Interdisciplinary research projects on everything from narwhal tusks to asylum policy and pandemic history are delivering game-changing results for the Nordics. This is the conclusion from committee head Jan Philip Solovej.
Combined with insights into the social, environmental, economic and demographic context, our effort will yield a deep quantitative understanding of past pandemics that will allow us to draw a detailed picture of pandemic and epidemic diseases in the pre-modern era.
The Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE) Initiative on Food, Nutrition and Health is a joint effort to enhance the scientific quality and international visibility of Nordic research within this field.
Funding is expected to be provided for up to eight research and innovation projects. The decision regarding which projects will be awarded funding will be taken in late autumn 2020.
Family members and close friends of people with COVID-19 have elevated symptoms of depression and anxiety, a study from Karolinska Institutet published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe reports.
The success of this project may enable the development of actionable, personalised interventional strategies to slow down ageing and prevent/delay age-predisposed diseases.
The aims of the ALLTogether study are to improve survival and quality of survival for children and young adults with ALL. ALL in young people has excellent outcome with >90% survival in children and about 75% in young adults. However, patients still die of diseases after relapse as a result of under-treatment.
