Archive for June, 2008

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Background And History Of swedish Research

On November 1, 1999, an application for economic support of a 5-year programme on postgenomic research and technology in south-west Sweden (”Swegene”) was submitted to the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The signatories were the Rectors/Vice Chancellors and the Deans of the Medical and Natural Science faculties of Lund University/Lund Institute of Technology, Göteborg University [...]


The Swedish National Biobanking Program

Biobank and registry networking opens new possibilities for assessment of the effect of treatment and for identifying new molecular markers useful for selection of optimal treatment.
Population-based biobanks with samples taken many years ago are available in Sweden including material from many randomized treatment trials.A necessary refinement of the existing biobanks to enable large-scale and effective [...]


Resource & links of Swedish Research

Wallenberg Consortium North
http://www.wcn.se/
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
wallenberg.org/kaw/

Participating universities
Chalmers University of Technology
http://www.chalmers.se/
Chalmers bioscience
http://www.bioscience.chalmers.se/
Göteborg University
http://www.gu.se/


Research program on bioethics works in collaboration with Swegene and the Wallenberg Consortium North (WCN)

In collaboration with Swegene and the Wallenberg Consortium North (WCN)
Background
The national research programme on bioethics works in collaboration with Swegene and the Wallenberg Consortium North (WCN) and has separate funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. In this program, 18 scholars at seven Swedish universities study ethical problems in relation to genetic research and [...]