27 million for research from the Cancer Foundation – Stockholm University

The Cancer Foundation’s research committee has awarded grants totaling SEK 887 million, of which SEK 718 million are for project grants. Of this, SEK 27 million has been awarded to nine, mostly three-year, research projects at Stockholm University. This is the largest total amount given to Stockholm University researchers from the Cancer Foundation. Stockholm University stands well in the competition. Only universities with medical faculties and university hospitals do better.

Project grants awarded

Department of Molecular Biology, Wenner-Gren Institute (MBW)

Christos Samakovlis. Cortical regulators of chromosomal instability in healthy and tumor epithelial tissues. 5 250 000 kr
Mark Friedlander. Discovery and characterization of cancer-specific small RNAs. 3 000 000
Christina Jonas. Protein degradation by mitochondrial LONP1 protease in cancer. 3 000 000
Qi Dai. Unraveling cell proliferation mechanisms in choroid plexus tumorigenesis. 2 400 000

Department of Biochemistry and Biology (DBB)

Matt Nilsson. Investigating the Coexistence of Cancer and T-Cell Clones in Breast Cancer Tumors by In Situ Sequencing. 3 750 000 kr
Paul Stenmark. Structural and biochemical studies of enzymes within nucleotide metabolism and DNA repair and development of inhibitors targeting them. 3 750 000
David Drew. Structural basis of PET tracer recognition and inhibition in glucose transporters (GLUT). 1 600 000
Einar Hallberg. Chromatin organization and differentiation in cancer. 1 200 000

Physics

Juliana Livia Dasu. Personalized radiotherapy for glioma patients – from target definition to selection of treatment modalities and dose planning. 3 000 000 kr

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