Treatment
– Meet Linda Fredriksson
Linda Fredriksson, MD, Karolinska Institutet, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research has a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swedish Research Council to conduct research at the University of Michigan Medical School. Here you can read an interview with her.
Databases a Keystone in Public Health Studies
– Meet Annika Rosengren
Professor Annika Rosengren, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Gothenburg, has a Project Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council. Meet her in an interview here.
Organizing a creative process
Meet Mathias Uhlén, professor of microtechnology, who is most known for his work of charting all human proteins.