By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 27 October 2021 Three researchers in the new research project will develop and evaluate applications that can be used to detect and combat pandemics with the help of AI, among other things. From left: Yana Litins'ka, Jonas Björk, Malin Inghammar. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter We have lived with the corona pan

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/ai-will-help-us-detect-future-pandemics - 2025-03-09

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 6 December 2021 Professor Åsa Westrin 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

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/new-national-medical-screening-database-helps-us-conduct-research-death-suicide - 2025-03-09

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 20 January 2022 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 exe

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/future-research-methods-can-benefit-use-apps-include-patients-perspectives-their-own-health - 2025-03-09

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 2 February 2022 Associate professor Magnus Ekström 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 pro

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/cross-linkage-and-analysis-large-registry-based-databases-help-us-conduct-research-breathlessness - 2025-03-09

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 1 March 2022 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 su

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/patients-low-socioeconomic-status-experience-more-symptoms-and-after-surgery-carpal-tunnel-syndrome - 2025-03-09

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 1 April 2022 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

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-early-detection-ovarian-cancer-cutting-edge-technologies - 2025-03-09

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 7 May 2022 Photo: Kennet Ruona 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 try

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/i-put-together-lifelong-puzzle-epigenetics - 2025-03-09

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 5 June 2022 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 Lu

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-new-vice-coordinator-epihealth-christel-nielsen - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 13 September 2022 Sölve Elmståhl, Lund University, opened the conference and welcomed all participants to Lund and two days of sharing knowledge and experiences within EpiHealth. 8-9 September 2022 there was the yearly meeting, this year taking place in Lund. Lars Lind, Professor at the Department of Medical Sciences,U

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/5th-swedish-meeting-cohort-studies - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 24 November 2022 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. Shafqat Ahmad. Understanding cardiometabolic disease  One of the grants goes to Dr Shafqat Ahmad

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/four-new-postdoctoral-positions-within-epihealths-uppsala-node - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 9 February 2023 Photo by Jen Theodore on Unsplash 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

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/call-proposals-seed-funding-preparing-application-and-research-plan-writing-research-area - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 25 April 2023 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,

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/six-projects-epidemiology-will-get-seed-funding - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 21 June 2023 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

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/lunch-lunch-conference-6th-swedish-meeting-cohort-studies-uppsala-november-2023 - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 21 June 2023 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, investigati

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/we-are-getting-older-and-heavier-osteoarthritis-increasing-interview-andrea-dellisola - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 10 January 2024 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 tar

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/seed-funding-application-closed - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 January 2024 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

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/research-space-postdoc-application-closed - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 January 2024 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 y

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/congratulations-dominik-dietler - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 April 2024 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 d

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/grants-epihealth-uppsala-node - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 May 2024 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.

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/big-congrats-olga-titova - 2025-03-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 15 May 2024 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. Cardio

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/dag-leonard-has-received-one-uppsala-epihealth-grants-2024 - 2025-03-09